2024-25 Bravo 2 (Oct 10 - Oct 27)

The Orchestra 2024/25 SEASON

VIOLIN 1

Juliana Athayde+, Concertmaster

The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair, funded in perpetuity

Shannon Nance, Assistant Concertmaster

Jeongwon Claire An Tigran Vardanyan

James Zabawa-Martinez

Thomas Rodgers

Anna Leunis

Molly McDonald

Kurt Munstedt

Perrin Yang

Jeremy Hill

An-Chi Lin

VIOLIN 2

Jeanelle Thompson, Principal

The Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz Chair, funded in perpetuity

Daryl Perlo, Assistant Principal

The James E. Dumm Chair, funded in perpetuity

Patricia Sunwoo

John Sullivan

Lara Sipols

Sooyeon Kim

Petros Karapetyan

Liana Koteva Kirvan

Margaret Leenhouts

Heidi Brodwin

Ellen Stokoe

VIOLA

Joshua Newburger, Principal

The William L. Gamble Chair, funded in perpetuity

Marc Anderson, Assistant Principal

Rebecca Christainsen

James Marshall

Olita Povero

Neil Miller

Melissa Matson

Ye In Son

David Hult

CELLO

Ahrim Kim, Principal

The Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Chair, funded in perpetuity

Lars Kirvan, Assistant Principal

Samuel Pierce-Ruhland

Christopher Haritatos

Benjamin Krug

Jennifer Carpenter

Ingrid Bock

BASS

Cory Palmer, Principal

The Anne Hayden McQuay Chair, funded in perpetuity

Michael Griffin, Assistant Principal

Daniel Morehead

Edward Castilano

Fred Dole

Jeff Campbell+

Eric Polenik

FLUTE

Rebecca Gilbert, Principal

The Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair, funded in perpetuity

Sean Marron

Elise Kim

PICCOLO

Sean Marron

Elise Kim

OBOE

Erik Behr, Principal

The Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Chair, funded in perpetuity

Anna Steltenpohl

Megan Kyle

ENGLISH HORN

Anna Steltenpohl

CLARINET

Kenneth Grant, Principal

The Robert J. Strasenburgh Chair, funded in perpetuity

Kamalia Freyling

Andrew Brown

E-FLAT CLARINET

Kamalia Freyling

BASS CLARINET

Andrew Brown

BASSOON

Matthew McDonald, Principal

The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair, funded in perpetuity

Karl Vilcins

Martha Sholl

CONTRA-BASSOON

Karl Vilcins

HORN

Michael Stevens, Principal

The Cricket and Frank Luellen Chair

YiCheng Gong, Associate/Assistant/Utility

Maura McCune Corvington

Nathan Ukens

Stephen Laifer

TRUMPET

Douglas Prosser, Principal

The Elaine P. Wilson Chair, funded in perpetuity

Wesley Nance

Herbert Smith

Paul Shewan

TROMBONE

David Bruestle, Principal

The Austin E. Hildebrandt Chair, funded in perpetuity

Lisa Albrecht

Jeffrey Gray

BASS TROMBONE

Jeffrey Gray

TUBA

W. Craig Sutherland, Principal

The Rob W. Goodling Chair, funded in perpetuity

TIMPANI

Charles Ross, Principal

The Harold and Joan Feinbloom Chair, funded in perpetuity

PERCUSSION

Brian Stotz

The Barbara and Patrick Fulford Chair, funded in perpetuity

HARP

Grace Browning, Principal

The Eileen Malone Chair. A Tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt M. Sylvester

Rosanna Moore

KEYBOARD

Chiao-Wen Cheng+, Principal

The Lois P. Lines Chair, funded in perpetuity

PERSONNEL MANAGER

Fred Dole

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN

Kimberly Hartquist

Kathalee & Ian Hodge Library

Operation Endowment

STAGE MANAGERS

Danielle Suhr

Cederick Martinez

+ Eastman faculty

ANDREAS DELFS Music Director

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 24/25 season marks a milestone for Music Director Andreas Delfs, whose debut with the RPO was November 17, 1994. Many return appearances and more than 25 years later, Maestro Delfs was announced as the RPO’s 13th music director in January 2021.

Since then, Delfs has been pivotal in leading the orchestra out of the depths of the pandemic through the RPO’s history-making 23/24 Centennial Season: breaking box-office records with blockbuster programming and A-list special guests, while also climbing to new artistic heights with world-premiere commissions and acclaimed community collaborations.

Not one to rest on the laurels of those successes, Delfs is using them to inspire the orchestra to thrive into its second century. “You always have to move forward,” he explained. “And the only way to follow a breath-taking anniversary season is to build on its momentum.”

Born in Flensburg, Germany, Delfs began studying piano and music theory at age five. By 20, he became the youngest music director in the history of the Hamburg University Orchestra. Following graduation from Hamburg Conservatory, he followed the recommendation of legendary German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, and took off for New York, where he earned his master’s degree at Juilliard School of Music, studying under such legendary conductors as Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling, and Leonard Bernstein.

Delfs soon landed posts at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO). He served as general music director of Hannover, Germany, conducting the city’s renowned symphony orchestra and opera company.

As music director and conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Delfs led the orchestra on its historic 1999 tour of Cuba, the first by an American orchestra in more than 37 years. During his tenure at the Milwaukee Symphony, he was instrumental in the symphony’s rise to national prominence.

Andreas Delfs has led scores of distinguished ensembles such as the London Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chinese National Symphony Orchestra. He has partnered with world-renowned artists including Philip Glass, André Watts, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, and Renée Fleming.

His passionate and dramatic interpretations of the late romantic repertoire with orchestras in both North America and Europe have drawn critical acclaim, reflecting a constantly evolving artistic maturity marked by the insight, depth and integrity he brings to the podium.

While Delfs’ approach to conducting has been forged by decades of experience, his love of new music is undeniable. Over the last two seasons alone, he has overseen RPO commissions by such highly regarded composers as Derrick Skye, Roberto Sierra, James Lee III, and Aaron Jay Kernis.

He and wife Amy live east of Rochester in the hamlet of Pultneyville, surrounded by their children, a grandchild, and Casper the Spitz.

PHOTO:ALEXCASSETTI

Our Conductors

JEFF TYZIK Principal Pops Conductor

Grammy Award winner Jeff Tyzik is one of America’s most innovative and sought after pops conductors. Tyzik is recognized for his brilliant arrangements, original programming, and engaging rapport with audiences of all ages. Tyzik is celebrating 31 years as Principal Pops Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and also serves as Principal Pops Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Oregon Symphony. Tyzik made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in September 2023 and closed the 23/24 season conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Frequently invited as a guest conductor, Tyzik has appeared with over 100 orchestras including the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, New York Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In May 2007, the Harmonia Mundi label released his recording of works by Gershwin with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and the RPO which stayed in the Top 10 on the Billboard classical chart for over three months. Alex Ross of The New Yorker called it “one of the snappiest Gershwin discs in years”.

In 2023, Jeff Tyzik launched his new publishing company TyzikMusic.com. This digital site features over 150 arrangements, orchestrations and compositions for Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music ensembles, and Wind Ensemble.

Committed to performing music of all genres, Tyzik has collaborated with such diverse artists as Leslie Odom Jr., Megan Hilty, Chris Botti, Matthew Morrison, Wynonna Judd, Sutton Foster, Tony Bennett, Art Garfunkel, Dawn Upshaw, Marilyn Horne, Arturo Sandoval, The Chieftains, Mark O’Connor, Doc Severinsen, and John Pizzarelli. He has created numerous original programs that include the greatest music from jazz and classical to Motown, Broadway, film, dance, Latin, and swing. Tyzik holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music.

With co-producers Greenberg Artists and Schirmer Theatrical, Jeff Tyzik has created 20 new orchestra pops programs that have been presented by 150 orchestras in the past three seasons.

For more information about Jeff Tyzik, please visit www.TyzikMusic.com

CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Conductor Laureate

The Christopher Seaman Chair, supported by Barbara and Patrick Fulford and The Conductor Laureate Society

Christopher Seaman was music director of the RPO from 1998-2011, and was subsequently named conductor laureate. During his 13-year tenure, the longest in RPO history, he raised the Orchestra’s artistic level, broadened its audience base, and created a new concert series. This contribution was recognized with an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. In May 2009, the University of Rochester made him an honorary doctor of music.

Previous positions include music director of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (Florida) for 10 years, conductor-in-residence with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and artistic advisor of the San Antonio Symphony.

He is recognized for his wealth of repertoire, which ranges from baroque to contemporary, and in particular the works of Bruckner, Brahms, and Sibelius. Seaman also is highly regarded for his work with younger musicians, and he served as course director for the Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program (Australia) for many years.

Recent conducting engagements include the Aspen Music Festival, Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Seattle symphony orchestras; the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Kristians Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, and Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil. He frequently visits Australia and Asia where he has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Singapore symphony orchestras, among others.

JHERRARD HARDEMAN Assistant Conductor

The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Education and Community Engagement Chair Jherrard Hardeman begins his second season with the RPO as Assistant Conductor (The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Education and Community Engagement Chair). Hardeman serves as Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (RPYO).

A rising star in the symphonic world, Hardeman leads the RPO’s signature OrKIDStra family series, education concerts at Kodak Hall, concerts for the community and beyond, and our July summer series.

By his mid-teens, Detroit native Hardeman was already attracting national attention as a classical conductor, composer, and violinist. He studied orchestral conducting under internationally renowned conductor David Robertson at The Juilliard School. Hardeman notes he cannot overstate the importance of mentorships by conductors

Mei-Ann Chen, Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, and Kevin Noe, Executive Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.

Hardeman has appeared with the Seattle Symphony, Grosse Pointe Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and the Longy Conservatory Orchestra. An innate leader, he has also formed and/or conducted orchestras at such prestigious institutions as the New England Conservatory of Music, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and the AVANTI Summer MusicFest.

RPO Board of Directors

Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Founded in 1923 —Incorporated in 1930)

OFFICERS

Diana Clarkson, Esq., Chair of the Board

Curtis S. Long, President & CEO

Cindy Yancey, Vice Chair of the Board

Kathy Lindahl, Vice Chair of the Board

Karen Kessler, Secretary

Richard Stein, Treasurer

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq., Immediate Past Chair

TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2025

James Fulmer

Laurie A. Haelen

Ralph F. Jozefowicz. M.D.

Karen Kessler

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.

Deborah Onslow

Ronald E. Salluzzo

Jason Thomas

TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2026

Daisy R. Algarin

Diana Clarkson, Esq.

George Daddis

Catherine Frangenberg

Allyson Hiranandani

Dr. Diane Lu

Sujatha Ramanujan

Elizabeth F. Rice

Dr. Eva P. Sauer

George J. Schwartz, M.D.

Richard Stein

Thomas Warfield

Dr. James Watters

TERM EXPIRES

JUNE 2027

Brian Bennett

Kimberly Gangi

Catherine Gueli

Emerson Fullwood

Paulette Gissendanner

Zuzanna Kwon

Katherine Lindahl

Jack McGowan

Sidney Sobel, M.D.

Cindy Yancey

EX-OFFICIO

Patrick Fulford

Chairperson, Honorary Board

Lars Kirvan

Orchestra Representative

Erik Behr

Orchestra Representative

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq., Immediate Past Chair

Curtis S. Long

President & CEO

Kate Sheeran

Dean, Eastman School of Music

HONORARY BOARD

Patrick Fulford, Chairperson, Honorary Board

Stephen B. Ashley

Nancy Beilfuss*

James M. Boucher

Paul W. Briggs*

William L. Cahn

Louise Epstein

Joan Feinbloom

Ilene Flaum

Betsy Friedman

Ronald A. Furman*

Mary M. Gooley*

Suzanne Gouvernet*

David C. Heiligman

A. Thomas Hildebrandt

Harold A. Kurland, Esq.

Dr. Dawn F. Lipson

Jacques M. Lipson, MD*

Cricket and Frank Luellen*

Elizabeth F. Rice

Nathan J. Robfogel, Esq.

Jon L. Schumacher, Esq.

Katherine T. Schumacher

Betty Strasenburgh*

Josephine S. Trubek

Suzanne D. Welch

Patricia Wilder*

Deborah Wilson

Robert Woodhouse

The RPO expresses its gratitude to all those who have served as Honorary Board members in the past.

PAST RPO CHAIRPERSONS

1930–32: Edward G. Miner*

1932–34: Simon N. Stein*

1934–38: George E. Norton*

1938–41: Leroy E. Snyder*

1941–42: Frank W. Lovejoy*

1942–43: Bernard E. Finucane*

1943–46: L. Dudley Field*

1946–48: Edward S. Farrow, Jr. *

1948–51: Joseph J. Myler*

1951–52: Joseph F. Taylor*

1952–55: Raymond W. Albright*

1955–57: Arthur I. Stern*

1957–59: Thomas H. Hawks*

1959–61: Walter C. Strakosh*

1962–63: Ernest J. Howe*

1963–65: O. Cedric Rowntree*

1965–67: Frank E. Holley *

1967–69: Thomas C. Taylor*

1969–71: Thomas H. Miller*

1971–72: Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens*

1972–73: Edward C. McIrvine

1973–74: Robert J. Strasenburgh*

1974–75: John A. Santuccio

1975–76: Robert J. Strasenburgh*

1976–78: Dr. Louis Lasagna*

1978–80: Edward C. McIrvine

1980–82: Peter L. Faber

1982–84: Paul F. Pagerey*

1984–85: Peter L. Waasdorp*

1986–89: Robert H. Hurlbut*

1989–91: Paul W. Briggs*

1991–93: Karen Noble Hanson*

1993–95: Ronald E. Salluzzo

1995–98: A. Thomas Hildebrandt

1998–00: Harold A. Kurland, Esq.

2000–04: David C. Heiligman

2004–06: Ingrid A. Stanlis

2006–09: James M. Boucher

2009–11: Suzanne D. Welch

2011–13: Elizabeth F. Rice

2013–15: Dr. Dawn F. Lipson

2015-17: Jules L. Smith, Esq.

2017-19: Ingrid A. Stanlis

2019-24: Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.

* Deceased

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7:30 PM SAT OCT 12

8 PM

KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE

Andreas Delfs, conductor

For Andreas Delfs’ biography, please see page 5. Natasha Paremski, piano

MISSY MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Sphere) 9:00

DMITRI Piano Concerto No. 2 20:00

LUDWIG VAN Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” 40:00 BEETHOVEN

I. Allegro ma non troppo (“Joyful Feelings Upon Arriving in the Country”)

II. Andante molto mosso (“By the Brook”)

III. Allegro (“Peasant Merrymaking”)

IV. Allegro (“The Thunderstorm”)

V. Allegretto (“The Shepherd’s Song After the Storm”)

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NATASHA PAREMSKI, piano

With her consistently striking and dynamic performances, pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and profound interpretations. She continues to generate excitement from all corners as she wins over audiences with her musical sensibility and a powerful, flawless technique.

Natasha is a regular return guest of many major orchestras, including Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Grant Park Festival, Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with whom she has performed and toured frequently since 2008 in venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Cadogan Hall. She has performed with major orchestras in North America including Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, NAC Orchestra in Ottawa, Nashville Symphony. She has toured extensively in Europe with such orchestras as Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vienna’s Tonkünstler Orchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre de Bretagne, the Orchestre de Nancy, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester in Zurich, Moscow Philharmonic, under the direction of conductors including Thomas Dausgaard, Peter Oundjian, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Jeffrey Kahane, James Gaffigan, JoAnn Falletta, Fabien Gabel, Rossen Milanov and Andrew Litton. In addition, she has toured with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica in Latvia, Benelux, the United Kingdom and Austria as well as appearances with National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in Taipei.

Natasha has given recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Wigmore Hall, Schloss Elmau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Verbier Festival, San Francisco Performances, Seattle’s Meany Hall, Kansas City’s Harriman Jewell Series, Santa Fe’s Lensic Theater, Ludwigshafen BASF Series, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Tokyo’s Musashino Performing Arts Center and on the Rising Stars Series of Gilmore and Ravinia Festivals.

A passionate chamber musician, Natasha is a regular recital partner of Grammy winning cellist Zuill Bailey, with whom she has recorded a number of CDs. Their Britten album on Telarc debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, remaining there for a number of weeks, in addition to being featured on The New York Times Playlist. She has been a guest of many chamber music festivals such as Jeffrey Kahane’s Green Music Center ChamberFest, the Lockenhaus, Toronto, Sitka Summer Music, and Cape Cod Chamber Music festivals to name a few.

Natasha began her piano studies at the age of four with Nina Malikova at Moscow’s Andreyev School of Music. She then studied at San Francisco Conservatory of Music before moving to New York to study with Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music, from which she graduated in 2007. Natasha made her professional debut at age nine with El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At the age of fifteen she debuted with Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born in Moscow, Natasha moved to the United States at the age of eight, becoming a U.S. citizen shortly thereafter, and is now based in New York City where she is Artistic Director of the New York Piano Society, a non-profit organization that supports pianists whose professions lie outside of music.

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PROGRAM NOTES

MISSY MAZZOLI

Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

B. LANSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA

October 27, 1980

Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) is music in the shape of a solar system, a collection of rococo loops that twist around each other within a larger orbit. The word “sinfonia” refers to baroque works for chamber orchestra but also to the old Italian term for a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument with constant, wheezing drones that are cranked out under melodies played on an attached keyboard. It’s a piece that churns and roils, that inches close to the listener only to leap away at breakneck speed, in the process transforming the ensemble turns into a makeshift hurdy-gurdy, flung recklessly into space. Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and later expanded for a concert with the Boulder Philharmonic.

— Missy Mazzoli

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH

Second Piano Concerto, Op. 102

B. S. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA September 25, 1906

D. MOSCOW, RUSSIA August 9, 1975

Writing music under the watchful eye of the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin, Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich was under tremendous pressure to conform to socialist realism, a political doctrine that artistic production should idealize life in the Soviet Union. His music largely appeased the Stalinist regime, with only a couple of works that caught the ire of the government. Debates continue today about whether Shostakovich wrote music—with its soviet themes and political marches—to be politically advantageous or whether there are hidden messages of dissent to be found within his works, which are full of extremes and biting sarcasm. But following Stalin’s death, some of Shostakovich’s music took on a lighter quality, perhaps a sign of a composer finally able to let down his guard.

Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto, which premiered in 1957, only four years after Stalin’s death, demonstrates some of that unburdening. It was a gift for his son Maxim’s 19th birthday, something for Maxim to play for his qualifying exams at the Moscow Conservatory. Dmitry supposedly embedded several inside jokes that would’ve given Maxim a chuckle. One we know of is the scale-like figures of the concerto’s final movement, which recalls a famous book of piano exercises, Hanon’s The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises. A standard method for pianists in Russian conservatories, Dmitry surely heard his son practicing the book’s finger-busters over the years. Pianists in the audience will also be familiar.

The concerto is joyful and optimistic and written to cater to the developing skills of young pianists. Dmitry insisted that the work “has no redeeming artistic merits,” perhaps more indicative of Dmitry’s self-deprecation than a serious take, given that he also performed his concerto several times. Listeners might recognize the English tune “What Shall We Do With a Drunken Soldier?” in the march-like first movement, although we don’t know if that tune was quoted purposefully. But the second movement makes it hard to think Dmitry wrote the concerto flippantly: it rivals any piano concerto’s slow movement for its sentimental beauty. The work has endured as an audience favorite.

PROGRAM NOTES

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 (1808)

B. BONN, GERMANY December 17, 1770

D. VIENNA, AUSTRIA March 26, 1827

Roaring brooks, bird calls, and passing thunderstorms––few works are as evocative of a place in Beethoven’s oeuvre than his Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale.” Beethoven frequently visited the countryside of Vienna, drawn to the solace of the country in the wake of his hearing loss. He named each picturesque movement after a countryside scene: “Awakenings of Happy Feelings Upon Arriving in the Country,” “Scene by a Brook,” “Joyful Gathering of the Country Folk,” “Thunder. Storm,” and “Shepherds’ Song: Happy and Thankful Feelings After the Storm.”

Note that those descriptions point to a symphony of five movements instead of four, the standard number of movements in the symphony genre. Additionally, the last three movements are played without a pause. This symphony was written during Beethoven’s heroic period, a middle period of 10 years in Beethoven’s life when he gained more confidence to experiment with classical genres. During this period, Beethoven’s works began to move the needle from Classical balance and clarity to the heightened expression and excesses of the Romantic period. Although the subject matter of the sixth gives this symphony an outward feeling of simplicity, its natural themes are a calling card of Romanticism. Nature was one of the gateways to the sublime, and Beethoven’s symphony certainly has such Romantic aspirations. Despite the programmatic titles, Beethoven wrote on the score, “More the Expression of Feeling than Tone Painting.”

After a cheerful and serene opening movement in sonata form that would easily conjure up feelings of the countryside without Beethoven’s thematic indications, the strings imitate water flowing down a brook in the second movement Andante molto mosso, ending with bird calls in the woodwinds. Specific birds are written right into the score: the flute is the nightingale, the oboe is the quail, and the clarinets are the coo-coos. The third movement is a scherzo in which the games of the country folk can be heard in horn calls and off-kilter melodies in the woodwinds. The interrupting trio section of the scherzo is a rolling hoedown. A storm brews in the fourth movement, the only movement to feature the thunderous timpani. The storm dissipates into the fifth and final movement, where the clarinet and horn seem like shepherd calls, declaring clear skies ahead. A golden sun finally breaks through, and the movement reaches a happy and comforting conclusion.

Program notes by Anna Reguero, PhD, a Rochester-based arts writer and music scholar.

Ernest Richardson, conductor

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ERNEST RICHARDSON, conductor

Ernest Richardson is in high demand as conductor, composer, arranger, organizational leader, and inspirational speaker. His versatility finds him within one season conducting Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite or Broadway artists in the works of Leonard Bernstein, a live-to-movie production of Harry Potter, facilitating strategic decision making for leading arts organizations, or training young musicians.

He has been at the forefront of symphonic video/live music productions, conducting live-tomovie scores of Harry Potter with Cine Concerts, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean, Singing in the Rain, the Charlie Chaplin silent film The Gold Rush, to name a few, and most recently Star Wars: A New Hope.

Richardson is presently the Principal Pops Conductor and Resident Conductor of the Omaha Symphony. Since 1992, he has laid the groundwork for and led in the development of the Omaha Symphony’s successful Symphony Pops and the vaunted education and community engagement programs. He also holds the position of music director and principal conductor of the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra. Under his leadership the organization has grown from a community orchestra to a resident professional orchestra, attracting the area’s finest musicians. A recipient of the 2016 Nebraska Governor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Arts Education, Richardson has encouraged and supported countless young musicians as the founding Artistic Director and CEO of the innovative Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory.

In addition to conducting, Richardson is an accomplished composer and arranger, strategic planning facilitator, and occasional violist. He enjoys working with singers and choral ensembles. He has been known to help his sons build award-winning pinewood derby cars and craft his own batons. An avid fly fisherman, he has also earned a black belt in tae kwon do. He lives in Omaha with his wife and children.

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ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, composer

Alexandre Desplat, born on August 23, 1961, in Paris, France, is a prolific composer known for his orchestral film scores that draw from a wide range of influences including Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Bernard Herrmann, and jazz and world music. His full name is Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat.

His musical journey began at a young age. He started playing the piano at five, picked up the trumpet later on, and then switched to the flute at nine. His parents, both students at the University of California, Berkeley, introduced him to a wide variety of music. He developed an early appreciation for film music, collecting Bernard Herrmann’s Hitchcock soundtracks as a teen. This love for film music was further ignited when he heard John Williams’s Star Wars score in 1977. Other early sources of Desplat’s inspiration include the music of Maurice Jarre, Nino Rota, and Georges Delerue.

Desplat studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Claude Ballif, and also took a summer course under Iannis Xenakis. He furthered his studies under Jack Hayes in Los Angeles. At the age of 20, after leaving the Conservatoire, he joined a theatrical troupe where he wrote and played music. His journey into film scoring began in the 1990s, and his big break in Hollywood came in 2003 with the soundtrack for the film “Girl with a Pearl Earring”.

His career has spanned over four decades, during which he has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. He was made an Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres both in 2016. Some of his notable works include the scores for “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), “The Shape of Water” (2017), “The Queen” (2006), “The King’s Speech” (2010), “Argo” (2012), “The Imitation Game” (2014), and the final two films in the Harry Potter series.

Desplat’s sophisticated orchestrations and his ability to seamlessly blend different musical styles have made him a sought-after composer in the film industry, contributing to both low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters.

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT

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JUSTIN FREER, president/founder/producer, CineConcerts

American composer/conductor Justin Freer was born and raised in Huntington Beach, CA. He has established himself as one of the West Coast’s most exciting musical voices and is a highly sought-after conductor and producer of film music concerts around the world. Freer began his formal studies on trumpet, but quickly turned to piano and composition, composing his first work at eleven and giving his professional conducting debut at sixteen.

Continually composing for various different mediums, he has written music for world-renowned trumpeters Doc Severinsen and Jens Lindemann and continues to be in demand as a composer and conductor for everything from orchestral literature to chamber music around the world.

He has served as composer for several independent films and has written motion picture advertising music for some of 20th Century Fox Studios’ biggest campaigns including Avatar, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Aliens in the Attic. As a conductor Freer has appeared with some of the most well known orchestras in the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He is also one of the only conductors to have ever conducted in both the ancient Colosseum and Circus Maximus in Rome.

Renowned wind conductor and Oxford Round Table Scholar Dr. Rikard Hansen has noted that, “In totality, Freer’s exploration in musical sound evoke moments of highly charged drama, alarming strife and serene reflection.”

Freer has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP, BMI, the Society of Composers and Lyricists and the Henry Mancini Estate. He is the Founder and President of CineConcerts, a company dedicated to the preservation and concert presentation of film, curating and conducting hundreds of full length music score performances live with film for such wide ranging titles as Rudy, Gladiator, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s A Wonderful Life, and the entire Harry Potter Film Franchise.

Mr. Freer earned both his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Music Composition from UCLA, where his principal composition teachers included Paul Chihara and Ian Krouse. In addition, he was mentored by legendary composer/conductor Jerry Goldsmith.

JUSTIN FREER ANGELA MARKLEW

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BRADY BEAUBIEN, co-founder/producer, CineConcerts

A Stanford graduate and All-American athlete, Brady Beaubien studied cognitive neuroscience before founding Interlace Media, an awardwinning motion graphics company.

As a premiere CG animation studio and creative agency for feature films, Interlace defined the global campaigns of over 100 major Hollywood movies, including the Avatar, X-Men, Rio, Ice Age, and Die Hard franchises.

In 2013 Beaubien co-founded CineConcerts, a company dedicated to reinventing the experience of theatrical presentation and orchestral music. He currently produces CineConcerts’ full repertoire of film-concert experiences, including Gladiator Live, The Godfather Live, DreamWorks Animation in Concert, Elf in Concert, and the entire Harry Potter Film Concert Series.

Beaubien helps lead the company’s vision for immersive XR technology and innovative presentations of media, including writing Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, a live concert experience that celebrates 50 years of iconic material. He also works to ensure that CineConcerts inspires a return to communal entertainment and continues to offer modern audiences and the world’s youth a chance to reconnect with concert halls and local orchestras.

Beaubien is a member of YPO Beverly Hills and is on the board of several companies dedicated to Web3 and frontier technologies.

Beaubien is also accomplished in the world of architectural design, with his projects including Matsuhisa Paris at the Le Royal Monceau-Raffles and The Citrus on Hollywood’s Melrose Avenue, an impassioned commercial structure that represents a commitment to the metropolitan providence of Los Angeles. At The Citrus, advanced technologies merge with wood, glass, and Japanese gardens, in an organic and modernist design. Additionally, Beaubien partnered with world renown sushi chef Nobu Matsuhisa to personally design his new restaurant concept in the picturesque building.

Beaubien lives in Massachusetts and California, with his wife Emmy and their two children, Archer and Channing.

BRADY BEAUBIEN

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ABOUT CINECONCERTS

CineConcerts is one of the leading producers of live and digital music experiences performed with visual media, and continues to redefine entertainment. Founded by Producer/Conductor Justin Freer and Producer/Writer Brady Beaubien, CineConcerts will engage over 4.8 million people worldwide in concert presentations in over 3,000 scheduled performances in 48 countries through 2025, and recently launched CineConcerts +PLUS - a global digital network and app suite with hundreds of exclusive podcast episodes and produced content. CineConcerts continues to work with some of the most prestigious orchestras and venues in the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and more. Recent and current live and digital concert experiences include Elf in Concert, The Pinball Concert (Digital), The Polar Express in Concert, Rudy in Concert, The Passion of the Christ in Concert, The Da Vinci Code in Concert, The Harry Potter Film Concert Series, Gladiator Live, The Godfather Live, It’s a Wonderful Life in Concert, DreamWorks Animation In Concert, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 50th Anniversary Concert Tour, Breakfast at Tiffany’s in Concert, and A Christmas Dream Live.

Justin Freer President/Founder/Producer

Brady Beaubien Co-Founder/Producer

Chief XR Officer / Head of Publicity & Communications Andrew P. Alderete Director of Operations Andrew McIntyre

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Worldwide Representation WME

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7:30 PM SAT OCT 26

8 PM

KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE

JoAnn Falletta, conductor Nikki Chooi, violin

GEORGE

The Banks of Green Willow 7:00 BUTTERWORTH

BEHZAD RANJBARAN

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 31:00

I. Andante-Allegro con brio

II. Adagio

III. Allegro moderato

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OTTORINO RESPIGHI

Fountains of Rome 15:00

I. La fontana di Valle Giulia all’alba

II. La fontana del Tritone al mattino

III. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio

IV. La fontana di villa medici al tramonto

CLAUDE DEBUSSY La Mer 23:00

I. De l’aube a midi sur la mer

II. Jeux de vagues

III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

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JOANN FALLETTA, conductor

Multiple Grammy Award-winning conductor

JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Connie and Marc Jacobson Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and Conductor Laureate of the Hawaii Symphony. She was recently named one of the “Fifty Great Conductors”, past and present, by Gramophone Magazine, and is hailed for her work as a conductor, recording artist, audience builder, and champion of American composers, and a leading force for music of our time.

As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra and has been credited with bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and international prominence. The Buffalo Philharmonic has become one of the leading recording orchestras for Naxos, with two Grammy Award-winning recordings and a 2024 Best Orchestral Performance Grammy nomination for Alexander Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy and Symphony No.2 (Naxos).

Falletta has conducted many of the world’s finest orchestras, including over a hundred orchestras in North America across 46 states. Internationally, Falletta has conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America, including recent and upcoming concerts in France, England, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Croatia, and Mexico. Her vast repertoire includes nearly 1,700 works by more than 600 composers including well over 100 world premieres.

With a discography of over 135 titles, Falletta is a leading recording artist for Naxos. She has won two individual Grammy Awards, including the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance as conductor of the world premiere Naxos recording, Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua. In 2019, she won her first individual Grammy Award as conductor of the London Symphony in the Best Classical Compendium category for Spiritualist by Kenneth Fuchs. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan received two Grammys in 2008. Her 2020 Naxos recording of orchestral music of Florent Schmitt with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award.

Her upcoming releases for Naxos with the BPO include The French in Spain (Ravel, Ibert, and Debussy), Stravinsky Fairy Tales, and Symphonic Dances (Bartok, Copland, and Hindemith). In early 2024, Naxos released the BPO’s recordings of orchestral works of Kodály and Scriabin and an album of concertos by award-winning American composers, Danny Elfman and Adolphus Hailstork, as well as a recording of works by Copland, Creston, Kay, and Piston with the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic. Her most recent recording is an album of the music of Danny Elfman with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on Sony.

Falletta is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served by Presidential appointment as a Member of the National Council on the Arts during the Bush and Obama administrations, and is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards.

After earning her bachelor’s degree at Mannes, Falletta received master’s and doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School.

For more information, visit www.joannfalletta.com.

JOANN FALLETTA STEVE J. SHERMAN

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NIKKI CHOOI, violin

Praised for his powerful and poetic performances, internationally-acclaimed violinist Nikki Chooi has established himself as an artist of rare versatility. Described as “expressive, enchanting, and transcendent,” Nikki is a Laureate of the Queen Elizabeth and Tchaikovsky Competitions, and was awarded 1st Prize Winner at the Montreal Symphony’s ManuLife Competition, the Klein International Strings Competition, and the Michael Hill International Violin Competition.

Recently, Nikki made critically-acclaimed debuts at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic and at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall with Orchestra NOW. He was also featured soloist with the Vancouver Symphony, Puerto Rico Symphony, National Taiwan Symphony Festival Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, and Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. In past seasons, he has appeared as soloist with orchestras across Canada and internationally including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, National Orchestra of Belgium, Auckland Philharmonia, Malaysian Philharmonic, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Nikki has been featured at many international festivals with performances at the Marlboro Festival, Wimbledon International Festival, Ravinia Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Brevard Music Center, Vancouver Recital Series, Moritzburg Festival, Kammermusik Utrecht, Dresden Music Festival, Chamber Music New Zealand, and Fundación Beethoven in Chile.

Nikki is currently Concertmaster of the Grammy-award winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Music Director JoAnn Falletta and was previously Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In demand as a guest concertmaster, he has performed with the Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and Macao Orchestra. His collaborations have extended to working with a myriad of distinguished conductors and fellow artists, among them Timothy Chooi, Yo-Yo Ma, Andris Nelsons, Gemma New, Michelle Cann, Clayton Stephenson, and Time for Three.

A passionate educator, Nikki has presented classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Royal Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Morningside Music Program at the New England Conservatory, University of Michigan, University of Ottawa, and University of Auckland.

Nikki has recorded for Naxos, Beau Fleuve, Atoll, and Decca labels and proudly endorses ThomastikInfeld strings. He gratefully performs on a 1749 G.B Guadagnini violin and a Jean Marie Persoit bow on extended loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

NIKKI CHOOI

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GEORGE BUTTERWORTH

The Banks of Green Willow (1913)

B. LONDON, ENGLAND

July 12, 1885

D. POZIÈRES, SOMME, FRANCE

August 5, 1916

English composer George Butterworth led a promising, if short, career as a composer. A close friend of composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams, the two met as students at Trinity College, Oxford, and shared a penchant for collecting English folk tunes. The folk melodies they collected were not merely for musical inspiration; they satisfied both composers’ urge to create a nationalist music that could secure a spot next to the great works of other European countries. Unfortunately, Butterworth was killed in action at 31 in the First World War, where he served as a lieutenant. He was awarded the Military Cross twice for his heroics before he perished. Of his output—which only included three orchestral works by his death—the most enduring has been The Banks of Green Willow, written in 1913.

The Banks of Green Willow is the title of the folk ballad the work is based upon. The ballad tells a grim tale of a farmer’s daughter who was seduced by a sea captain and who then died at sea and was thrown overboard. The melody appears rather plainly at the work’s opening, though it is inventively passed between the woodwinds and violin. A second folk ballad, “Green Bushes,” is also sourced in this work but is more challenging to discern because Butterworth may have funneled several conflicting versions through his compositional framing. Butterworth called this work an “Idyll,” and the work is indeed pastoral and folksy but also unusually episodic, lush, and climactic, all achieved in a compact six minutes.

BEHZAD RANJBARAN

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

B. TEHRAN, IRAN

July 1, 1955

I was thrilled when the National Endowment for the Arts awarded me a grant to write a violin concerto. It provided me with an opportunity to revisit some of my musical impressions of the Kamancheh, an ancient Persian bowed instrument, considered being one of the ancestors to the modern violin.

From my early years in the Tehran Music Conservatory, I was mesmerized by the sound of Kamancheh. Therefore, the notion of writing a violin concerto that incorporates the power and brilliance of a modern instrument and the intimacy of an ancient one was simply irresistible. The inspiration from the Kamancheh also informed my use of Persian modes and rhythms.

The notes of the violin’s open strings (G,D,A,E) have influenced many of the melodic and harmonic aspects of my violin concerto (completed 1994). The opening tutti of the concerto is primarily based on the intervals of perfect 4th and 5th. Each movement highlights two of the violin strings, creating a three-note melodic motif: 1st movement: A-D-A; 2nd movement: D-G-D; 3rd movement: E-A-E.

The overall structure of the concerto is organic, as themes are shared between the three movements. For example, the main musical idea of the third movement is a transformation of the first movement’s primary theme. While the movements share similar musical materials, each one is defined by a distinguishing characteristic. The first movement is conflicted, as it alternates between sections of unabashed lyricism and unforgiving ferocity. The second movement is dark, mysterious and expressive. It is essentially one long melody that varies continuously. The third movement is festive in character and features much brilliant passagework for the solo violin. At the climax of this movement, themes from the first and second movements re-emerge simultaneously with greater intensity, propelling the concerto to an energetic finale.

The score of the Violin Concerto is dedicated to Joshua Bell.

— Behzad Ranjbaran

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OTTORINO RESPIGHI

Fontane di Rome (Fountains of Rome) (1916)

B. BOLOGNA, ITALY

July 9, 1879

D. ROME, ITALY

April 18, 1936

Rome is a city of open-air ancient landmarks. Among its ancient sites are 2,000 water fountains, with around 50 built as decorative monuments, most located in Rome’s highly walkable city limits. These fountains draw water from a system of aqueducts first constructed in ancient times, which used gravity to extract water, a most impressive architectural feat. More sculpture-like, updated fontanelles (as the fountains are known) were built in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque—still pulling water from the Roman aqueduct—rivaling the works of art you’d see in the Borghese Gallery and other Italian art museums. When Respighi was appointed as a professor of composition at the Liceo Musicale di S Cecilia in Rome in 1913, he soon composed a triptych of symphonic poems inspired by the visual spectacles of his new city, which became his bestknown works. The first was Fontane di Rome (Fountains of Rome)

Four movements each depict one of Rome’s famous fountains as experienced throughout the course of a day. The first movement tone paints the so-called Valle Guilia fountain at dawn. There are, in fact, several fountains in Valle Guilia, but it’s likely Respighi was referring to the impressively tall, spherical twin fountain called Fontane delle Tartarughe. Respighi uses shimmering strings and winds for a most mystical opening to capture the quiet anticipation of daybreak over the fountain. The second movement is the Tritone fountain, as seen (and heard) in the morning proper. The sea god Tritone, a merman, stands at its center, triumphantly blowing water out of a conch shell. A brass call opens the movement, with the orchestra soon erupting into an aqueous flurry, gradually giving way to the playful and brilliant morning light. The third movement paints a grand musical portrait of the Trevi fountain at midday; this fountain is perhaps the most famous due to films like Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, where the main characters seize life by dancing around fully clothed in the fountain. The swashbuckling score depicts the impetuous sea, with the god Oceanus at its center, a tour-de-force for the brass section. The final movement winds down with a sunset portrait of the Villa Medici fountain, a humbler fountain located near the Spanish Steps, where Respighi’s gift for orchestration conveys the sparkle of twilight and lament for the approaching night.

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CLAUDE DEBUSSY

La Mer (1905)

B. ST. GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, FRANCE

August 22, 1862

D. PARIS, FRANCE

March 25, 1918

Debussy’s La Mer closes out an orchestral program inspired by water and the passage of time. Debussy is known in historical narratives as a composer of impressionist music, which moves away from tonal harmony’s goal-based directionality towards more nebulous modes and other exotic influences that suspend time and place, giving hazy, nostalgic impressions of its subject matter. Although Debussy was somewhat critical of the term, the term seemed to stick for audiences after the premiere of La Mer in 1905, and Debussy even allowed it in program notes when he made his conducting debut with La Mer in 1908.

Debussy’s love for the sea was more whimsical than concrete: although he did vacation in Cannes as a child, Debussy’s father served in the marine infantry and told stories of great adventures at sea. These stories left such an impression that Debussy later wrote in a letter that he was destined for a sailor’s life before he became a composer and admitted that “my seascapes might be studio landscapes; but I have an endless store of memories and, to my mind, they are worth more than the reality, whose beauty often deadens thought.” Asian art—seen and heard at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair and which was in vogue in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century—was another source of inspiration. A drawing, “The Hollow of the Wave off Kanagawa,” by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, adorned the original score of La Mer.

Debussy’s La Mer comprises three musical sketches that interiorize the sea, offering impressions as light moves across the water and winds change the tides. Rather than melody, instrumental color and timbre are the work’s oars. The first movement, “From Dawn to Noon on the Sea,” opens with the first gentle waves at dawn to the peaks and valleys of the rolling sea in the daylight. Chromatic woodwind passages sound like fin flutters in the jocular second movement scherzo, “Play of the Waves,” a fluttering that gets passed around the orchestra. “Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea” has the orchestra mimic the undulations and urgencies of waters governed by ever-fickle winds.

Program notes by Anna Reguero, PhD, a Rochester-based arts writer and music scholar.

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HOCHSTEIN PERFORMANCE HALL

Jherrard Hardeman, conductor

The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Education and Community Engagement Chair

For Jherrard Hardeman’s biography, please see page 7.

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J.S. BACH/STOKOWSKI Toccata and Fugue in D minor 5:00

LEROY ANDERSON Waltzing Cat 4:00

KLAUS BADELT/ Pirates of the Caribbean 6:00 RICKETTS JOSEPH JAY MCINTYRE Ghosts of Antietam 6:00 RAY PARKER JR./ Ghostbusters 5:00 RITCHIE

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BRAVO TRIBUTES

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations for their generous support by honoring, or remembering in memory of, the individuals listed below. Listings are in recognition of our current donors from August 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024.

Tribute gifts are a special way to remember loved ones or commemorate special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, births or graduations. If you would like to make a memorial or honorarium gift, please visit www.rpo.org/donate or contact the Development office at 585/454-7311 ext. 249 or email development@rpo.org.

IN MEMORY OF…

Carol Achilles

Marilyn Merrigan

Elizabeth Affolter

Mason B. Fitch

Cheryl A. Minchella

Todd and Kathleen Slocum

Elizabeth M. Thomsen

Joanne Anderson

Dolores Young

Jack Bawden

Gerald and Sandra Maar

Gretchen Mittelstaedt

Donald and Rosemarie Ruck

Carl and Eileen Webster

William J. Beenhouwer

Elizabeth Thorley

Robert N. Bischoff

The Ormsbee Family

John Boreman

Lori and Marvin Friedman

Paul W. Briggs

Beatrice Briggs

Laura Brown

Nellie J. Rosenberg

Susann Brown

Terence Chrzan

Louise Delaus

Wilma C. Chadwick

Barbara Chadwick

Jody Clark

Charlotte Streams

Linda Y. Swanson

Elizabeth M. Thomsen

Hamilton Chase

Charles Courtsal and Lisa Gwinner

Lieuween T. Chase

Charles Courtsal and Lisa Gwinner

Gerald Christoff

Rosemary Christoff Dolan

Tina J. Cichanowicz

Peggy and Ted Cichanowicz

Joyce M. Clark

Sally M. Field

Pincus Cohen

Gabriel and Deborah Aizenberg

Madeleine Cohen

Kathy Durand

Frank and Lori Karbel

Martha Lindsay

Joyce M. Clark

Sally M. Field

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Joan Dalberth

Barbara Dechario

Mary A. Fink

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Doreen Deisenroth

Giovanna Dibble

Karen J. Jacque

Vicky Edwards

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Henry Epstein

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Elvira R. Felty

Evan Felty

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Paul Gorman

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Stephen E. French

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Burt Harris

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Helen A. Zamboni

Robert Gotham

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Elizabeth K. Stevens

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Glenda Hastings

Warren H. Heilbronner

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Donald Heinle

Stephen and Ann Martin

Patricia L. Hemmenway

RPO Ushers

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Norman Horton

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Richard Howden

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RPO Ushers

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Barbara Packer

Genevieve Tepedino

Anthony Tepedino

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James Walker

Stephen G. Weber

Robert and Janet Davies

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H. Robert and Joyce Herman

David and Naomi Schrier

James E. Woods

Barbara Woods

Donald F. Zale

Robert and Signe Zale

Jeff Zehr

Todd Heller

IN HONOR OF…

Nancy E. Boone-Bahr

Peter and Deborah Kummer

Margaret Budd

James and Hollis Budd

Jennifer Carpenter

Mei F. Carpenter

Teresa Cooper

Kathleen Thomas

William F. Dewart

Janet Dewart

James T. Englert

Merrill and Dianne Herrick

Renée Fleming

Richard and Mary Jo Teneyck

Nancy Gerard

Paula Howk

Laurie Haelen

James P. Terwilliger

Lillian Johnson

Nancy Lynch

Ann and Hal Kanthor

Deborah and George Kornfeld

Zuzanna Kwon

Lucy B. Wilke

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.

Nannette Nocon and Karl Wessendo

Dr. William Valenti

Peter A. Law

Edward H. Law

Maura McCune Corvington

John and Lisa Lacci

Karen and Joseph McCune

Richard and Elizabeth Myers

John and Kathy Kutolowski

Shannon Nance

Julie Alweis

Patricia Overmoyer

Edward H. Law

Joanne Prives

Mary Elaine Pierce

RPO Ushers

David and Alice Meyer

Craig Sutherland

Anne and John Walker

Jeff Tyzik

Sally B. Bush

RPO Usher Staff

Tristan Zhang

Carl H. Reynolds

RPO GEORGE EASTMAN LEGACY SOCIETY

Members of the RPO George Eastman Legacy Society are true believers in the power of music. The RPO George Eastman Legacy Society honors those individuals who remember the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra through a planned gift. The RPO’s team of development professionals are available to work with you and your advisors to create a plan that will help you meet your financial and philanthropic goals. For more information, please contact the Development Office at 585.454.7311.

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Marie Aklin*

Betty Jane Altier*

Alva Angle*

Don J. and Edith B. Arganbright**

Catherine N. Asmuth*

Jean Boynton Baker*

John B. and Margaret Barnell*

Walter J.* and Jeanne M. Beecher

Walter S. Beecher

Nancy and Harry Beilfuss**

Carol and John Bennett

Jack and Carolyn Bent

Donald Berens*

Ellen S. Bevan

Stuart and Betsy Bobry

James R. Boehler*

Marilyn Bondy

Beverly T. Bowen*

John W.* and Margaret Z.* Branch

William and Ruth Cahn

Mary Allison Callaway and Paul R. Callaway*

Catherine B. Carlson*

Norris F. Carlson*

Margaret J. Carnall*

Joan and Paul Casterline**

Susann* and Terence Chrzan

Nancy A. Clemens*

Barbara Colucci

Christine Colucci

Dr. and Mrs. John J. Condemi**

Mary Consler*

Maurice and Bernice Cornell**

Alfred L. Davis*

Barbara Dechario*

Sally and John Dineen**

Paul Donnelly

Janis Dowd* and Daan Zwick*

Marilyn A. Drumm*

Amelia N. Dunbar*

Frederick Dushay

Richard and Harriet Eisenberg*

James T. and Ellen Englert

John R. Ertle*

Glenn and Rebecca Fadner

Ruth H. Fairbank*

Joan and Harold* Feinbloom

Albert Fenyvessy*

Donald C.* and Elizabeth Fisher

Suressa and Richard H. Forbes**

Catherine and Elmar Frangenberg

Carolyn and Roger Friedlander

Betsy Friedman

Karyl P. Friedman

Linda and David Friedman

Patrick and Barbara Fulford

Ron and Marilyn Furman**

William L. Gamble*

Sharon Garelick

Rob W. Goodling

Mary M. Gooley*

Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff*

George Greer*

Jean Groff*

William B. Hale*

Mrs. Laura J. Hameister

Marilyn* and Dick Hare

Karen G. Hart*

Monica R. Hayden*

Warren and Joyce Heilbronner

Helen and George E. Heller**

David W. Hinz*

Jean Hitchcock

Norman L. Horton*

Mrs. Samter Horwitz*

H. Larry and Dorothy C. Humm

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Hursh*

Carol A. Jones

Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz

Nancie R. Kennedy*

Robert T. Kimbrough*

Marcella Klein and Richard Schaeffer

Glenn and Nancy Koch

Jim and Marianne Koller**

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.

Jeanne Lareau*

Marshall and Lenore* Lesser

Drs. Jacques* and Dawn Lipson

Sue and Michael Lococo

William C.* and Elfriede K. Lotz

Cricket and Frank Luellen**

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mahar

Linda Malinich*

Joseph J. Mancini

Gerard Mayer*

John T. McAdam*

Pete* and Sally Merrill

Robert J. and Marcia Wishengrad Metzger

Dan Meyers

Mrs. Elizabeth O. Miller*

Jane E. Miller*

Mary L. Mitchell*

Deanne Molinari

Eleanor Morris*

Mrs. Marjorie Morris*

Paul Marc and Pamela Miller Ness

Patricia McCurdy Morse*

John S. Muenter

Diane F. Nelson*

Carolyn Noble*

Deborah Onslow

Margaret Paaschen*

Mary Anne Palermo

Ms. Lydia Susan Palmer

Eleanor T. Patterson*

Suzanne F. Powell

Robert and Ann Quivey

Ernest Rashiatore*

Eileen D. Ramos*

William and Jean Vincent-Rapp**

Marjorie Cohen Relin*

Doris Repenter*

Dr. Ramon L. and Judith S. Ricker

Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers*

Dick* and Bea Rosenbloom

Elise and Stephen* Rosenfeld

Pearl W. Rubin*

Wallace R. Rust

Ron and Sharon Salluzzo

Wesley Saucke

Peggy W. Savlov

James G. Scanzaroli*

David G. and Antonia T. Schantz

William and Susan Schoff

Peter Schott and Mary Jane Tasciotti

Jon L. and Katherine T. Schumacher

Laura M. Seifferd*

Libba and Wolf Seka

Gretchen Shafer*

Virginia Durand Shelden*

Elbis A. Shoales, M.D.

Carol Shulman

Anna Rita Staffieri*

Ingrid Stanlis

Abby and David Stern

Patricia E. Stott

Betty Strasenburgh*

Martha Ann* and Daniel Tack

Amanda Tierson

Ivan Town*

Carol Van Hoesen*

Elizabeth Van Horn*

Ann and Robert Van Niel**

Harry and Ruth Walker

Lewis and Patricia Ward-Baker

Margaret Webster*

Fred M. and Lurita D. Wechsler**

Robin and Michael* Weintraub

Jean B. Wetzel*

Patricia and Michael Wilder**

Mildred Wischmeyer*

Kitty J. Wise

Helen W. Witt*

Mary Alice and Robert Wolf*

Susan and Lawrence Yovanoff

Nancy and Mark Zawacki

Alan Ziegler and Emily Neece

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Zornow

* Denotes donor(s) is/are deceased. ^Denotes donor(s) has/have contributed to the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (RPYO).

ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC LEAGUE

Since 1929, the Rochester Philharmonic League has been collaborating with the RPO to enrich the musical life of our community. League members provide support by ushering at the RPO’s concerts, assisting with craft activities for OrKIDStra programs, providing administrative support in the RPO offices, offering financial support in the form of League donations which are given to the Education Department, and more. We are grateful to League members for their continued support of the RPO. The below listing of League members is in recognition of current active volunteers and donors, as of August 1, 2024. For questions or to join the League, please call 585-454-7311 ext 254 or email rpl@rpo.org.

Karen Abbas

Chuck Agostinelli

Beth Albert

James Alexander

Mary Andrews

Patricia Andrews

Kathy Armstrong

Ed Austin

Deborah Aylward

Debbie Bahr

Jessica Baker

Kathleen Bankey

Carolyn Bansbach

Bryan Bedell

Judy Bennett

Melina Berndt

Nancy Bleichfeld

Barbara Bossert

Donna Bott

Claire Boyce

Wes Boyce

Henra Briskin

Cheryl Brinkman

Lorita Bryant

Keith Bullis

Jennifer Buondonno-McHugh

Ruth Cahn

Rhonda Callard

Charles Chang

Dawn Choudri

Dan Clayton

Pat Coakley

Albert Consentino

Catherine Consentino

Steven Cortese

René Coston

Sharon Cree

Elizabeth Crony

Scott Crosier

Noreen Crouse

Faith Delehanty

Trudy DeMarte

Jayne DePoint

Connie Derby

Steven DeSmitt

Betsy DeSmitt

Judy DeVore

Erin Doyle

Bob DuPre

Michelle Eichelberger

Rosemary Eichenlaub

Kathleen Eisley

Cheri Emler

Molly Erler-Perry

KC Fahy Harvick

Mary Feasel

Len Fela

Bruce Fenton

Bruce Finch

Margaret Finch

Katherine Flynn

Marjorie Focarazzo

Christine Foster

Joyce Fowler

Catherine Frangenberg

Elmar Frangenberg

Barbara Frank

Joanne French

James Friedland

Lori Friedman

Rebecca Fuss

Barbara Genier

Joe Gentile

Stewart Goldman

Josh Goldowitz

Jillian Gruber

Gabrielle Guhman

Kennedy Guhman

Surangee Gunawardena

Liz Guthrie

David Hall

Laura Hameister

Holly Hammond

Cat Hardesty

Daniel Harrison

Eleanor Hartquist

Anita Hawkins

Susan Hayes

Cheryl Heimberger

Fran Henry

Linda Hilburger

Donna Hooker

Julie Howe

Hu Huang

Lisa Hughes

Cindy Jankowski

Ed Johnson

Judy Johnson

Monique Johnson

Rebecca Jones

Debby Kadlubowski

Tom Kadlubowski

Connie Kaminski

Diane Kaminski

Mark Kaminski

Daryl Kaplan

Isabel Kaplan

Laura Kelsey

Kristen Kessler

Judith Kiley

Elizabeth Kinney

Marvin Krieger

Ernest Krug

Sarah Krug

Jennifer Kump

Mary Jo Lanphear

Kathryn Larson

Betty Lee

JoAnne Leetz

Brenda Lennon

Michelle Lessard

Beth LeValley

Maryjane Link

Carole Anne Lipani

Judy Lippa

Linda LoCastro

Linda Lowenstein

Gerry Maar

Sandy Maar

Sarah Madden

Mary Maher

Jim Maliborski

Vera Mandrove

Maryann Manion

Ari Margolis

Katherine Martel

Deborah Matrachisia

Virginia Maurer

Carolyn Mazzota

Maryann McCabe

Melissa McCarthy

Quinn McCarthy

Joan McElligott

Chris McGovern

Chita McKinney

Donna Mero

Sara Merrill

Dave Meyer

Sigrun Miller

Margaret-Anne Milne

Paul Minor

Linda Mulcahy

Julie Mullen

Brenda Murphy-Pough

Eleni Nakis

Judy Nanni

Paul Ness

Pamela Ness

Kathleen Newcomb

Rose Newhart

Lucas Ng

JoBeth Nichols

Dennis O’Keefe

Chris Ott

Marion Overslaugh

Serene Palozzi

Marcia Bornhurst Parkes

Mary-Ellen Perry

Larry Pough

Linda Quinn

William Rahn

Patricia Rahn

Sandra Rake

Linda Ranslow

Michael Re

Susan Redlinski

Lorie Reilly

Aileen Reis

Libby Reitz

Joyce Renz

Charles Romano

Linda Rosebrough

Roy Sargent

Chris Sauer

Ellen Scalzo

Betty Schaeffer

Justin Schiess

Jane Schneier

Naomi Schrier

Katherine Schumacher

Emily Scorse

Barbara Segel

David Sek

Rich Sensenbach

Don Sheffrin

AnnMarie Simmons

Diane Smith

Jim Smith

Joyce Smith

Marina Smith

Kathy Spies

Howard Spindler

Anita Spoor

Anne Sprout

Cynthia Stanley

Daniel Stare

Ilene Stella

David Stern

Michael Stern

Anne Stevens

Pat Sullivan

Sharon Sweeney

Delia Tillan-Figueroa

Debbie Tennity

Marcella Thompson

Scott Thompson

Allyn VanDusen

Karen Walter

Lu Wang

Irene Ward

Tom Ward

Judith Watt

Kathleen Wayne

Elaine Welch

Steve Wendell

Dorris White

Ginny Wilterdink

Kitty Wise

Jerry Wolf

Maureen Wynn

Bonnie Yannie

Keith Yeates

Larry Yovanoff

Joanne Zeppetella

Anne Ziegler

ADMINISTRATION

Curt Long President and CEO

Samantha Marchant Executive Assistant/Office Manager

Kristen Zimmer Director of Human Resources

DEVELOPMENT

Rob Dermody Vice President of Development

Lis Bischoff-Ormsbee Senior Director of Principal Gifts

Amy Gallaher Director of Development, Annual Giving & Special Events

Elizabeth Garijo-Garde Development Associate, Institutional Partnerships

Dorian Delfs Development Officer

George DeMott Development Officer

MARKETING

Herb Griffith Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Lauren MacDonough Director of Marketing

Joyce Tseng

Content & Digital Marketing Manager

Meg Spoto Creative Director

Mike Cidoni Public Relations & Communications Manager

Sal Uttaro Group and Corporate Sales Manager

PATRON SERVICES CENTER

Charlene Beckwith Director of Ticketing

Daniel Traina House Manager

Daniel Long Patron Services Manager

Connor Straight Patron Services Assistant Manager

Samuel DeAngelis

Abby Chapman Duprey

Emma Duprey

Rilyn Garcia

Stephen House

Nathan Howton

Alyssa Koh

Grant Simon

Patron Services Representatives

FINANCE

Brandi Sheppard Director of Finance

Priscilla DeSoto Staff Accountant

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS AND EDUCATION

James Barry Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations

Barbara Brown Vice President of Education

Chisato Eda Marling Manager of Education & Community Partnerships

Ashlee Allaire Youth Orchestra and Education Projects Manager

Meghan Dunn Orchestra Operations Manager

Fred Dole Orchestra Personnel Manager

Danielle Suhr Stage Manager

Cedrick Martinez Assistant Stage Manager

Kim Hartquist Principal Librarian

Sam Giacoia Artistic Coordinator

Karl Vilcins Auditions Coordinator

ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC LEAGUE

Rachel Solomon Volunteer Administrator

ABOUT US

Since its founding by George Eastman in 1922, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been committed to enriching and inspiring our community through the art of music. Currently celebrating our Centennial Season, the RPO is dedicated to maintaining its deep commitment to artistic excellence, educational opportunity, and community engagement.

Today, the RPO presents up to 120 concerts per year, serving nearly 170,000 people through ticketed events, education and community engagement activities, and concerts in schools and community centers throughout the region. Nearly one-third of all RPO performances are educational or community-related. In addition, WXXI 91.5 FM rebroadcasts approximately 30 RPO concerts each year. For more information, visit rpo.org.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

TICKETS: The RPO Patron Services Center is located at 255 East Avenue in the back of the Farash Place building in downtown Rochester. Free parking is available in a small lot between the parking garage and building. Open Monday through Friday 10 AM–5PM.

NIGHT-OF-CONCERT PURCHASES: RPO will-call tickets and concert tickets are available at the RPO tables in the Eastman Theatre Box Office lobby starting 90 minutes prior to concert time.

PARKING: Paid parking for Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre is available at the East End Garage, located next to the theatre. Open entrances/exits change frequently while the garage is under construction. Visit rpo.org/parking for the most recent updates. Paid parking for the Performance Hall at Hochstein is available at the Sister Cities Garage, located behind the school at Church and Fitzhugh Streets.

PRE-CONCERT TALKS: All ticketholders are welcome to attend free pre-concert talks held one hour before all Philharmonics concerts and all Jeff Tyzik-conducted Pops concerts. Ticketholders are asked to sit anywhere they would like in the orchestra level of the theatre, then head to their reserved seat for the concert.

SERVICES FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES: Wheelchair locations and seating for those with disabilities are available at all venues; please see the house manager or an usher for assistance. Elevators are located in the Eastman Theatre Box Office lobby. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is available on the first floor.

SERVICES FOR HARD-OF-HEARING PATRONS: Audio systems are available at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre; headsets may be obtained from an usher prior to the performance.

CHANGING SEATS: If you find it necessary to be reseated for any reason, please contact an usher who will bring your request to the House Manager.

LOST AND FOUND: Items found in Kodak Hall will be held at the Eastman Theatre Box Office, 433 E. Main Street. For more info, call 585-274-3000.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES: The use of cameras or audio recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Patrons are asked to silence all personal electronic devices prior to the performance.

REFRESHMENTS: Food and drink are not permitted in the concert hall, except for bottled water. Refreshments are available for purchase in Betty’s Café located on the orchestra level of Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.

TICKET DONATION: If you are unable to attend a concert, please consider donating your tickets to us as a tax-deductible contribution. Return your tickets to the RPO no later than 2 PM the day of the performance to make them available for resale.

GROUP SALES: Groups of 10 or more are eligible for discounts starting at 20%! Contact Group and Corporate Sales Manager: Sal Uttaro at suttaro@ rpo.org | Office: (585) 454-7311 ext. 267 | Mobile: (585) 530-0865

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