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Welcome

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From the Chairwoman of the Board and the President

Calendar of Events

Coming soon to our stages

9 Tootsie Gets a Role 12 Disney Musicals in

Photo: Evan Zimmerman

Schools Has Much to Celebrate

14 There Is a “U” in

Volunteer for a Reason

P1 Program

Cast, performances, who’s who, program notes and more

18 Emerson String Quartet Join us for their penultimate visit to the Center

19 Creating a Lasting Legacy

21 A Center Program Is Always at Your Fingertips 22 Donors

Thank you to the many donors who support the Center

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32 Center Staff

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At Segerstrom Center for the Arts, we focus on building an arts community that is inclusive among our Orange County students.

Performing arts play an important part in our lives while also making an impact on impressionable young minds. We understand the arts provide connections and help children develop their imagination, express their unique voice, and explore their world better through self-knowledge and emotions.

This month we are happy to bring a wide variety of genres for everyone, exposing our students to dance, Broadway, chamber music, and so much more! We know it takes a community to build and create appreciation for the arts. The Philharmonic Society of Orange County, a resident company of the Center, will present the cellopiano sibling duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, who are quickly gaining traction as two of the brightest young stars in classical music. Grammy Award-winning vocalist and producer Steve Tyrell returns to perform The Great American Songbook. The legendary Chazz Palminteri presents his one-man play, A Bronx Tale.

One of the country’s top comedians, Rita Rudner, brings her sharp wit, droll observations, and genius oneliners to Samueli Theater! We go back in time and welcome The British Invasion on stage. And to wrap up the month with an exclusive Southern California engagement, the always-dazzling Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo makes its long-awaited return to the Center with Romeo and Juliet!

There is always something fun for everyone!

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jane Fujishige Yada, Chairwoman of the Board Casey Reitz, President David H. Troob*, Treasurer Sally S. Crockett*, Secretary Wylie A. Aitken Julia Argyros Bart Asner Jesse Bagley Marta S. Bhathal Michael Botsko Deborah Bridges Mark Chan Sandy Segerstrom Daniels James A. Driscoll* Michael Feldman Moti Ferder John C. Garrett John Ginger*

Jackie Glass Carole Haes Landon Wendy Hales Joseph Hensley Lawrence M. Higby* Jason R. Howard Betty Huang Molly Jolly S. Michael Joseph Roger T. Kirwan Shanaz Langson William F. Meehan* Britt Meyer Ethan F. Morgan* Rick J. Muth* Walter Parsadayan Mark C. Perry John Phelan Pat Poss Chris Rommel*

Elizabeth Segerstrom Steve Sherline Stewart R. Smith* Dr. Steven Sorenson Connie Spenuzza John E. Stratman, Jr. Samuel Tang Kelly Thomson Gaddi H. Vasquez* Jaynine Warner Carol L. Wilken* Henry T. Segerstrom,± Founding Chairman DIRECTORS EMERITUS Anthony A. Allen Timothy L. Strader * Member of Executive Committee ± in memoriam

ARTS PARTNERS John Evans, Chairman, Pacific Symphony

John Flemming, Chair &

CEO, Philharmonic Society

Craig Springer, Chairman, Pacific Chorale

ARTS SUPPORTERS Katheryn Baker, Chair, Rising Leaders Council

Shari Cipolla, Chair,

The Guilds of the Center

Laraine Eggleston,

President, Angels of the Arts

Marjorie Gorum, President, The Center Stars Cindy Ramirez, Chair, The Center Docents

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FAMILY SERIES

The Mozart Project May 19–21 |

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April 30 – May 1 |

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Debussy and Ravel May 8 |

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Aaron Diehl, piano May 11 |

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Music from the Movies May 21 |

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Mozart’s Requiem May 22 |

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Tootsie

May 31–June 12 |

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Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS

Come From Away June 21–26 |

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CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS

Artists and dates are subject to change; visit SCFTA.org for details and times.

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Tootsie Gets a Role

GET READY FOR THAT ICONIC red-sequined gown. The hilarious musical comedy Tootsie comes to the Center May 31-June 12. The story has been updated from the 1982 film on which it’s based. Now a love letter to the theater, Tootsie tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime in a Broadway musical—a really bad Broadway musical.

Think a Romeo & Juliet sequel where Juliet survives and crushes on Romeo’s brother, played by a realityshow winner super hunk with no acting chops. And Michael is not the super hunk.

Rolling Stone calls Tootsie, “The laugh-outloud funniest musical of the season.” “Hilarious! A thoroughly modern Tootsie” says People magazine, and The Hollywood Reporter calls it, “The most uproariously funny and entertaining new comedy to hit Broadway in years.”

Michael hits his 40th birthday and still hasn’t had that breakout role. He hears about a role as Juliet’s nurse in a show called Juliet’s Curse and decides to audition. The catch is that he has to make everyone believe he’s a woman: Say hello to Dorothy Michaels.

Nobody seems to notice that Dorothy has shoulders like a linebacker.

He gets the part, but in doing so, Michael must now keep up the charade. Hilarity ensues as the actress playing Juliet wonders why she’s attracted to Dorothy, while Dorothy can’t help flirting with her.

He also knows that the show badly needs rewriting and the producers like Dorothy’s ideas. It soon becomes Juliet’s Nurse, a huge Broadway hit.

As Michael transforms into Dorothy, the question quickly comes up: Why is he taking a role away from a woman? As the Los Angeles Times describes the show, “As much an update as it is an adaptation, the show acknowledges that gender APRIL 2022 9

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Q&A WITH TOOTSIE’S TONY AWARDWINNING BOOK WRITER ROBERT HORN

politics have undergone significant changes in the last four decades while embracing what makes this loony tale still so much fun today.” As Michael keeps his alter ego a secret from his ex-girlfriend (who is still a friend and auditioned for the role won by Dorothy), he cringes at what could happen when she finds out what he did to get the role. But as Dorothy, he has personal breakthroughs as he starts to see the world as a woman. It’s an eye-opening experience for Michael, and he’s in for a few surprises.

Tootsie won two Tony Awards, including Best Book of a Musical, and Tony-winning composer David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit) was nominated for Best Original Score. The New York Times praised the songs, saying, “Mr. Yazbek is one of the few composer-lyricists working today who can set jokes to music and make them pay.” Tootsie’s costume designer William Ivey Long must have had a blast creating the crazy dress-up box of pieces for Juliet’s Nurse, as well as finding high heels to fit Dorothy for her audition.

Rolling Stone says, “In these turbulent times, when the world seems out of balance, we need a place to let the good times toll. Tootsie is it.” Get your tickets now.

1. How did the idea to adapt Tootsie for theater come about, and what excited you about this idea?

The idea came from our prolific and wonderful producer, Scott Sanders, who had the rights to the movie. He had seen a workshop I had done for another musical. Somehow his GPS pointed towards me and I am forever grateful.

It’s an iconic movie and comic masterpiece, but it also has content and plot points that I knew did not age well. I originally passed on the offer. But then I sat down with the composer, David Yazbek, and we talked out all the ways we could make it our own, update it, go back to just the DNA of the story and rebuild it out from there. Use humor to tell the story in a theatrical and modern way.

I totally understand that ominous question we all eventually face: What happens when the time comes that no one wants you… when you’re told you can no longer do the one thing you love most in the world? How far would desperation take you? To me, that was a story worth building on.

2. Tootsie is such an iconic film! What was your process of adapting this for the stage?

I knew from the beginning I didn’t want to just adapt the movie for stage. And I have my own point of view about whatever story I’m telling; my own comedic language and craft. It was about starting over and making a new musical with the bones that were already there. Adapting it for an ever-changing social zeitgeist, creating a piece of work that sang, but also building it as something theatrical rather than cinematic [with the guidance of the brilliant Scott Ellis, our director]. We took our time with it, made choices, studied every beat, asked questions. It took 2 years just to get a first draft done. Then, from there, we started.

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3. What are biggest differences between the film and the Broadway musical, and would you like to explain why you made some of these choices?

One shift that needed to happen was the point of view of the female characters in the story. It was

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important they reflect the impact and progress women have made in society and art since the days of the original film. There is both a strength and vulnerability to the women portrayed in the musical that I think, sadly, might not have resonated back in the early ’80s… but as we progress culturally, so must our art. In our show, Julie does not grow by virtue of being around Michael, Michael changes and grows because of his experience of being with Julie—a woman who navigates her own obstacles with determination and confidence.

4. What is the intended impact of Michael Dorsey disguising himself to act in a Broadway show?

I like a story where the protagonist isn’t always a great character at first, but you relate to their journey, their desperation, their desires, so you follow them to watch them grow and change.

We are living in ever-shifting times and there is a social responsibility on all of us to adapt to changes and learn to grow from what we might not have understood just a short time ago.

8. Is there anything else you would like to add?

When I watch audiences watch the show and hear that tsunami of communal laughter that just builds and builds throughout the night, I wish I could let audiences know that writing the show was that exact same experience. Constant laughter, community, self-reflection, joy, friendships, and a love of this artform.

Also, supporting the arts SAFELY right now is a vital step in creating a new normal and getting back to our lives. And what better way to come out of the cave of isolation we’ve all been in, than with laughter!

Photo: Evan Zimmerman

7. Congratulations on earning the Tony Award® for Best Book of a Musical! How did it feel to receive that honor?

Thanks! I won’t lie, it was a surreal and humbling moment when you hear your name. Having worked

so hard for so many years, then getting validation from your peers that your work might actually be respectable, is all overwhelming. I do think I worked hard to make the story incredibly funny, hopefully touching at times, and to invite the audience to be a part of the humor, not just observers of it.

No book of a musical exists without a score, and David and I worked together to create this. The secret to a successful book is how seamlessly it can work with the score, so it feels like one person wrote it all. David Yazbek and I laughed for 3 years non-stop creating this show, and I think that joy and left-ofcenter humor is throughout what you see onstage.

[Yazbek was nominated for Best Musical Score.]

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Disney Musicals in Schools Has Much to Celebrate

MAYBE YOU CAN SAY you’ve seen The Lion King at the Center. But have you seen it performed by children at James Guinn Elementary School in Anaheim? You will find an extremely enthusiastic cast singing their hearts out, even if they are not wearing elaborate masks made by a props studio.

The school was one of four chosen for the academic year 2021–22 by the Center’s education department to participate in Disney Musicals in Schools, an outreach program initiative developed by Disney Theatrical Group. Disney Musicals in Schools introduces the collaborative art of musical theater into under-funded Orange County elementary schools that do not have adequate access to the arts.

In 2014, the Center received a grant from Disney Theatrical Group to bring the Disney Musicals in Schools program to Orange County. The Center was the first arts organization on the West Coast to be invited to be part of the program that year.

Since then, four Title 1 schools have been chosen by the Center each academic year to participate. The response has been overwhelming and in the past eight years, 32 schools have participated in the free program.

In Year 1, Disney Theatrical Group provides the licensing for a Disney KIDS Musical. These smartly adapted 30-minute musicals stem Disney classics such as The Lion King, The Jungle Book,

101 Dalmations, Aladdin, Aristocats, Winnie the Pooh and the newest addition, Frozen. They also receive show kits that contain scripts and DVDs that help instructors teach their students lyrics and choreography as well as stage instructions.

Professional teaching artists facilitate a residency to help the school’s faculty build the skills necessary to develop sustainable musical programs on their campus, giving more children the opportunity to test their acting chops.

During 17 weeks of after-school sessions students, teachers, and helping caregivers work together to rehearse, make costumes and props, paint scenery and prepare music, developing a sense of camaraderie for the school community. Students learn a wide spectrum of skills that can help them in the classroom, including creativity, collaboration, problem solving, communication, self-confidence, empathy and interpersonal skills. The program concludes with their own musical performance at their school for their classmates, family and community.

The results? We see the shyest student in class belting out “A Whole New World” (from Aladdin KIDS) while pretending to sit on a flying carpet.

Teachers and parents who are working together to build a “jungle” may later collaborate on other school needs. Students who might be struggling academically can succeed in a new way. English language learners find their confidence grows as their speaking and reading skills strengthen through this experience.

“The children exceeded all our expectations and it has been a thrilling experience to see them shine,” says a teacher from Hill Elementary School in Garden Grove. “Our school community worked together to make costumes and sets and our students gained confidence, displayed a discipline and dedication that we had not seen before and really encouraged each other.” At Rea Elementary School in Costa Mesa, a teacher observed, “This has allowed our students to enhance their learning beyond the four walls of the

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classroom in a way that breaks down barriers and embraces creativity and diversity.”

“The Center is deeply aware of the power the arts can have in every person’s life,” says Talena Mara, vice president, education. “With Disney Musicals in Schools activated in our local schools, our understanding and respect for the impact the arts provide has increased dramatically as we observe whole school districts, neighborhoods and cities joining together to make these school musicals successful.”

Some schools, such as Sequoia Academy in Westminster, have used their Disney Musicals in Schools experience to establish an expanded arts and musical theater program. Sequoia has developed into an arts magnet school with a full schedule of classes, including musical theater, visual arts, dance, and a music lab. While not all schools have been able to make such a substantial change, all have been able to create flourishing musical theater programs.

While distance learning endured during the school year 2020-21, virtual Disney Musicals in Schools workshops were offered to prospective Year 1 schools and interested Year 2 and Year 3 schools.

Students enjoyed sessions of singing, dancing and acting activities. Last summer, interviews were held for the 2021-22 year and the Center’s education department chose four new Year 1 schools, which began their programs in person in September 2021.

One of the most gratifying parts of the program is the Student Share Celebration at the Center. It’s an opportunity to honor and celebrate the schools and their accomplishments on the Center campus.

This year it will be held on May 10 in Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Each school will perform a selected song from their musical, cheered on by the other participating schools as well as invited family and friends. It’s heartwarming to see these students dressed in their costumes and so excited to perform on a big stage.

This summer four more schools will be chosen to participate in Disney Musicals in Schools, and the excitement of the students will be unquestionable as they prepare and present their chosen musical next spring.

“To be a young student and to experience the arts for the first time through an extraordinary program like Disney Musicals in Schools is often a life-changing experience,” says Mara. “The important tools participating students learn throughout the program’s process often positively impacts each step forward the student takes from the Disney Musicals in Schools experience through their school career and beyond.”

The four schools for the academic year 2021-22 (and their chosen musicals) are: • El Portal Elementary, La Habra The Lion King • Webber Elementary, Westminster The Jungle Book • John Adams Elementary, Santa Ana Aladdin • James Guinn Elementary, Anaheim The Lion King

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There Is a “U” in Volunteer for a Reason IN ADDITION TO the talented staff that works at the Center, we also have an army of amazing volunteers to help us in so many ways. So many, in fact, that we can’t fit them all in one article! This month, we focus on volunteers who help at our two dance schools. Although different needs are required at each, supportive smiles are welcomed at both!

Studio D Arts School for all Abilities Studio D is the Center’s inclusive arts school specializing in dance, music, and theater classes for students ages 4–adult. It celebrates physical and neuro diversity by encouraging learners of all abilities to explore their physical, social, and creative potential.

In addition to our talented teachers and musicians who facilitate the program, Studio D also has a dedicated team of volunteers of all ages.

“Studio D, truly is one of many jewels of the Center, and we have trained a wide range of volunteers from special educators to students seeking community service opportunities,” says Natalie Graham, vice president of community engagement. “Their commitment to our students and teachers is evident in every class, and we are grateful for their support and care.”

Lisa Ordonez began volunteering in 2020 when

she was a 9th grader at Orange County School of the Arts. With a passion for musical theater and a love of working with children, she says this is perfect for her.

“I enjoy seeing one of the kids try something new and just going for it,” says Ordonez. “This has helped me understand how I can see eye-to-eye with them to help improve their individual learning experiences.

When we perform together, it makes me smile when we have that sense of accomplishment together.”

Jennifer Niccol was a dancer in her younger life and knows the joy and importance of movement and expression. “I really want to share that with others,” she says. Niccol has also been a school teacher and a dance teacher, which gives her great experience on which to build. “It’s nice to see the children so excited to dance,” she says. “As a mother, I know how important it is for children to be active and play with other kids. I really smile when they improvise their own movements. When a child catches on to a rhythm or pattern, their face lights up. And sometimes they just want to hold your hand.”

Having experience with special education isn’t a requirement for Studio D volunteers, but it helps!

Gary Greene is a retired special education teacher and professor emeritus in special education at Cal State Long Beach. “I have 35 years of experience in this field and I’m happy to use it to give back to my community.” There are plenty of moments that make him happy to be part of this. “I love to see our students enjoy themselves,” he says. “For instance, it’s heartwarming when we make a connection with a student with autism who may usually be socially withdrawn and non-interactive with others. Those breakthroughs are very special.”

American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School The ABT Gillespie School, which opened in 2015, offers unrivaled opportunities for training and nurturing future generations of professional dancers.

The school follows the American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum, and the faculty

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“Start where you are. Use what you have.

Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe

includes former members of ABT’s artistic staff and ABT alumni. Some of the classes for our youngest students can use a bit of help, and it comes from an unexpected source.

Several students in Level 3 classes—ages 11-13— volunteer in Pre-Primary classes for 3- to 5-yearolds. Sarah Jones, principal teacher and coordinator of the Children’s Division, says there are currently three Level 3 students volunteering, and that there is a high interest when a position opens. The volunteers, who have danced for many years, once wore those Pre-Primary pastel leotards and know how to help the tiny dancers have fun while learning the basics of ballet.

Sophia Silva, who is 12 years old and in Level 3B/4, says it’s fun to interact with the Pre-Primary and Primary A classes. “It’s nice to be able to mentor the little ones.” In addition to helping with dance, she loves giving the children small goodie bags for holidays like Halloween and Valentine’s Day, and says they crowd around her before class to share what they are doing later. “I hope the kids look up to me like I look up to my ABT teachers,” she says. “One day I hope to be a professional ballerina and also teach.”

Jones says that while they appreciate the volunteers, it also helps the older girls with their own dance classes. “When working with the younger

children, the older girls are able to focus on the simplicity of the steps,” she says. “They also learn a lot of imagery that they can apply to their own technique classes.

“For instance, the younger dancers work on their ‘port de bras’: They hold their arms in a circle in front of them and the lift them over their head. We call it our sunrise arms, a big circle that comes from below, up the horizon, and radiates across the sky.

The older dancers use the true port de bras in their technique classes but are more dynamic because of the imagery they have seen in Pre-Primary.”

Charissa Catanus is 12 years old and has been at the school since it opened. She assists in a class for 4- to 5-year-olds. She loves helping the Pre-Primary chilren, and says it gives her a glimpse of what it would be like to be a dance teacher. Catanus says she considers the Center a second home.

“I started in Primary B when I was 6, and I remember what it was like using big stars and circles on the floor to fuel exercises. It does give me a reminder of basic technique that I apply to my own dancing,” she says. “My positive experiences in my primary classes at that age are what drove my passion for dance, and I hope that these kids can feel the same thing.”

For information about volunteering with Studio D, please visit our website at SCFTA.org.

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CARL ST.CLAIR The 2021-22 season marks Music Director Carl St.Clair’s 32nd year leading Pacific Symphony. St.Clair is one of the longest-tenured conductors of the major American orchestras. St.Clair’s lengthy history solidifies the strong relationship he has forged with the musicians and community. His continuing role also lends stability to the organization and continuity to his vision for the Symphony’s future. Few orchestras can claim such rapid artistic development as Pacific Symphony—the largestbudgeted orchestra formed in the United States in the last 50 years, due in large part to St.Clair’s leadership.

During his tenure, St.Clair has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished performances, his commitment to building outstanding educational programs and his innovative approaches to programming.

In April 2018, St.Clair led Pacific Symphony in its soldout Carnegie Hall debut, as the finale to the Carnegie’s yearlong celebration of pre-eminent composer Philip Glass’ 80th birthday, ending in a standing ovation, with The New York Times calling the Symphony “a major ensemble!”

He led Pacific Symphony on its first tour to China in May 2018, the orchestra’s first international tour since touring Europe in 2006. The orchestra made its national PBS debut in June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” conducted

by St.Clair. Among St.Clair’s many creative endeavors are the highly acclaimed American Composers Festival, which began in 2000; and the opera initiative, “Symphonic Voices,” which has included concert-opera productions of Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Aida, Turandot, Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca and La bohème in previous seasons.

St.Clair’s commitment to the development and performance of new works by composers is evident in the wealth of commissions and recordings by the Symphony.

The 2016-17 season featured commissions by pianist/ composer Conrad Tao and composer-in-residence Narong Prangcharoen, a follow-up to the recent slate of recordings of works commissioned and performed by the Symphony in recent years. These include John Wineglass’ Alone Together (2021), William Bolcom’s Songs of Lorca and Prometheus (2015-16), Elliot Goldenthal’s Symphony in G-sharp Minor (2014-15), Richard Danielpour’s Toward PACIFICSYMPHONY.ORG | April 2022 | Pacific Symphony 2021-22 Season

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a Season of Peace (2013-14), Philip Glass’ The Passion of Ramakrishna (2012-13) and Michael Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore and The Gospel According to Sister Aimee (2012-13). St.Clair has led the orchestra in other critically acclaimed albums including two piano concertos of Lukas Foss; Danielpour’s An American Requiem and Goldenthal’s Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Other commissioned composers include James Newton Howard, Zhou Long, Tobias Picker, Frank Ticheli, Chen Yi, Curt Cacioppo, Stephen Scott, Jim Self (Pacific Symphony’s principal tubist) and Christopher Theofanidis.

In 2006-07, St.Clair led the orchestra’s historic move into its home at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The move came on the heels of the landmark 2005-06 season that included St.Clair leading the Symphony on its first European tour— nine cities in three countries playing before capacity houses and receiving extraordinary responses and reviews.

From 2008-10, St.Clair was general music director for the Komische Oper in Berlin. He also served as general music director and chief conductor of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle (GNTS) in Weimar, Germany, where he led Wagner’s Ring Cycle to critical acclaim. He was the first non-European to hold his position at the GNTS; the role also gave him the distinction of simultaneously leading one of the newest orchestras in America and one of the oldest in Europe.

In 2014, St.Clair became the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Costa Rica. His international career also has him conducting abroad several months a year, and he has appeared with orchestras throughout the world. St.Clair has led the Boston Symphony Orchestra (where he served as assistant conductor for several years), New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver symphonies, among many.

Carl St.Clair is a strong advocate of music education for all ages and is internationally recognized for his distinguished career as a master teacher. He has been essential to the creation and implementation of the Symphony’s education and community engagement programs including Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles, Heartstrings, Sunday Matinées, OC Can You Play With Us?, arts-X-press and Class Act. In addition to his professional conducting career, St.Clair has worked with most major music schools across the country. In 2018, Chapman University President Danielle Struppa appointed St.Clair as a Presidential Fellow, working closely with the students of the College of the Performing Arts at Chapman University. St.Clair has been named “Distinguished Alumni in Residence” at the University of Texas Butler School of Music beginning 2019. And, for over 25 years, he has had a continuing relationship with the USC Thornton School where he is artistic leader and principal conductor of the orchestral program.

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PACIFIC SYMPHONY Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair for the last 32 years, has been the resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall since 2006. Currently in its 43rd season, the Symphony is the largest orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 50 years and is recognized as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own community of Orange County. In April 2018, Pacific Symphony made its debut at Carnegie Hall as one of two orchestras invited to perform during a yearlong celebration of composer Philip Glass’ 80th birthday, and the following month the orchestra toured China. The orchestra made its national PBS debut in June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” conducted

by St.Clair. Presenting more than 100 concerts and events a year and a rich array of education and community engagement programs, the Symphony reaches more than 300,000 residents—from school children to senior citizens.

The Symphony offers repertoire ranging from the great orchestral masterworks to music from today’s most prominent composers. Ten seasons ago, the Symphony launched the highly successful opera initiative, “Symphonic Voices,” which continues in April 2022 with Verdi’s Otello. It also offers a popular Pops season, enhanced by state-ofthe-art video and sound, led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman. Each Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a chamber music series; an educational Family Musical Mornings series; and Sunday Matinées, an orchestral matinée series offering rich explorations of selected works led by St.Clair.

Founded in 1978 as a collaboration between California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), and North Orange County community leaders led by Marcy Mulville, the Symphony performed its first concerts at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium as the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of then-CSUF orchestra conductor Keith Clark.

Two seasons later, the Symphony expanded its size and changed its name to Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Then, in 1981-82, the orchestra moved to Knott’s Berry Farm for one year. The subsequent four seasons, led by Clark, took place at Santa Ana High School auditorium where the Symphony also made its first six acclaimed recordings. In September 1986, the Symphony moved to the new Orange County Performing Arts Center, and from 1987-2016, the orchestra P2

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additionally presented a Summer Festival at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. In 2006, the Symphony moved into the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, with striking architecture by Cesar Pelli and acoustics by Russell Johnson. In 2008, the Symphony inaugurated the hall’s critically acclaimed 4,322-pipe William J. Gillespie Concert Organ. The orchestra embarked on its first European tour in 2006, performing in nine cities in three countries.

Recordings commissioned and performed by the Symphony include the release of William Bolcom’s Songs of Lorca and Prometheus in 2015-16, Richard Danielpour’s Toward a Season of Peace and Philip Glass’ The Passion of Ramakrishna in 2013-14; and Michael Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore and The Gospel According to Sister Aimee in 2012-13. In 2014-15, Elliot Goldenthal released a recording of his Symphony in G-sharp Minor, written for and performed by the Symphony. The Symphony has also commissioned and recorded An American Requiem by Danielpour and Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio by Goldenthal featuring YoYo Ma. Other recordings have included collaborations with such composers as Lukas Foss and Toru Takemitsu. Other leading composers commissioned by the Symphony include Paul Chihara, Daniel Catán, James Newton Howard, William Kraft, Ana Lara, Tobias Picker, Christopher Theofanidis, Frank Ticheli, John Wineglass and Chen Yi. In both 2005 and 2010, the Symphony received the prestigious ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.

Also in 2010, a study by the League of American Orchestras, “Fearless Journeys,” included the Symphony as one of the country’s five most innovative orchestras. The Symphony’s award-winning education and community engagement programs benefit from the vision of St.Clair and are designed to integrate the orchestra and its music into the community in ways that stimulate all ages. The Symphony’s Class Act program has been honored as one of nine exemplary orchestra education programs by the National Endowment for the Arts and the League of American Orchestras. The list of instrumental training initiatives includes Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble and Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings. The Symphony also spreads the joy of music through arts-X-press, Class Act, Heartstrings, OC Can You Play With Us?, Santa Ana Strings, Strings for Generations and Symphony in the Cities.

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PACIFIC SYMPHONY Carl St.Clair • Music Director William J. Gillespie Music Director Chair

Richard Kaufman • Principal Pops Conductor Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair

Jacob Sustaita • Assistant Conductor Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor Chair FI R ST VI O LI N Dennis Kim

Concertmaster; Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair

Paul Manaster

Associate Concertmaster

Jeanne Skrocki +

Assistant Concertmaster; Arlene and Seymour Grubman Chair

Christine Frank Kimiyo Takeya Ayako Sugaya + Ann Shiau Tenney + Joanna Lee Robert Schumitzky Agnes Gottschewski Dana Freeman Julie Ahn SE CON D VI O L IN Bridget Dolkas* +

Elizabeth and John Stahr Chair

Jennise Hwang** Yen Ping Lai Yu-Tong Sharp Ako Kojian + Linda Owen Sooah Kim MarlaJoy Weisshaar Alice Miller-Wrate Shelly Shi + Hanbyul Jang

V IO L A Meredith Crawford*

O BO E Jessica Pearlman Fields* +

BAS S TRO MBO N E Kyle Mendiguchia

Carolyn Riley + John Acevedo + Adam Neeley Joshua Newburger + Julia Staudhammer Joseph Wen-Xiang Zhang + Cheryl Gates

Ted Sugata

TUBA James Self*

Catherine and James Emmi Chair

C E L LO Warren Hagerty*

Catherine and James Emmi Chair

John Acosta Robert Vos Lázló Mezö Ian McKinnell M. Andrew Honea Jennifer Goss + Rudolph Stein

Suzanne R. Chonette Chair

E N GL IS H H O RN Lelie Resnick CL ARIN E T Joseph Morris* +

The Hanson Family Foundation Chair

David Chang

Charlie and Ling Zhang Chair

BAS S CL ARIN E T Joshua Ranz

PE RCU S S IO N Robert A. Slack* H ARP Mindy Ball* + Michelle Temple

The Sungaila Family Chair

BAS S O O N Rose Corrigan*

D IRE CTO R O F O RCHE STR A PE R S O N N E L Craig Hahn

Elliott Moreau + Andrew Klein Allen Savedoff

L IBR ARIAN Alison Spaeth

CO N TR ABAS S O O N Allen Savedoff

D IRE CTO R O F PRO D UCTIO N Will Hunter

F L U TE Benjamin Smolen*

FRE N CH H O RN Keith Popejoy* + Adedeji Ogunfolu Kaylet Torrez** Elyse Lauzon +

D IRE CTO R O F M U LTIME D IA O PE R ATIO N S William Pruett

Sharon O’Connor + Cynthia Ellis

TRU MPE T Barry Perkins*

P IC C O LO Cynthia Ellis

Tony Ellis David Wailes

BAS S Michael Franz* Douglas Basye** Christian Kollgaard David Parmeter David Black Andrew Bumatay Constance Deeter

Valerie and Hans Imhof Chair

Ruth Ann and John Evans Chair

Susie and Steve Perry Chair

TRO MBO N E Michael Hoffman* David Stetson

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TIMPAN I Todd Miller*

* Principal ** Assistant Principal + On Leave The musicians of Pacific Symphony are members of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 7.

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PROGRAM Verdi

Otello Opera in Four Acts, sung in Italian with English Supertitles Act I: The harbor of Cyprus Act II: A chamber in the castle

Intermission Act III: The great hall of the castle Act IV: Desdemona’s chamber

2021-22 Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series

VERDI’S OTELLO Preview talk with Dr. Jacob Sustaita @ 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 7, 2022 @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 9, 2022 @ 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 @ 8 p.m.

Carl St.Clair, conductor Robert Neu, stage director Pacific Chorale, Robert Istad, artistic director Pacific Symphony Southern California Chidren’s Chorus, Lori Loftus, founding director Pacific Symphony

Cast OTELLO: Carl Tanner, tenor DESDEMONA: Kelebogile Besong, soprano IAGO: Stephen Powell, baritone EMILIA: Margaret Lattimore, mezzo soprano CASSIO: Norman Shankle, tenor RODERIGO: Eric Barry, tenor LODOVICO: John Paul Huckle, bass MONTANO: Jeffrey Mattsey, baritone HERALD: Kerry Wilkerson, bass baritone DANCERS: Sophia Oddi and Kayla Aguila CHOREOGRAPHER: Sophia Oddi

Creative Team Go Button Productions, scenic designer Katie Wilson, costume designer Ora Jewell-Busche, wig and makeup designer Kathy Pryzgoda, lighting designer Emily Yoder, properties coordinator Chadwick Creative Arts, Supertitles

This production of Otello is generously underwritten, in part, by The Janet Curci Family Foundation Drs. Hana and Francisco J. Ayala Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel Mark Nielsen The Isadore C. and Penny W. Myers Foundation Pacific Symphony’s Opera-Vocal Initiative is sponsored by Opera FOCUS P4

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OFFICIAL TV STATION

OFFICIAL HOTEL

OFFICIAL MUSIC STATION

This concert is being recorded for broadcast on Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 7 p.m. on Classical KUSC. Performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall Pacific Symphony 2021-22 Season | April 2022 | PACIFICSYMPHONY.ORG

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PROGRAM NOTES Otello Opera in Four Acts Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Arrigo Boito Based upon the play Othello

by William Shakespeare Verdi, Otello and Shakespeare

“Ecco il leone!” sneers the exultant, villainous Iago as the fallen Otello writhes at his feet at the end of Act III. “Behold the lion!” Though his words are ironic, they could’ve been a fitting tribute for the great Giuseppe Verdi when he was composing Otello around 1886. Then in his seventies, he was the national hero who all but dominated Italian arts and letters. He was revered the world over. But he was also in retirement, jealous of his privacy, and a bit of a grouch.

About the last thing he wanted was another big project.

Even so, the writer Arrigo Boito knew how to tempt him: with a libretto based on Shakespeare’s Othello. Revamped for the opera house, Boito’s schema for Otello is faithful to the original, but reorders events to streamline and clarify the action. Boito knew that once Verdi saw the libretto, he would be hooked. But he couldn’t know that the result would be one of the greatest operas ever written, and perhaps the greatest transcription of any Shakespeare play into another form of art.

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Otello is special for many reasons, especially because Shakespeare was special to Verdi. He passionately admired Shakespeare’s plays throughout his adult life, and while they inspired him, their allure was also dangerous. Verdi’s opera Macbeth (1847), despite flashes of brilliance, does not succeed in capturing the fullness of Shakespeare’s Scottish play in music. After that, he wrestled with the bard’s monumental King Lear for decades, never progressing beyond musical sketches. During his most productive years he had greater success adapting works by other great writers, such as Victor Hugo (for Rigoletto, 1851) and Alexandre Dumas (for La Traviata, 1852).

When Verdi produced these operas, modern-day Italy was just emerging as a unified nation, and his success reached into every facet of Italian life and culture; his operas dominated the country’s national art form and made him its most famous citizen. And yet, he was often melancholy and sometimes irritable, especially toward the end of his career, when it seemed that the tide of music history might leave him behind. By the 1870s, Wagner’s revolutionary music dramas had taken hold outside Italy, and Italian music critics and opera fanatics were looking to the next big Italian thing: the shocking grittiness of Verismo composers like Puccini, Leoncavallo and Mascagni, whose sizzling librettos Verdi envied.

Verdi produced his politically charged Manzoni Requiem in 1874, but insisted that by then he had retired from composing for the stage. Still, the publisher Giulio Ricordi felt sure that the master had another great opera in him. And so did one of Verdi’s erstwhile critics, the multi-talented Arrigo Boito, a leading Italian writer of his generation. Boito had once criticized Verdi’s operas as “old-fashioned” and composed a more “modern” one of his own, Mefistofele. It contains some spectacular music and theatrical effects, but none of it is in Verdi’s league, and Boito knew it. He was far more skilled as a poet and dramatist, and like Verdi, he venerated Shakespeare.

When Ricordi and Boito took a meeting with Verdi, they came prepared to coax, cajole and conciliate. But more importantly, they came with Boito’s compelling first draft of Otello. It was not long before Verdi and his erstwhile rival began an intense collaboration on a libretto that—like the score that goes with it—is one of the highest achievements of its kind. It distills Shakespeare’s five-act, four-thousandline tragedy into an eight-hundred-line drama that builds almost unbearable tension and pathos into four swift acts.

As for the music, Verdi composed it at a level of mastery that can only come after a lifetime, and he had absorbed the lessons that Wagner and Verismo offered him.

Boito’s libretto preserves and concentrates every theatrical element. Each line of text in the opera has a parallel source in Shakespeare’s (with the exception of Iago’s “credo,” his snarling manifesto of evil). Some critics on “both sides of the aisle”—that is, musical and literary—have dared to say that this operatic adaptation surpasses its source.

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happily, the story does not end there. For one thing, the ensuing years have brought mounting appreciation, leading to the special status Otello enjoys today. For another, it resulted in a later and equally great collaboration by Verdi, Boito and Shakespeare: Falstaff, based mostly on The Merry Wives of Windsor. Verdi began working with Boito on this magical work in 1889, at age 76, and completed it three years later, as he was approaching age 80—ending his career on a buoyant note of comedy. Like Otello, it continues to sound sophisticated and ageless, gaining stature year by year.

The Story of Otello Act I

As a storm rages in the harbor, the people of Cyprus anxiously await the arrival of the new governor, Otello, from a naval battle with the Turks. Hoping for the worst, his vengeful ensign Iago is disappointed when the ship arrives safely. The victorious Otello announces that the enemy fleet has been destroyed as the citizens cheer.

Amid dockside celebrations, Iago works the crowd to further his own nefarious ends, first offering to help the

young Venetian gentleman Roderigo to seduce Otello’s wife Desdemona. Then, envious of Cassio’s appointment as captain of the navy and knowing that Cassio can’t hold his liquor, Iago sings a sinister drinking song, goading Cassio to drink more than he can handle.

When former governor Montano enters and calls for Cassio to begin his watch, he is surprised to find Cassio drunk; Iago falsely calls this a nightly occurrence. Roderigo provokes the staggering Cassio, who attacks him. Montano tells Cassio to calm down, but Cassio draws his sword, threatening Montano. Cassio and Montano begin to duel, and Iago sends Roderigo to call the alarm. Montano is wounded; Otello intervenes, ordering Montano and Cassio to lower their swords. “Honest Iago” denies any knowledge of how the duel began.

Desdemona enters, and Otello is upset that her rest has been disturbed. He demotes Cassio; calm is restored.

With the crowd and the storm having receded, Otello and Desdemona sing together under a now-starlit sky, recalling their courtship in a rapturous love duet—their last moment of happiness together.

Act II

Iago advises Cassio to ask Desdemona’s help for Otello to reconsider the demotion. Desdemona and her maid Emilia, who is Iago’s wife, walk in the garden, where Cassio approaches Desdemona. Watching from inside, Iago voices his allegiance to an evil, vengeful God. He pretends not to notice as Otello enters, instead calculatedly musing on signs of Desdemona’s infidelity so Otello will overhear him.

With feigned reluctance, Iago finally hints that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair. Iago “warns” Otello against jealousy, and the die is cast.

When Desdemona approaches Otello on Cassio’s behalf, he puts her off, complaining of headache; as she persists, he grows impatient. She offers to wrap his head in a handkerchief he once gave her, linen embroidered with strawberries. Otello throws it to the ground, Emilia retrieves it and Iago wrests it from her.

Now suspicious, the agonized Otello confronts Iago for proof of Desdemona’s infidelity. Iago claims to have heard Cassio talking in his sleep, warning Desdemona to conceal their love, adding that he saw Cassio carrying Desdemona’s strawberry-embroidered handkerchief just the day before.

Otello screams for blood, swearing vengeance on Desdemona in a duet with Iago.

Act III

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Ambassadors are en route from Venice, but Otello is preoccupied with the scheming Iago, who offers to talk with Cassio as Otello eavesdrops. Desdemona enters and again intercedes for Cassio, angering Otello, who asks her to bind his head with the strawberry-embroidered handkerchief. His warnings and accusations escalate until she is driven away protesting her innocence. Iago then returns with Cassio, manipulating their conversation to Pacific Symphony 2021-22 Season | April 2022 | PACIFICSYMPHONY.ORG

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sound like Desdemona is his lover. When he maneuvers him into producing Desdemona’s handkerchief, he ensures that it is seen by Otello, whose ire rises as bugles announce the triumphant arrival of the Venetian delegation. As Cassio withdraws, Iago advises Otello to kill Desdemona by suffocating her in her bed and offers to kill Cassio himself.

Otello promotes him to captain.

Lodovico, Desdemona, Emilia, Roderigo and the Venetian delegation enter. When the Venetian Lodovico inquires about Cassio’s absence, Iago tells him that Cassio is out of favor. Desdemona expresses hopes he will soon be restored, provoking Otello, who curses her and is about to strike her when he is restrained by Lodovico. Otello then calls for Cassio, who has been appointed as governor of Cyprus so Otello can be recalled to Venice; announcing this news, Otello interpolates vulgar accusations about Desdemona, shocking all present and forcing the dazed Desdemona to the ground.

Seething, he orders everyone to leave. He curses Desdemona when she tries to comfort him and finally collapses as the crowds outside praise his victory and his glory. Iago gloats over the agony of the “lion of Cyprus.”

Act IV

Preparing for bed, Desdemona asks her maid Emilia to lay out her bridal gown. Desdemona says that if she dies, she wants to be buried in the gown. She then recounts the sad life of her mother’s servant Barbara and the lament that Barbara used to sing, not realizing that she is describing her own life as well. As Emilia leaves, both women are filled with foreboding. In her Ave Maria, Desdemona asks the Virgin Mary to pray for the innocent in their hour of death, and then falls asleep.

Wearing his sword, Otello silently enters and kisses his wife three times. When she awakens, Otello asks her if she has prayed that night, saying she must die because he loves her, and he does not wish to condemn her soul. He insists that she loves Cassio. She asks God’s mercy both for herself and for Otello, but also struggles, denying his accusations.

Otello strangles her; the distraught Emilia re-enters and says Cassio has killed Roderigo. Now barely alive, Desdemona softly repeats that she is innocent, but dies without blaming Otello. Emilia accuses Otello of murder; when he retorts that Iago gave him proof of Desdemona’s infidelity, she calls for help. Cassio, Iago and Lodovico enter. The truth of Iago’s duplicity emerges as Emilia, Iago’s own wife, angrily reveals his lie about the incriminating handkerchief. Montano enters and says that Roderigo, with his dying breath, has explained Iago’s plot. Iago draws his sword and flees; Otello, faced with the consequences of his own baseless jealousy, draws his dagger and stabs himself, falling beside Desdemona and dying upon a kiss.

Michael Clive is a cultural reporter living in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. He is program annotator for Pacific Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic, and editor‑in‑chief for The Santa Fe Opera.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Born: October 10, 1813 in Le Roncole, Italy Died: January 27, 1901, in Milan, Italy Otello Composed: Verdi completed the work in three short bouts of composition. The first, very brief, was in March 1884, five years after the first drafts of the libretto began. The second, the principal one, from December 1884 to April 1885, and the third from the middle of September to early October 1885 World Premiere: February 5, 1887 at Teatro alla Scala in Milan Instrumentation: three flutes including piccolo, three oboes including English horn, three clarinets including bass clarinet, four bassoons, four French horns, four trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, strings and SATB chorus Estimated duration: Approx. 3 hours

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Tenor Carl Tanner has established an international career performing in the world’s most prestigious opera houses including The Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris, Washington National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Real Madrid, New National Theatre of Tokyo and the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, among others. In the 2018 – 19 season, Mr. Tanner performed the title role of Verdi’s Otello at the Metropolitan Opera to great acclaim.

The occasion also marked Gustavo Dudamel’s house debut. Immediately prior to this, he performed Otello at the Bolshoi Opera and Savonlinna Opera Festival. Recent engagements at The Metropolitan Opera have included Radames in Aida, Turiddu in Cavaleria Rusticana, Canio in I Pagliacci, Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio (canceled due to COVID), Luigi (cover) in Il Tabaro, Manrico (cover) in Il Trovatore and the title role in Samson (cover).

Other notable performances include Luigi in Il Tabarro for the Royal Opera House with Maestro Pappano, Radames with Opéra de Massy, Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Gran Teatre del Liceu; Canio in I Pagliacci with the Korean National Opera, Opera North Carolina; Otello with the Gran Teatre del Liceu and Opera Hong Kong; Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot with Hamburgische Staatsoper, Tosca at Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Fanciulla del West at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie de Liège, Madama Butterfly at the Opéra National de Paris, Il Trovatore at the Semperoper in Dresden, Carmen at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Zubin Mehta and at the Teatro alla Scala and at the Teatro San Carlo; and La Gioconda in Berlin and the Teatro Real de Madrid. His Royal Opera House debut was as Cavaradossi in Tosca.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Soprano Kelebogile Besong made her North American debut as Aida with Pacific Symphony in 2017. This season, she makes her role debut as Desdemona with the orchestra. She joins Opera Saratoga in her role debut as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly.

Last season, she sang Aida at Theater Dortmund and also recently sang Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan. She joined the Edinburgh International Festival for Musetta in La bohème and sang Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Recent performances include: Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte at the Bregenzer Festpiele; Violetta in La Traviata, Giorgietta in Il tabarro and Dejanira in Weill’s Royal Palace with Opéra National de Montpellier; Musetta in La bohème at Grange Park Opera; Micaela in Carmen with Opera Africa; Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro with Tampere Opera; the title role in Kálmán’s Gräfen Mariza with the Johannesburg Symphony; and Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. She created the role Gabisile in the Opera Africa’s world premiere of Ziyankomo and the Forbidden Fruit by Phelelani Mnomiya, sang the title role in the Zulu opera Princess Magogo at Den Norske Opera in Oslo, and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos with Opéra Royal de Wallonie.

Baritone Stephen Powell has been lauded by The Wall Street Journal for his “rich, lyric baritone, commanding presence, and thoughtful musicianship.” An alumnus of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists, he has sung Marcello in La bohème with that company. His Atlanta Symphony debut as Marcello in concert performances of La bohème was under Robert Spano’s direction. He has appeared as soloist with many of America’s leading orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony in repertoire including Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Handel’s Messiah. Recent opera credits include Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor (Los Angeles Opera), Scarpia in Tosca (Minnesota Opera), Germont in La Traviata (Seattle Opera), the title in Rigoletto (Portland Opera and San Diego Opera) and the title role in Sweeney Todd with Michigan Opera Theatre.

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Mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore has been praised for her “glorious instrument” and dubbed an “undisputed star…who has it all— looks, intelligence, musicianship, personality, technique and a voice of bewitching amber color,” by The Boston Globe. While she began her career singing the florid works of Handel, Rossini and Mozart, Lattimore expanded her repertoire in recent seasons to include the works of Mahler, Verdi and Wagner, making her one of the most versatile mezzo-sopranos performing today.

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Dorotea in Stiffelio with Plácido Domingo and later appeared in the PBS Great Performances broadcasts of Stiffelio and Madama Butterfly. Since her house debut at The Metropolitan Opera, Lattimore has performed the role of Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette, Praskowia in The Merry Widow and the roles of Meg Page in Falstaff and Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby, both under the baton of the James Levine. Additionally, she has joined the esteemed house for productions of Eugene Onegin, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, The Exterminating Angel and Iolanta.

Tenor Norman Shankle is currently enjoying worldwide acclaim for his portrayals of Mozart and Rossini’s most famous tenors. The Boston Globe called Shankle “a real find, a singer of elegance, grace and conviction,” and the San Francisco Chronicle praised him equally as “clearly a singer to watch.”

This past summer he returned to Northern Lights Music Festival as Ramiro in La Cenerentola and performed a Gala Concert for Knoxville Opera. This season, engagements include the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and Adolphus Hailstork’s A Knee On a Neck as well as Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for the National Philharmonic; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for Helena Symphony, Wesley Harris in Sanctuary Road for North Carolina Opera and will join the Tulsa Opera for Salome.

Tenor Eric Barry was the winner of the first Bel Canto Prize at the Maryland Lyric Opera Competition.

The Spanish-American singer is “making an impressive mark” on opera and concert stages “with a clear timbre, evenness of projection and exceptional sensitivity” (Opera News). A seasoned master of the standard repertoire, his engagements have included Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and Alfredo (La Traviata) for Shreveport Opera; Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor),

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Rodolfo (La bohème) and The Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) for Amarillo Opera; Lionel (Martha) and Jenik (The Bartered Bride) for Boston Midsummer Opera; Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) for Opera Memphis; Rodolfo (La bohème) for North Carolina Opera, Opera Memphis, Pittsburgh Opera and the Teatro Comunale di Sulmona; Arbace (Rossini’s Ciro in Babilonia) at the Caramoor Music Festival; Rossini’s Otello for Opera in the Heights; Eginhard (Schubert’s Fierrabras) for Bard Summerscape; Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd) and Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress) for Wolf Trap Opera.

Bass John Paul Huckle studied at Indiana University under the legendary bass Giorgio Tozzi.

He made his professional debut as Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Cleveland Opera. After further studies, he moved to Europe and became a member of the Young Ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he performed roles such as Steuermann (The Flying Dutchman) and Second Armored Guard (The Magic Flute).

During his time in Berlin, he also made his debut in Italy at the Teatro Regio di Turino in smaller roles in Boris Godunov, Madama Butterfly and Parsifal. Huckle then joined the ensemble of the Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, and made his debut as Simone in Gianni Schicchi alongside Rolando Panerei. His roles encompassed Timur in Turandot, Colline in La bohème, Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette, Dansker in Billy Budd and Zuniga in Carmen.

More recent career highlights include Angelotti in Tosca at the Festival Lyrique-en-Mer; Zio Bonzo in Madama Butterfly and Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata at the Teatro Carlo Felice Genova; King Marke in Tristan und Isolde with the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra; and Quinault in Adriana Lecouvreur at the Teatro Carlo Felice Genova.

Bass Jeffrey Mattsey is renowned worldwide for the signature baritone roles that define his prominent career. He has been a house favorite at The Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years and over 100 performances. Recently, he performed the role of Mayor Shinn in The Music Man: In Concert with Pacific Symphony, Uncle John in The Grapes of Wrath with Michigan Opera Theatre and Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady: In Concert with Utah Symphony. Additionally, he reprised the role of Germont in La Traviata with Northern Lights Music Festival.

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After making his Metropolitan Opera debut in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Mr. Mattsey returned to the house as Marco in Gianni Schicchi, Mercutio and Paris in Roméo et Juliette, Silvano in Un ballo in maschera, Schaunard in La bohème, Joe Castro in La Fanciulla del West and Marullo in Rigoletto. After enjoying his 100th performance with the company as Señor Cascada in The Merry Widow, Mattsey returned to The Metropolitan Opera as Montano in Bartlett Sher’s new production of Otello, Marullo in the Rat-pack inspired setting of Rigoletto, and for their productions of Die Fledermaus and L’elisir d’amore. Most recently, he joined the esteemed house to reprise the role of Señor Cascada in The Merry Widow, sing the role of Padre Parson in The Exterminating Angel and for their productions of Cosí fan tutte, Romeo et Juliette, La Fanciulla del West, Gianni Schicchi, Otello and La Traviata.

Baritone Kerry Wilkerson made his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2017 to rave reviews as baritone soloist in the Vaughan Williams Sancta Civitas.

He was an esteemed member of the United States Army Chorus, singing and conducting for world leaders, Supreme Court Justices and dignitaries of many nations.

A resonant singer with unique evenness in register, Wilkerson has sung professionally with the United States Air Force Singing Sergeants and the acclaimed Robert Shaw Festival Singers in prestigious concert halls throughout the United States and Canada. He is well-known to Washington, DC audiences through his solo recitals and regular guest appearances with groups such as the Handel Choir of Baltimore, the National Philharmonic Chorale and Orchestra, City Choir of Washington and the Oratorio Society of Virginia.

Special thanks to Lyric Opera of Orange County for providing all of the Supernumeraries in our Otello production.

Supernumeraries Sara Blanton Juana Carrillo Mary Frances Conover Devon Crowe Kelsey Fahy Sarah-Jane Finch

Brianna Finnell Amy Long Lindsay Mack Antonio Serrano Nicholas Thurkettle

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Robert Neu, known for his highly theatrical and musically sensitive work, has directed over one hundred productions of operas, musicals and plays across the country. Neu’s recent productions include The Magic Flute, L’Enfant et les sortileges and La Traviata for Pacific Symphony, among many others. Neu teaches masterclasses in audition techniques for the University of Minnesota’s opera department, is a former resident director at Lyric Arts Theater and former artistic director of Skylark Opera Theatre. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is co-founder of Angels & Demons Entertainment, a production and arts consultancy organization. In 2021, Neu was named Vice President of Artistic Planning of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera.

Robert Istad, who “fashions fluent and sumptuous readings” (Voice of OC) with his “phenomenal” artistry (Los Angeles Times), was appointed Pacific Chorale’s artistic director in 2017. Under his leadership, the chorus continues to expand its reputation for excellence for delivering fresh, thoughtprovoking interpretations of beloved masterworks, rarely performed gems and newly commissioned pieces.

His artistic impact can be heard on two recent recordings featuring Pacific Chorale: “Mahler’s Eighth Symphony” with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on Deutsche Grammophon (2021), for which he prepared the chorus, and “All Things Common: The Music of Tarik O’Regan,” which he conducted on Yarlung Records (2020).

Istad has also prepared choruses for such renowned conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Williams, John Mauceri, Keith Lockhart, Nicholas McGegan, Vasilly Sinaisky, Sir Andrew Davis, Bramwell Tovey, Carl St.Clair, Eugene Kohn, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, George Fenton and Robert Moody.

He regularly conducts and collaborates with Pacific Symphony, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Sony Classical Records, Yarlung Records, Berkshire Choral International and Long Beach Symphony. An esteemed educator, Istad is professor of music and director of choral studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he was recognized as CSUF’s 2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year. He conducts the University Singers and manages a large graduate conducting program, in addition to teaching courses on conducting and performance practice. Istad, who is on the executive board of directors of Chorus America and serves as Dean of Chorus America’s Conducting Academy, is in demand as guest conductor, lecturer and clinician.

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Lori Loftus is the Founding Director of the Southern California Children’s Chorus (SCCC). Her abilities as a choral conductor have taken her around the world as both a performer and clinician. She is also acclaimed for her skills as a keyboardist, having performed for years under the baton of such renowned maestros as Helmuth Rilling, John Alexander, Carl St.Clair and Zubin Mehta.

In March 2007, Loftus was honored for a lifetime of achievements with the Outstanding Alumni Award for Excellence in Choral Music from her alma mater, California State University, Fullerton. Throughout her career, Loftus has brought intensive and quality education in both music and life principles to thousands of young singers. Many graduates of Sothern California Children’s Chorus have distinguished themselves in the arts as vocalists, conductors, managers and patrons.

The Southern California Children’s Chorus was founded in 1996 as a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization whose mission is “enhancing children’s lives through distinguished choral music education and worldclass performance.” SCCC currently serves nearly 300 children, ages 5 - 20. A recipient of three Emmy awards, SCCC has gained international acclaim for the quality of its music education program. The choruses are featured frequently at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts and have thrilled audiences at Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Westminster Abbey and the White House. In addition, SCCC has contributed singers for Touchstone and MGM films, television productions and commercials, orchestral, adult choral and opera productions, rock music recordings and many Disney events, both televised and live. Its Emmy-winning performances include a collaboration with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith in a stirring rendition of “Dream On” for ESPN’s E:60 special, “Boston Strong,” as well as a live performance of “What a Wonderful World” with Esperanza Spalding at the 84th annual Academy Awards.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN’S CHORUS ROSTER Joseph Meinstein Devon Alaniz Elianna Alaniz Samuel Meinstein Ashmita Bhowmik Sofia Mendez Emily Chang Kristen Norris Emma Pinza Mykela Jenaya Del Rosario Annie Qu Lauren Doan Diya Ramesh Bena Feng Norah Wang Gracie Finley Quintessa Wendell Ysabel Wilhoit Irisa Huang Eshika Abbaraju Maddie Wrate Cailey Lockitch

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PAC I F I C C H O R A L E Robert Istad • Artistic Director and Conductor Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Artistic Director Chair

Kibsaim Escarcega • Interim Assistant Conductor Andrew Brown • President & CEO Pacific Chorale, an Orange County “treasure” with a “fresh viewpoint” that “can sing anything you put in front of it, with polish, poise and tonal splendor” (Orange County Register) has “risen to national prominence” (Los Angeles Times) since its inception in 1968. Hailed for delivering “thrilling entertainment” (Voice of OC), the resident choir at Segerstrom Center for the Arts is noted for its artistic innovation and commitment to expanding the choral repertoire. It has given world, U.S. and West Coast premieres of more than 35 works, including numerous commissions, by such lauded composers as John Adams, Jake Heggie, James Hopkins, David Lang, Morten Lauridsen, Maurice Ravel, Tarik O’Regan, Karen Thomas, Frank Ticheli, András Gábor Virágh and Eric Whitacre. In addition to presenting its own concert series each season, Pacific Chorale enjoys a long-standing partnership with Pacific Symphony, with which the choir made its highly anticipated Carnegie Hall debut in 2018. The chorus also regularly appears with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has performed with such leading orchestras as the Boston

Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Diego Symphony and Musica Angelica, among others. Pacific Chorale has garnered international acclaim as well, having toured extensively to more than 19 countries in Europe, South America, and Asia, and through collaborations with the London Symphony, Munich Symphony, L’Orchestre Lamoureux and L’Orchestre de St-Louis-en-l’Île of Paris, National Orchestra of Belgium, China National Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Estonian National Symphony and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Argentina, among others. Deeply committed to making choral music accessible to people of all ages, the organization, which has a discography of 14 self-produced recordings and an extensive collection of exceptional free digital offerings, places a significant emphasis on choral music education, providing after-school vocal programs for elementary school students a choral summer camp for high school students and an annual community-wide singing event at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. PacificChorale.org

S OPR AN O Rebecca Hasquet

A LTO Jane Hyun-Jung Shim

TE N O R Daniel Coy Babcock

BASS Ryan Thomas Antal

Lauren Adaska Alexandria Burdick Chelsea Chaves Karla V. Delgado Diana Farrell Adrien Gonzalez Saousan Jarjour Barbara Kingsbury,

Rebecca Bishop Mary Clark Kathryn Cobb-Woll Denean R. Dyson Harriet Edwards Jessica-Elisabeth I-Chin Betty Feinblatt Marilyn Forsstrom Kathryn D. Gibson Kathleen Thomsen Gremillion Bonita Jaros Pat Newton Tina Glander Peterson Bonnie Pridonoff Sarah Shaler Stephanie Shepson Emily Weinberg

Mike Andrews Dongwhi Baek Michael Ben-Yehuda Chris Buttars Marius Evangelista Alan Garcia Steven M. Hoffman Craig S. Kistler Jin Ming Liao Zachary Lindquist David López Alemán Ricardo Martinez Gerald McMillan Stephan Mitchell Jesse Newby Carl Porter

Aram Barsamian Mac Bright James Brown Michael Fagerstedt Louis Ferland Karl Forsstrom

Section Leader

Rita Major Memorial Chair

Corinne Larsen-Linza Sarah Lonsert Katie Martini Shannon A. Miller Michele M. Mulidor Maria Cristina Navarro Katherine Scholl Holisky Linda Wells Sholik Victoria Wu

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Acting Section Leader Ron Gray Legacy Chair

Singers Memorial Chair

Daniel Mizrain Ramon Sammy Salvador Joshua Tan Tessler

Section Leader Ron Gray Legacy Chair

Singers Memorial Chair

Sean Gabel Randall Gremillion Jared Hughes Matthew Kellaway Jonathan Krauss Martin Minnich Emmanuel Miranda Kenneth Moore Seth Peelle Raphael Poon George Reiss Antone Rodich David Williams

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PROGRAM Dvorák

Carnival Overture, Op. 92

Kander

Selections from Chicago

Williams

“Harry’s Wondrous World” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Bizet

”Les Toreadors” from Carmen Suite

De Falla

Danza Final - Jota from The ThreeCornered Hat

Steiner

”Tara’s Theme” from Gone with the Wind

Strauss

Thunder & Lightning Polka Op. 324

Williams

“Flight to Neverland” from Hook

—Intermission —

Pacific Symphony Pops Underwritten by the Sharon and Tom Malloy Family

CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Cirque de la Symphonie, aerialists Jacob Sustaita, conductor Pacific Symphony

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Gardel

Por Una Cabeza

Anderson

Bugler‘s Holiday

Copland

Saturday Night Waltz from Rodeo

Berstein

Candide Overture

Rimsky-Korsakov “Danse des Bouffons” from The Snow Maiden

Friday, April 22 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 23 at 8 p.m.

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Barry

“Main Theme” from Out of Africa

Tchaikovsky

Valse from Swan Lake

Ravel

Boléro

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“Theme” from New York, New York, Reprise

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Cirque de la Symphonie is an exciting production formed to bring the magic of cirque to the concert hall. It is an exciting adaptation of artistic performances widely seen in theaters and arenas everywhere. For more than 10 years, it has thrilled and bedazzled veteran concertgoers and new patrons as they see accomplished aerial flyers, acrobats,

contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers and strongmen perform to live symphony music. They include world-record holders, gold-medal winners of international competitions, Olympians and some of the most experienced cirque talent ever seen.

Their performances are uniquely adapted to stage accommodations shared with the symphony, and each artist’s performance is choreographed to the music arranged in collaboration with the maestro. When the artists of Cirque de la Symphonie perform in front of the full orchestra, an incredible fusion of these two great art forms takes place. The aerialists and acrobats turn the concert into a three-dimensional entertainment extravaganza, and the orchestra seems to play with enhanced enthusiasm.

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR Dr. Jacob Sustaita is the assistant conductor of Pacific Symphony. Since 2015, he served as director of orchestral studies at Sam Houston State University where he was responsible for conducting the symphony, chamber, ballet and opera orchestras.

In 2016, Sustaita and the orchestra performed the American premiere of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 1 (original Linz version) with high praise from the American and European Bruckner Societies.

In 2018 Sustaita was named associate conductor of the Conroe Symphony Orchestra, and in May 2019, he became the orchestra’s fourth music director. He is a frequent guest conductor and clinician across the country, and he recently made his debut conducting the Juilliard Orchestra. During the 2016-17 season, Sustaita made his debut with the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra in Cleveland, Ohio, and made his debut as cover conductor with the Houston Symphony, assisting David Zinman. In 2015, Sustaita was selected by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute to serve as assistant conductor for Charles Dutoit and the National Youth Orchestra of America. Sustaita regularly conducted and coached the orchestra during its New York residency and on their seven-city tour of China and Hong Kong.

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principal guest conductor for the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, a three-year tenure as music director with the Southeast Texas Youth Symphony, and assistant orchestra director at Mayde Creek High School in Katy, Texas.

Music education has always been at the forefront of his conducting interests. He regularly conducts the Link Up Concerts created by Carnegie Hall, and he continues to develop innovative platforms for youth and family concerts that provide a meaningful and exciting experience for all concertgoers. In addition to his responsibilities with the Conroe Symphony Orchestra and Sam Houston State Orchestra, he has conducted youth and collegiate orchestras including the Houston Youth Orchestra Symphony and Philharmonia, Akron Youth Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and multiple All-Region orchestras. He is also a regular presenter at conventions and for teacher in-service and development workshops.

A native of Texas, Sustaita completed his doctorate degree at the University of Houston, where he served as assistant conductor and guest music director for the Moores Opera Center for three seasons. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Houston and a Master of Music degree from both Penn State and Rice University. His honors include the Schissler Conducting Fellowship, Rice University Prize and Provost Fellowship and American Prize semi-finalist and finalist. His teachers and mentors include Charles Dutoit, Franz Krager, Brett Mitchell, Gerardo Edelstein, Paavo Järvi and Andrew Meade.

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PROGRAM De Falla

Danza Final - Jota from The ThreeCornered Hat

Williams

“Harry’s Wondrous World” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Williams

“Devil’s Dance” from Witches of Eastwick

Strauss

Thunder & Lightning Polka Op. 324

Steiner

“Tara’s Theme” from Gone with The Wind

Berstein

Carnival Overture

Anderson

Bugler‘s Holiday

Rimsky-Korakov “Danse des Bouffons” from The Snow Maiden

presents Pacific Symphony Family Musical Mornings

CIRQUE FOR KIDS Saturday, April 23 @ 10 and 11:30 a.m.

Jacob Sustaita, conductor Joy Regullano, scriptwriter Nick Luciano, stage director

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Tchaikovsky

Valse from Swan Lake

Kander

“Theme” from New York, New York, Reprise

Dear Friends, It is a pleasure to welcome you all to Cirque for Kids. Prepare to be mesmerized by the dazzling and spectacular combination of live music and big-top action.

Today, music meets magic! You will be enchanted as the musicians from Pacific Symphony perform alongside the exceptional cirque artists. The combination of these two art forms creates a new dimension of entertainment that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end!

Cirque de la Symphonie is an experience for everyone. This unbelievable production blends the attraction and athleticism of aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers and strongmen with the elegance and beauty of live music. You will gasp, laugh, and cry in pure delight.

Get ready to be amazed! I hope to see you at our next concert – Music from the Movies! on May 21.

Don’t miss your favorite Disney hits and so much more in this concert! From all of us at Pacific Symphony – thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoy this unforgettable concert! Let art and artists lead us forward.

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PROGRAM Carreño

Margariteña Pacific Symphony Premiere

Rachmaninoff

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Joyce Yang, piano

–Intermission– Schumann

2021-22 Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series

YANG PL AYS R ACHMANINOFF Preview talk with Dr. Jacob Sustaita @ 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 28 @ 8 p.m.

Friday, April 29 @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 30 @ 8 p.m.

José Luis Gomez, conductor Joyce Yang, piano

The 2021-22 season piano soloists are generously sponsored by: The Michelle F. Rohé Fund

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Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120 Ziemlich langsam — Lebhaft Romanze: Ziemlich langsam Scherzo: Lebhaft Langsam — Lebhaft

MEET THE ARTIST Joyce Yang first came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

The youngest contestant at 19 years old, she took home two additional awards: Best Performance of Chamber Music (with the Takàcs Quartet) and Best Performance of a New Work. In 2006, Yang made her celebrated New York Philharmonic debut alongside Lorin Maazel at Avery Fisher Hall along with the orchestra’s tour of Asia, making a triumphant return to her hometown of Seoul, South Korea.

Yang’s subsequent appearances with the New York Philharmonic have included opening night of the 2008 Leonard Bernstein Festival—an appearance made at the request of Maazel in his final season as music director.

In the last decade, Yang has blossomed into an “astonishing artist” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), showcasing her colorful musical personality in solo recitals and collaborations with the world’s top orchestras and chamber musicians through more than 1,000 debuts and reengagements. She received the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant and earned her first Grammy nomination (Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) for her recording of Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann with violinist Augustin Hadelich.

Yang’s wide-ranging discography includes the world premiere recording of Michael Torke’s Piano Concerto, created expressly for Yang and commissioned by the Albany Symphony. She recorded Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Denmark’s Odense Symphony Orchestra that International Record Review called “hugely enjoyable, beautifully shaped...a performance that marks her out as an enormous talent. Yang appears in the film In the Heart of Music, a documentary about the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She is a Steinway artist.

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MEET THE CONDUCTOR

Sergei Rachmaninoff:

The Venezuelan-born Spanish conductor José Luis Gomez was catapulted to international attention when he won First Prize at the International Sir Georg Solti Conductor’s Competition in Frankfurt in September 2010, securing a sensational and rare unanimous decision from the jury. Gomez’s electrifying energy, talent and creativity earned him immediate acclaim from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was appointed to the position of assistant conductor, a post created especially for him

by Paavo Järvi and the orchestra directly upon the conclusion of the competition. Since then he has worked with the RTVE National Symphony Orchestra of Madrid, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Houston Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, Hamburg Symphony, Weimar Staatskapelle Orchestra, Karlsruhe Staatstheater Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, Orquesta Sinfonica do Porto, Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Alabama Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Macau Orchestra and Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano Orchestra. Maestro Gomez was the principal conductor of the Orchestra 1813 Teatro Sociale di Como between 2012-15 and is music director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

In recent years, more than one commentator has likened Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini to one composer’s “sampling” of another’s work, like a rap artist. But as listeners, we do better to remember the traditional appeal of the theme-andvariation idea, which shows what both the composer and the performer can do across a wide range of technical challenges. Paganini had already done this with his original composition. In Rachmaninoff’s dazzling treatment of this material, we have a perfect convergence of all the elements of instrumental virtuosity: a melodic subject drawn from a flashy instrumental caprice by a superstar soloist; an extraordinary set of 24 variations designed to showcase both compositional and performance skills; a heroic expansion of the original melody’s scale and dynamic range; and special attention to Rachmaninoff’s particular gifts as a pianist— the blazing speed and thundering power that thrilled his audiences.

Rachmaninoff was essentially a figure of the 20th century, the last of the Russian Romantics. But his sound was rooted in the 1800s and in the Russian nationalist tradition dating back to Glinka and Tchaikovsky. He trained as a performer and composer in Moscow and St. Petersburg, focusing on the piano in both disciplines. But all expectations for his future life, including his life in music, were shattered by the Russian revolution of 1917 when Rachmaninoff’s aristocratic family lost their long-held estate with its traditional way of life. He became a citizen of the United States and died here while touring as a concert pianist, just three days before his 70th birthday.

Rachmaninoff composed the Rhapsody in 1934 when he had already written four full-length concertos. By that time, his unabashedly Romantic style was very nearly a thing of the past. But its lushness and melodic appeal were irresistible, and despite his frequent bouts of self-doubt, he had every reason to be confident of the Rhapsody’s success and formal excellence. Not just a collection of variations on a theme, it is a concertante that is formally constructed, with the 24 variations dividing themselves into three movements in which most of the variations, like Paganini’s original theme, are stated and developed in the key of A minor. The result closely resembles a concerto: It has traditional fast, slow and faster movements, and it incorporates additional thematic materials to develop musical ideas in a formal way.

Listeners who cannot quite place the formal title of the Rhapsody will immediately recognize Paganini’s familiar main subject, which is the best-known and -loved of his set of 24 violin caprices. It’s built upon a pair of peppery A-minor phrases that sound vaguely demonic, especially on the violin. The melody starts with an emphatic A, and then, after a quick four-note figure, jumps up to E — then drops an octave to a lower E, repeats the four-note figure starting on E rather than A to arrive back where it began. This basic progression—start on the tonic, jump up a fifth, drop an octave and jump up a fourth to the tonic again—is often called “circular,” and it could be repeated in an endless loop if a counterbalancing phrase didn’t intervene… eventually resolving it on the same tonic note.

In Rachmaninoff’s treatment of this theme, the first 10 variations form an opening movement, with another theme—a quotation of the Dies irae theme of the Latin mass—arising in variations 7, 10, 22 and 24. Variation 11 consists of a slow, poetic transition that leads us into a slow movement that moves gradually from D minor to D-flat minor, culminating in the most famous musical interlude in the entire Rhapsody, variation 18. You’ll be lost in the beauties of Rachmaninoff’s lush romanticism when this variation, vernal and ecstatic, soars forth, literally turning the original theme on its head—a direct inversion of Paganini’s original A-minor subject.

PROGRAM NOTES Inocente Carreño:

Margariteña

The spacious, sunlit sound of Inocente Carreño’s composition Margariteña has been gaining favor among American concertgoers recently, and it is easy to hear why: the sound is exhilarating and fresh. Carreño, who died in 2016 at age 96, was a dominant figure in Venezuelan music for most of his long life. Born in 1919 on the Venezuelan island of Porlamar, he gained prominence as an orchestral player, conductor, composer and music educator. Carreño was professor of theory and solmization at the José Angel Lamas Superior Music School for 30 years, and for 25 years was a horn player in the Symphonic Orchestra of Venezuela. He was the director of the Prudencio Essá School of Music that he founded with Antonio J. Ochoa in 1970 and was counselor minister of the permanent delegation of Venezuela to UNESCO in Paris from 1984-88. As a conductor, he led most of the symphonic orchestras in Venezuela. As a musician and composer, he received the most important distinctions granted in Venezuela, including the Venezuelan National Prize for Music in 1989.

Carreño’s sound combines brilliant, sunlit textures with complex, layered rhythms and lustrous harmonies that often force close neighbors in the scale to “play together,” as the brasses do in Margariteña. In listening to Carreño’s distinctively Venezuelan music, it is interesting to compare him to the American composer John Williams; they are nearcontemporaries (Williams was born thirteen years later) who won acclaim both conducting and composing for orchestras, but more importantly, their music shares irrepressible energy and a sense of optimism that seems to express a national spirit. In fact, Margariteña is the word for a woman from the Venezuelan island of Margarita. You can hear the sun, sea and love of country in every bar.

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Understanding its potential popularity, Rachmaninoff is reported to have quipped, “this [variation] is for my agent.” It is often played as a stand-alone work. But the entire composition, as well, has been popular since its premiere in Baltimore in 1934. At that historic performance, Leopold Stokowski was on the conductor’s podium, and Rachmaninoff was at the keyboard. When Bruno Walter led the New York Philharmonic in the Rhapsody’s first New York performance, Rachmaninoff was again the soloist. Writer Robert A. Simon commented in The New Yorker that “The Rachmaninoff variations, written with all the composer’s skill, turned out to be the most successful novelty that the Philharmonic Symphony has had since Mr. Toscanini overwhelmed the subscribers with Ravel’s Boléro.”

Robert Schumann:

Symphony No. 4 in D Minor (1851 version)

Born in the Saxon town of Zwickau (now Germany), Schumann began his musical studies at age six. After customary studies at the Zwickau Gymnasium and facing intense family pressure, he matriculated at the University of Leipzig to study law.

But music continued to preoccupy him; the year before his enrollment at Leipzig, he encountered another fantastically gifted young composer named Franz Schubert, who was nine years his senior. Inspired by Schubert’s example as well as the poems of Jean Paul Richter, Schumann began exploring song composition—to the detriment of his law studies. He turned to one of the most celebrated German piano teachers of the day, Friedrich Wieck, for intensive piano studies.

Friedrich Wieck’s daughter Clara was a nine-year-old piano prodigy when Schumann first met her; by the time he prevailed over her father’s personal and legal objections to marry her, she was 21. In the intervening years, Schumann had begun to lay the foundation for his career as a virtuoso pianist. When a hand injury foreclosed that option, he turned to piano composition: more songs and jewel-like piano pieces. It was Clara who persuaded him to look beyond the keyboard to full orchestra and to the symphony as a form.

With Clara’s encouragement and sound musical judgment, Schumann published his first symphony in 1841, the year after they married. He completed another that same year but withheld it from publication, making his Symphony No. 2 his third complete work in symphonic form. He eventually completed a fourth symphony, No. 3 in the catalogue; that second effort, published posthumously, became what we now know as his Symphony No. 4. Flush with inspiration and optimism, he had begun work on it just months after his marriage, in 1840, and completed it early in 1841. “Robert’s mind is very creative now,” Clara wrote in her diary, “and he began a symphony yesterday which is to consist of one movement, but with an Adagio and finale. I have heard nothing of it as yet, but from seeing Robert’s doings, and from hearing a D minor echoing wildly in the distance, I know in advance that this will be another work that is emerging from the depths of his soul.” Schumann revised it a decade later, adding depth to the orchestration and to the development of some of its themes. The 1851 version, which superseded the original for publication, proved one of the few points of artistic disagreement between Brahms and Clara Wieck; while Brahms greatly preferred the austere purity and lightness of the original (which had earned critical praise at its premiere with the Leipzig Gewandhaus), Clara characterized the earlier edition as inferior and unfinished. She was adamant that only the later performing edition should see print.

Schumann is sometimes called “the spirit of the Romantic era,” and in this symphony we can hear why. Many of the ideas that preoccupied Romantic poets, artists and musicians are here—among them a deep attraction to the rawness of nature, a feverish intensity, and a spirit of rebellion that questions familiar, PACIFICSYMPHONY.ORG | April 2022 | Pacific Symphony 2021-22 Season

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conventional ideas. This is most apparent in the symphony’s form, which defies the conventional grouping of four distinct movements with silence in between. Far from an arbitrary matter of musical architecture, the elimination of movement breaks reflects a unity of expression that flows through the symphony from beginning to end.

Despite variations of light and dark, fast and slow, the symphony’s materials form a sort of continuous weave, and there is a fevered restlessness even in quiet moments. In this way, Schumann dared his contemporaries to think beyond their musical expectations—to listen to the fundamentals of orchestral expression harking back to earlier eras, to Bach and others who predated the symphonic “advances” of the Classical era and the monumentality of Beethoven.

Schumann’s composing career was tragically short. His bouts of clinical depression and dementia, which would be far more treatable today, drove him to attempt suicide in 1854, and he spent the remaining two years of his life in an asylum. Music history is full of what-if questions. One of the most tantalizing is suggested by Schumann’s illness, which afflicted him in both body and mind. What if it had been treatable during his lifetime?

Inocente José Carreño Born: December 28, 1919, in Porlamar, Venezuela Died: June 29, 2016, in Porlamar, Venezuela Margariteña: Pacific Symphony Premiere Composed: 1954 World Premiere: December 1954 in Caracas at the Latin American Music Festival with the composer on the podium.

Instrumentation: two flutes including piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four French horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano and strings.

Estimated duration: 14 minutes Sergei Rachmaninoff Born: April 1, 1873, in Oneg, near Semyonovo, Russia Died: March 28, 1943, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Composed: According to the score, the work was composed from July 3 to August 18, 1934, at the composer’s summer home, the Villa Senar in Switzerland.

World Premiere: November 7, 1934, at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Md., with the composer at the piano and Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: September 11, 2021.

Instrumentation: three flutes including piccolo, three oboes including English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four French horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and solo piano.

Estimated duration: 22 minutes Robert Schumann Born: June 8, 1810, in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany Died: July 29, 1856, in Endenich, near Bonn, Germany Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120 Composed: Sketched in 1841 but was only fully orchestrated in 1851 World Premiere: This work received its first performance on December 6, 1841, in Leipzig, under the baton of conductor Ferdinand David. Schumann abandoned the piece, only to resurrect and revise it, eventually conducting a new premiere on March 1, 1852, in Düsseldorf.

Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: March 12, 1993.

Instrumentation: two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four French horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings.

Estimated duration: 28 minutes

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PROGRAM Bach

SANTIAGO STRINGS

Jiyu Lee, Elena Miyamoto, Minji Choi, violin Justin Hong, Bentie Feng, Joshua Tan, viola Verena Lo, Mattea Kim, Aiden Kim, cello Raymond Tsukada (PSYO), bass Kyle Yeung, harpsichord

IT’S ALL ABOUT STRINGS! Saturday, April 30 @ 1 p.m.

Irene Kroesen, conductor Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings Scan QR Code for a more detailed digital program

Tchaikovsky arr. Robert Frost

Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato—Allegro

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Prelude for String Orchestra in F minor, Op. 25

Villa-Lobos arr. Matthew Naughtin

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Ária (Cantilena)

Elgar

Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20 Allegro piacevole Larghetto Allegretto

Chuck Elledge

Adelante! Adelante!

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Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 Moderato Allegro

Pacific Symphony Santiago Quartet Hannah Schweiger, Andrew Kao, violins Justin Hong, viola Verena Lo, cello

Members of Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, percussion

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Irene Kroesen received her bachelor’s degree in Music Education and teaching credential from Chapman University in Orange. From 1988-2011, Kroesen was an adjunct instructor at Chapman University where she taught the String Methods course for music education majors. She is currently is a retired string specialist for the Irvine Unified School District.

Kroesen has also served as a mentor teacher for Irvine Unified School District, as well as a designated Master Teacher for Chapman University, Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Fullerton. She has given curriculum workshops for county and state conferences, as well as shared and distributed her teaching materials to Placentia-Yorba USD and Garden Grove USD. Kroesen has appeared as conductor of the Irvine Elementary and Middle School Honor Orchestras and guest conductor of the Middle School Honor Orchestra for Las Vegas Unified (Nevada), Capistrano Unified, Placentia-Yorba Linda School District, Long Beach Unified, Fresno-Madeira County and the SCSBOA AllSouthern Middle School Honor String Orchestra. Kroesen served as the guest conductor for the Inaugural Year 2015 SCSBOA Elementary Honor Orchestra. She has served as manager and assistant conductor of the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra and is currently the conductor of the Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings. In March 2016, Santiago Strings was a selected participant in the National School Orchestra Festival in Tampa, Florida. After receiving “Unanimous Superiors” at the American String Teachers Conference, Santiago Strings returned to celebrate its 25th Anniversary Season. In June 2018, Santiago Strings traveled to Costa Rica on a seven day workshop tour to perform and collaborate with local Costa Rican string players.

Kroesen is listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers and is a past recipient of the “Alumni of the Year Award” from the School of Music at Chapman University.

In 2003, she received the “Orange County Outstanding Arts Educator Award for Elementary Instrumental Music”.

In 2006, Kroesen was selected as the Irvine Unified School District Elementary Teacher of the Year. In 2019, she was awarded the “Distinguished Service to the String Community Award” from the Greater Los Angeles Area Section of the California Chapter of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA).

As a string educator and clinician, Kroesen has served as an adjudicator for the Disney Creative Challenge and has auditioned violinists and violists for both the All-Southern California Middle School and High School Honor Orchestras in California. In 2015, Kroesen served as program advisor for Pacific Symphony Strings for Generations Program, and has served as its Music Director for the past four seasons.

Kroesen is a member of the American String Teachers Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, National Association for Music Education and California Music Educators Association.

She is also a member of the Los Angeles Musicians Union and is an active professional violinist.

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PAC I F I C SY M P H O N Y SANTIAGO STRINGS Irene Kroesen • Music Director | Mel Domingo • Santiago Strings Manager 2021-22 Season Sections listed alphabetically under principal VI O LI N I Brendan Chang Ariana Chen Minji Choi Sarah Hong Andrew Kao Susan Kim Matthew Ko Jiyu Lee Ivan Lu Elena Miyamoto Christine Nam Hannah Schweiger Chloe Woo Katelyn Xu Zhuoran Zhao

V IO L A Bentie Feng Audrey Guo Justin Hong Tu (Torres) Hong Ting-Wei (Christine) Lee Ryan Lee Ashley Liau Irene Lu Jasmine Shao Joshua Tan Peyton Tan Ethan Wang Shan Yu (Kelly) Yeh Daniel Zhu

VI O LI N I I Chelsea Chen Claudia Cheng KariAnne Chien Jiwoo Chung Ellie Guo Sol Hwang Tian (Shell) Jin Heejae (Kayla) Kim Sophia Kim Sylvie Kim Yuvin (Calvin) Kim Audrey Lee Minghao (Ben) Li Ryan Mao Ben Quil Brian Rossi Amelia Shiwota

C E L LO Chihyu (Joyce) Chang Sabrina Chang Justice Cheng Declan Hu Alex Hwang Annie Jiang Aiden Kim Mattea Kim Zachary Kim Arianna Lai Verena Lo Yincheng (Thomas) Song Sophia Wong Nina Yoon

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STAFF Mel Domingo Santiago Strings Manager

Bridget Bow Santiago Strings String Coach

D O UB L E BAS S Kohana Baird

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS PA C I F I C S Y M P H O N Y Y O U T H ENSEMBLES Jerry Huang* Board Chair Elizabeth Stahr* Lifetime Director & Distinguished Counselor Emeritus to the Board Rosalind Britton Wendy Hua Castille Sherry Chen David Dunford Tony Ellis Joyce Hanson

Hans Imhof † Sheng Jiang Kari Kerr Sarah Koo Katie (Chung Min) Lee Suzy Lee

Michelle Li Anyi Liu Ian McKinnell Dot Nelson Herb Roth Elaine Sarkaria

Janice Smith Walter Stahr Alan Terricciano MarlaJoy Weisshaar Larry Woody David Yeung

E X- O F F I C I O P SYE B OA R D ME MB E R S & S TA F F Carl St.Clair* Music Director, Pacific Symphony John Forsyte* President, Pacific Symphony Eileen Jeanette Senior Vice President of Artistic Planning & Production, Pacific Symphony Shawne Natalia Zarubica Managing Director, Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles, Pacific Symphony Joe Schillaci Director of Major Gifts, Pacific Symphony Irene Kroesen Music Director, Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings

Jacob Sustaita Music Director, Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra & Assistant Conductor of Pacific Symphony Gregory X. Whitmore Music Director, Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble Angela Woo Music Director, Pacific Symphony Youth Concert Band Nicole Kroesen Youth Wind Ensemble Manager & PSYE Auditions Coordinator, Pacific Symphony

Haiyang Wang Youth Concert Band Manager, Pacific Symphony Bridget Bow Santiago Strings String Coach, Pacific Symphony *Also member of Board of Directors for Pacific Symphony † Pacific Symphony Life Director

Jared Brown Youth Orchestra Manager, Pacific Symphony

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ANNUAL SUPPORT

CRYSTAL SOCIETY The Crystal Society recognizes those donors who over time have made a commitment of $1 million or more. We extend our thanks to the following donors for their extraordinary support.

Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. Susan annd Samuel Anderson The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Leona Aronoff-Sadacca Chevron Suzanne and David Chonette City of Santa Ana Sandy Segerstrom Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Jim Driscoll M. William Dultz* Catherine Emmi Ruth Ann and John Evans Freedman Foundation Lynn and Douglas Freeman William J. Gillespie* Eleanor and Michael Gordon The Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation

Joyce and Rondell Hanson David L. Horowitz Family Valerie and Hans Imhof The James Irvine Foundation Janice M. Johnson Mark Chapin Johnson Damien and Yvonne Jordan Phil and Mary Lyons Sharon and Tom Malloy Tiffany and Joseph Modica Mary Moore Mary M. Muth* National Endowment for the Arts Stacey E. Nicholas The Nicholas Endowment The Opus Foundation The Orange County Register Rev. and Mrs. Steven L. Perry

Sheila and Jim Peterson Patricia and William Podlich Judith Posnikoff Mr. and Mrs. Ron Redmond The Segerstrom Foundation Sally E. Segerstrom Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom Mr. Douglas Simao and Ms. Kate Peters Sandi and Ronald Simon Janice and Ted Smith Wilbert D. Smith Elizabeth and John Stahr Target Mr. and Mrs. William S. Thompson Tara and David Troob Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walker Charlie and Ling Zhang Zion Charity Foundation

ENDOWMENT FUND Pacific Symphony’s Endowment Fund ensures that classical music and related education and outreach programs are available to our community in perpetuity. Pacific Symphony and the entire Orange County community express heartfelt gratitude to the generous donors listed below who have made gifts of $50,000 or more to the Pacific Symphony Endowment.

GOLD Anonymous (2) Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Suzanne and David Chonette Margaret Corkett M. William Dultz Catherine and James Emmi William J. Gillespie Eleanor and Michael Gordon Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson Mr. and Mrs. Hans Imhof Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lyons Paul and Elisabeth Merage Mary M. Muth Ms. Stacey E. Nicholas Rev. and Mrs. Steven L. Perry Patricia and William Podlich Dr. W. Ronald and Margaret Redmond The Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Ronald and Sandra Simon John and Elizabeth Stahr Dorothy B. Stillwell

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MARCY MULVILLE LEGACY SOCIETY The Marcy Mulville Legacy Society honors those who generously make provisions for support of Pacific Symphony in their wills, trusts, financial plans or other planned gifts. We salute those who have made extraordinary commitments to assure that Pacific Symphony will continue to grow and serve the Orange County community beyond their lifetimes.

Anonymous (3) Dr. and Mrs. Julio Aljure Leona Aronoff-Sadacca Eric Baur* Fredrick M. Borges, Esq. Rosalind Britton Maclay* and Claire* Burt In memory of Frank Carr Mr. and Mrs. Charles Champion Jo Ellen Chatham Gregory Pierre Cox Jann* and Walter Dietiker Ben* and Patricia* Dolson Gerald* and Eva Dongieux David M. Doyle Catherine and James* Emmi Lois V. Fahey* Hani Feller Bridget Ford Petrina Noor Friede Philip and Katie* Friedel

Denise and Al Frink Gloria Gae Gellman William J. Gillespie* Gary Good and Jackie Charnley Ildi and Stephen* Good Mike and Ellie Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Rondell B. Hanson Dr. David E. Hartl* Mildred Hicks Roger W.* and Janice M. Johnson Richard Alan Keefe Kim and Nancy Kelley Mr. and Mrs. William Klein Gayle* and Roger Kirwan James Lathers* Mr. Gordon L. Lockett* John and Loreen Loftus Phil and Mary Lyons Joan L. Manuel Pat and Rick McAuley Suki and Randall*McCardle

William and Lynn McMaster Mrs. Carole S. Miller Carlos and Haydee Mollura Marcy Arroues Mulville* Mary M. Muth* George W. Neiidendam Dot and Rick Nelson Jean E. Oelrich Bill and Linda Owen Marjorie L. Phillips* William and Pat Podlich Mr. and Mrs. Osdale-Popa Mark and Russell Ragland Drs. Julia and Irving* Rappaport Drs. Barbara* and Roger Rossier Chiyo and Stanton Rowe Elinor Schmidt* Ernest and Donna Schroeder O. Carl Schulz* and Bill C. Thornton* Scott and Leslie Siegel

W.Bailey and Lenda Smith Wilbert D. Smith* Louis G. Spisto Elizabeth and John Stahr Ronald and Cathleen Stearns Joseph* and Linda Svehla Lillian Tallman-Neal CarolAnn Tassios Jane Pickford Taylor* Andrew and Karen Thorburn Carole and Michael Wade Jill Watkins Ruth Westphal* Vina Williams Kim and Allen Yourman Robert and Janet Zaugg Charlie and Ling Zhang Madeline and Leonard Zuckerman *deceased

For more information about the Marcy Mulville Legacy Society or to discuss planned giving opportunities, contact Gregory Pierre Cox, CFRE, CSPG at GCox@PacifiSymphony.org or (714) 876-2398.

GOVERNING MEMBERS Governing Members is a new donor engagement program. Governing Members are music lovers who have a passion and appreciation for Pacific Symphony and value the musical experiences the orchestra brings to the community by making a gift of $2,500 or more to Pacific Symphony. We gratefully acknowledge the following supporters whose generous annual fund contributions provide the cornerstone of support for Pacific Symphony.

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Ms. Sarah J. Anderson & Mr. Thomas B. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Choi Julie and Robert F. Davey Sam and Lyndie Ersan Lynn and Douglas Freeman Valerie and Barry Hon Reza Jahangiri and Ms. Kate Levering-Jahangiri Tom Jenkins Mark Chapin Johnson Sharon and Seth Johnson Diana Martin William and Lynn McMaster Jean R. Moriarty Ruth Ann Moriarty Mr. Arthur Ong and Ms. Ginger Sun Pat and John B. Peller Chiyo and Stanton Rowe Mr. William Shanbrom and Ms. Suzy Krabbe Drs. Jean and Evan Siegel Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel Elizabeth Stahr Gail and John Ueberroth Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation / Jeff Snyder

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Linda and Robin Boyd Rosalind Britton Mr. Marc Carlson and Mrs. Jacqueline DuPont Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cashion Mr. John Daniels Suzanne and Peter Desforges Mr. Kenneth Ferguson Jr. and Ms. Dawn Dow The Fletcher Jones Foundation Bridget Ford Michele and John Forsyte Gary and Betsy Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. Jack Langson Paul and Bonnie Lubock Linda P. Maggard, L.P. Maggard Foundation Susan and Goran Matijasevic Dru and Larry Maurer Mr. Rich Mendelson Music Loving Family from Irvine Lauren and Richard Packard Sheila and Jim Peterson The Shanbrom Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Long Shung Shih Linda Svehla Mary and Richard Tengdin Robert and Janet Zaugg

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Nadine Leyton Dr. and Mrs. Paul Liu Ann McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Terry McDonald Betty Middleton Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mirowitz Mr. and Mrs. Abbas Mohaddes Mr. Edwin Muradliyan Mr. Maurice Murray S. Paul and Marybelle Musco Carla and Kenneth Neeld David D. Neer, MD Mr. Manuchehr Neshat Mr. Thomas H. Nielsen The Ralph and Eleanor Leatherby Family Foundation Karin Pearson Yvette Pergola Dr. Jacob and Ilene Rispler Jean and Robert L.Schrimmer Betty and Richard Schweickert Margaret and Albert Sepe Ms. Sunny Soltani and Mr. Rocky Foroutan James M. Sommerville Justice Sheila P. Sonenshine (Ret.) Susan and Carl St.Clair Masami and Walter Stahr Johanna Treichler Edith and Thomas Van Huss Lucia Van Ruiten Dave and Jaynine Warner Vina Williams and Tom Slattery Woody Youth Fund Mr. David Yeung and Ms. Oliva H. Wong Edward S. Yeung Mr. Robert Zasa and Ms. Judy Amiano

SOLOIST’S CIRCLE ($3,500‑$4,999)

Ms. Cheryl L. Carlson Ms. Wendy Castille David and Jenny Chang Mr. and Ms. Brian Chung Eileen Cirillo Helen and Wilfred Cohen Susan and Robert Crowson Mr. David Dunford Graham & TJ Forsyth E.G. and Anna Hornbostel Valeh Karimkhani Ms. Kari Kerr Mr. Curtis A. and Mrs. Varla E. N. Knauss Mrs. Chung M. Lee Mrs. Suzy Lee and Mr. Andrew Park Mr. and Ms. Brian W. Leecing Anne McInnis and Mark Smitt Haydee and Carlos Mollura Robert Moodey Catherine Pazemenas Herb Roth Jane and Robert L. Schneider Mr. and Dr. Christopher Scott Bill and Marsha Simmons South Coast Plaza June and Ron Stein Patricia and Charles Steinmann PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P25

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DONORS Dr. and Mrs. Ivan Turpin Stacey and Paul Von Berg Patricia and Richard Wallace Lynn and Frank Wagner Dr. Andrew Yen and Ms. Grace Chen

PERFORMER’S CIRCLE ($2,500‑$3,499)

Anonymous Mr. Dan Adams C.L. Alexander Raj and Marta Bhathal Stephanie and Dennis Blanchard Patricia M. Brenn, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bresnan Linda and David Bush Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chan Mr. and Mrs. Ted Chen

ANNUAL SUPPORT Mr. and Mrs. D. Robinson Cluck Laila Conlin Randy and Sally Crockett Ms. Lucetta Dunn Mr. Allen Ergo and Ms. Maureen Shea Mr. Dan Folwell and Mrs. Susan Scott Ms. Alison M. Glik Loren Peter Hansen and Lorraine Caukin Mark Paul Ike Kristin Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson Donna and John Jaecker Donna and David Janes Robin and Steven Kalota Carolyn and William Klein Dr. Valeh Karimkhani Susan and Jeff LeBoff Mr. and Mrs. Peter Moriarty

Dr. and Mrs. Steve Na Mr. and Mrs. John W. Prange Linda Owen Edmund and Martha Peyton Caroline Renken Janneke Resnick Bob Romney Adrianus Ruygrok Mr. Elton Siu and Vincy Fung Mr. Perry Soderberg, CFP Beverly Spring Daniel Temianka and Zeinab Dabbah Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie Mr. and Mrs. Mark Trumbo Ms. Charlotte Varzi Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard

BOX CIRCLE CLUB The Box Circle Club is a members‑only experience with exclusive seating and reception areas. Please call (714) 876‑2393 for more information about becoming a Box Circle Club member.

Anonymous Mr. Dan Adams Ms. Sarah J. Anderson and Mr. Thomas B. Rogers Leona Aronoff-Sadacca Sandra Smart-Ashburn and Harry Ashburn Dr. Fernando H. Austin Drs. Hana and Francisco Ayala Jennifer Bainum Virginia and Richard Boureston Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bresnan Howard and Dede Brink Carolyn D. Brown Ms. Cindy Chin Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Choi Suzanne and David Chonette Dan and Carlota Ciauri Ms. Rosalind Cole Victoria and David Collins Suzanne and Peter Desforges Mrs. Claudia Erticci Ruth Ann and John Evans Richlyn and Bob Evins Peggy and Jon Feder Hannareta and Gordon Fishman Bridget Ford Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Freed Freedom Communications Lynn and Douglas Freeman Petrina H. Friede, Professor Emeritus John and Carolyn Garrett Margaret Gates Eleanor and Michael Gordon Dolores Grunigen Nicholas Guanzon-Greenko, Tangram Interiors Marco Guido and Ashley Spindler Guido Hope Henry Hansen and Erik Hansen Roger Hanson Lucy Harrison Drs. Donald and Gwen Hecht Betty and Melvin Hoeffliger Celia Hoenig P26 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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Valerie and Barry Hon David L. Horowitz Family Linda and William W. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hull Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Huntley-Fenner Elizabeth Hyland Valerie and Hans Imhof Mr. Michael Ishikawa and Rochelle Bowe Donna and David Janes Gary and Betsy Jenkins Ms. Lucetta Kallis Robert Kleist Marc Levin Janice Lowther Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lubock Nancy Lyons Linda P. Maggard Sharon and Tom Malloy Richard and Roberta Mathies Rick and Pat McAuley Suki McCardle Mr. and Mrs. Terry McDonald Darrellyn and David Melilli Jenny and Steven Mizusawa Leslie and Harvey Moore Ms. Ferial Mosharaf Nancy and Rick Muth Alexandra and Peter Neptune Annette and Joseph Oltmans Anoosheh and Alan Oskouian Lauren and Richard Packard Mr. and Mrs. Ted Paulson Pat and John B. Peller Rev. and Mrs. Steven L. Perry Dorcas Preston Shiyao Peng and Robin Liu Janet and Stephen Rasch Stephanie Richards Michelle Rohé Dr. Ron Schilling Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Sally E. Segerstrom Leslie and Scott Seigel Ruth and David Seigle Drs. Jean and Evan Siegel Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Sims Mr. Elton Siu and Vincy Fung Janice and Ted Smith Wilbert D. Smith Mr. Perry Soderberg, CFP Elizabeth Stahr Walter Stahr June and Ron Stein Mr. and Mrs. Larry Stofko Ms. Mary-Christine Sungaila Drs. M. Linda and James D. Sutherland Linda Svehla Karen and Andrew Thorburn Christopher D. Tower and Robert E. Celio Troy Group / Dirk Family Dr. Betty Tu and Dr. David Tsoong W. Richard Ulmer Ginni and Kent Valley Stacey and Paul Von Berg Lynn and Frank Wagner Judy and Wes Whitmore Vina Williams and Tom Slattery Mr. and Mrs. Devin Wozencraft Kimberly and Allen Yourman Charlie and Ling Zhang

Box Circle Club sponsored by Cunard, official cruise line of Pacific Symphony.

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SYMPHONY 100 Symphony 100 is a women’s group dedicated to educating its members about classical music and supporting the artistic programming of Pacific Symphony.

Donna Anderson Rosalind Britton Amy Chen Carol Choi Suzanne Chonette Julie A. Davey Ginny Davies Susan De Santis Sandy DiSario Kathy Quisling Dunlap Ruth Ann Evans Patricia S. Felbringer Rosalie Lynn Friedman Ellie Gordon Lola Green Hope Henry Hansen Michelle Horowitz

Gwyn Hoyt Valerie Imhof Kari Kerr LaDonna Kienitz Andrea S. Kustin-Mager Joann Leatherby Luciana Marabella Rosalie Marsh-Boinus Dru Maurer Pat McAuley Elizabeth McClellan Ann McDonald Lynn McMaster Darrellyn Melilli Liz Merage Haydee Mollura Diana Moss

Dot Nelson Mrs. Dori Neuman Catherine Pazemenas Pat Podlich Chiyo Imai Rowe Donna Schroeder Patti Sheiner Janice F. Smith Beverly Spring Elizabeth Stahr Patricia A. Steinmann Stacey Von Berg Jaynine Warner Nella Webster Brigitta Werbin Janet Zaugg Joyce Zohar

SYMPHONY SOCIETY Symphony Society members provide important additional support to Pacific Symphony through annual contributions between $500 and $2,499.

CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($1,000‑$2,499)

Anonymous (4) Markus Aakko Dr. and Mrs. Donald R. Abrahm Mary Ann Adams Ms. Amy Amirani Ellen Breitman and Brien Amspoker Donna Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Jon Anderson Pasha and Mehr Arshadi Ms. Heather Arias de Cordoba Liz and Lee Aydelotte Barbara Benson Dr. Albert Barnett and Mrs. Ann Kuklierus Kathy and John Besnard Best Management Construction, Inc. Mr. Ryan Best Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Biller II Heidi and Roger Blackwell Mr. and Mrs. Gary Boggs Alan and Rosalie Boinus Dr. A G. Bowden Greg and Vicky Bowden Laurie Hudson Brian B Brady Mrs. Patricia Bueker Daniel and Charlotta Butler Lawrence and Leslie Cancellieri Valerie B. Cantwell Carlson-Solmssen Foundation Michael Cassidy Amy Chen Bao and Delia Chin Ms. Cindy Chin Ms. Lori A. Chozen

Dan and Carlota Ciauri Ms. Rosalind Cole Mr. Mark Conboy Phyllis Paxton and Alton Crowell Mr. and Mrs. Jerome W. Cwiertnia Dane Talent Connections Llc Ernani D’Angelo Catherine and Dean Dauger Lisa McLain and James Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Seth Davenport Marjorie and Roger Davisson Dr. Adrian de la Torre Ms. Susan A. De Santis Ms. Mary Debar Ms. Mae Delabarre Kathy and Lee Dick Dr. Walter Dietiker Ms. Sandra Dilores Joan M. Donahue Diane and John Dunham Kathy and Jerry Dunlap Ms. Judi Dutton Ainin and Tom Edman Nancy and Leonard Eisenberg Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ellis David and Leann Erickson Dr. David and Lois Erikson David R. Falconer Peggy and Jon Feder Patricia S. Felbinger Dr. and Mrs. William A. Fields Susan Hori and Monica Florian Ruby and Francis Foo Dr. Janet and John Fossum Mrs. Marilyn Forsstrom Mr. Steven Frates

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Philip Friedel Rosalie Lynn Friedman Ellen Fujikawa Mr. and Mrs. Sun Y. Fung Susan and John Gabriel Harold and Cathy Gilbert Pamela and Don Gilmour Susan Glass Barbara and Jackson Goffman Jacqueline Charnley and Gary Good Ildiko Good Mr. and Mrs. Curt Graham Carol and Robert Green Lola and Walter Green Ms. Patricia Grubman Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Guth Terry Hanna Hope Henry Hansen and Erik Hansen James Hardy Marilyn Heron Jennifer K. Ho Phylis and David Hsia Mr. Jon Hull and Mrs. Ioana Haigu Hull Karen Kewell Jacoby Eileen Jeanette Elizabeth and Gary Jenkins Patricia Jorgensen Carrie and William Joyce Barbara and Michael Karr Ladonna Kienitz Susan Kingsland Catherine and William Knauer Linda and Robert Knoth Debra Kornswiet-Shandling & Family Dr. and Mrs. Peter R. Kurzhals Mrs. Andrea S. Kustin-Mager

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DONORS Ms. Sherri Lapides Dale and Leo Larsen Dr. Geordie Lawry Dr. Xiaowu Liang Mr. and Mrs. Liao Mr. Thomas B. Lien and Ms. Joanne Tang Sam Liu and Maggie Liang Mr. Chuan-kai Lin Lesley and Bradley Lothers Nancy Lyons Timothy Maas Kay and John Maglica Luciana Marabella Mr. and Mrs. Orville L. Marlett Mr. and Mrs. Dale Marquis Patricia and Robert Marshall Richard and Roberta Mathies Mr. and Mrs. James McBride Suki McCardle William and Elizabeth McClellan Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. McGowan Ms. Ana Maria McGuan Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McLaughlin Charlene J. Metoyer Mr. and Mrs. Ty Meyer Angela and Nick Miller Mr. Matthew Minegar Dan Mitchell Jenny and Steven Mizusawa Eileen and David Moehring Eleanore Monroe Dr. Edwin S. Monuki Ms. Jeanette Moon Catherine and Harold Moore Ms. Ferial Mosharaf Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Moss Mr. and Mrs. Jay L. Moss Mrs. Joyce Murphy Kenneth S. Muzzy Christie and Robert Narver Patricia and Carl Neisser Ms. Laura Hunt Newman Ms. Dorothy J Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. O’Donnell Dr. Howard Okin Fredricka Older Mr. James Palmer Mr. Robert A. Penney Dorothea and Peter Perrin Kathleen Blank and Joan Petty Patricia J. Pilette Linda Piro-Duke Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pridonoff Mr. and Mrs. Charles Proctor Mrs. Harriett L. Proctor Karlena and Larry Rannals Dr. and Ms. Sanford L. Ratner Mrs. and Mr. Joni Reese Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reveal Mr. Timothy Ringgold Barbara Roberts Harriet Roop Gina and Reed Royalty Michele Saffell

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ANNUAL SUPPORT Dr. Deborah A. Sassoon and Dr. Daniel Walter Gil Dolores L. Schiffert Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Schlutz Orva and David Schramm Donna and Ernest Schroeder Carol K. Schwab Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Seaver Ruth and David Seigle Mr. and Ms. Donald Shackelford Claudette Shaw Patti Sheiner Nikta and Farrokh Shokooh Shari Simmons Bill and Louise Simpson Bob and Liz Sliepka Sanaz K. Soltani and Rakhshan Foroutan Craig M. and Kirsten R. Springer Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Stearns Mary Jo Stoutenburgh Mr. Michael Sui and Ms. Nancy Xie Lisa and Sean Sutton Sandra and Robert Teitsworth Mr. Alan Terricciano and Ms. Lisa Roetzel Ms. Donna Thiessen Earleen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Roger Thomas Joe and Karen Tison Sondi and Norman Townsend Mr. Steve Tsai and Ms. Helen Guo Dr. Betty Tu and Dr. David Tsoong Mr. and Mrs. John Ulrich Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wagner Nella Webster and Kevin O’Grady Birgatta and Dan Werbin Ms. Cheryl Winn-Sanders Steven Wolf & Karen Skirvin Priscilla Wolz Drs. James and Jennifer Wong Mirei and Shinobu Yoshida Kimberly and Allen Yourman Alfred and Lydia Yu Ms. Joyce Zohar

PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE ($500‑$999)

Anonymous (2) Christine Alden Barbara J. Alder Ms. Alexandria Allan Marisa Arpels Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Astrella Mark Ayers Mr. and Mrs. Paul Babic Barbara Baird Dr. Joe Baker Ronald Banks Fulvia and Alfredo Benavides Mr. and Mrs. Byron Blanco Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Bleak Mrs. Donna Bonugli Mr. and Mrs. Bayard E. Bosserman Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bridger Scott Brinkerhoff Mr. Steven Bronfenbrenner

Dr. Sharon Brooks and Mr. Knox Brooks Ms. Mary Broude Mr. and Mrs. Bart Brown Mr. Lawrence Brown Dr. and Dr. William E. Bunney Jane and Michael Burke Wendy Burton Mr. and Mrs. Marion L. Butterfield Jose and Karen Cabanillas III Dr. Thomas C. Campbell Mr. Carl and Dr. Cheryl Carrera Mr. and Mrs. Allen Carter Mr. and Mrs. William Cernius Ms. Kimi Chen Ms. Melinda Oronoz-Chen Drs. Robert and Patricia Chick Denise B. Chilcote Cynthia and Shigeru Chino Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Clark Dr. David Coder Jeri and Thierry Colaw Ms. Debra Collier John and Julia Consentino Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Corliss Sylvia and John Costello Bruce Crawford Mr. and Mrs. David M. Davis Elsa and Patrick Day George and Els Delanoy Robert Denham Veronica and Gerald DeVries Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dewey Mr. Claus A. Dieckell Deborah Doomey Ann and James Duvall Mr. and Mrs. John Elwood Katheryn Enders Irene and Alan Engard Mrs. Claudia Erticci Betty Everett Richlyn and Bob Evins Lou Fanelli Ms. Janet S. Feldmar Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ferreira Nancy Field Dr. and Mrs. Sidney A. Field Ellen and Michael Fine Hannareta and Gordon Fishman Joyce Fitch Elizabeth and Tom Fitzgerald Mr. Eugene G. Fontana and Ms. Rhonda S. Rios Arthur Forcier Ilona and Stanley Galant Sandy and Thomas Gallaugher Colette Gardner Ms. Julie Garner Holly Gatehouse Frederick and Trisha Gebhardt Mrs. and Mrs. Yitzhak Gewelber Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gibbs Mrs. and Mr. Harriet Ann Gillerman Ms. Lucille Gostenhofer Shell Grossman Dolores Grunigen

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DONORS Mr. and Mrs. Jeff J. Guell Diane and Eric Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Rick and Leigh Harlow Janie Hart Sunny Hartman Stephen Hayward Yaser Homsi Mrs. and Mr. Patricia Houston Lisa and Dale A. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hull Pamela L. Blake and David Isaak Jack and Molly Spiegel Memorial Fund Karen and James Jackman Charles Jackson Dr. Herbert Jennings James G. Johnson Boris Kamentser M’Liss and Robert J. Kane Lawrence Keller Rawloo Khalap Bijan Khamaian Mr. and Mrs. Chan Kim Adelyn and Dennis Klarin Elaine and Michael Kleinman Dogan Koslu Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krause Marianne and Leo E. Kreter Marilyn Kunde Paula and Kenneth Kunkel Mr. Roma Labelle and Ms. Chunxia Han Frank and Daria Lanak Martin Langer Mr. William Langsdorf Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Lansdon and Mrs. Troels Larsen Josephine Lee Ms. Kaii Lee Susan and Jim Lepere Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lester Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liebeck Gregory Lincoln and Cindy Gardon Ms. Laura Little Wayne D. Louvier Mr. and Ms. Jack Luster Steven and Tina Lustig Mr. Robert J. MacHott Mr. William C. Manes Kellina Martin Mr. and Ms. William H. May Marilyn McCorkle Melissa Hicks & Thomas McCormack Mary Beth McGowan Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McKnight Mr. and Ms. Timothy D. McMahon Mr. David McMillin Gisela Meier JoAnn Mercer Alexander and Catherine Miller Dr. Mark P. Miller Roger and Sally Miller Ajay Mishra Mr. John Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mitchell Patrick Morrissey

ANNUAL SUPPORT Judy and Donald L. Morrow Ms. Lori Morton Dr. Michael V. Moses and Dr. Katharine Gillespie Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Mosher Cameron and Elaine Mummery Rolland Murray Mrs. Carol Murrel Ann and Douglas Myles Mr. and Mrs. Mistuhiko Nakano Ms. Cheryl Newman Natalie J. Nichols Dr. Ronald L. Niece and Ms. Virginia A. Porter Mr. and Ms. Robert E. Nied Allison and Charles Nightingale Mr. Michael and Dr. Eugenia Nilsson Esmeralda and Bruce Ogilvie Dave Oleary Real Estate Team Ms. Janet F. Olsen Annette and Joseph Oltmans Linda Overby Mrs. Ann Owen Nikki Palley Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Fiona Parker Mr. John R. Patterson Ellen Olshansky and Richard Pattis Mr. Rodney Pearlman Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pederson Douglas Percell and Kathy Kelso Ms. Susan Pickle Mr. and Mrs. Nick Pirro Plastics Development, Inc. Victoria and Leonard Porcello Ralph and Patricia Prentiss Dorcas Preston James Preston Linda M. Pretzel-Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Gary Quinlan Janet and Stephen Rasch Dr. and Ms. Sanford L. Ratner Mr. John B. Redwine and Ms. Sandra L. Watson Terry and Carol Reinhold Mary Rence Ms. Carol Reynolds James Roache Barbara and Tom Roddel Harriet Roop Ms. Jerri L. Rosen Dr. Mona Rosenberg and Mr. Christopher Schran Ms. Carol Rosenthal Mr. Phillip M. Ruland Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rycroft Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Sabers Ms. Sylvia M. Salenius Richard and Sandi Sanders Mr. Harry Sauberman Gloria Schlaepfer Sharon Scholfield Karen and J. David Schweikle James N. Self Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sentovich Susana and Marvin Shirai Ingrid R. Shutkin Mr. Michael Shyne Arnold Silverman

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Morgan and Ann Simpson Ms. Christy L. Sims Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Sims Ms. Lindlee Sims Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Sims Ms. Gretchen Smith Sherrill and Michael Smith Mr. and Mrs. Dave Solomon Mr. Robert Spalek Mr. Edward J. Spear Joan Speckin Dr. Jean E. Sprengel Don and Dee St.Clair Ms. Ann B. Stanton Tracy Steele Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Stegemeier Marina and Stefan Steinberg Ms. Elizabeth Stiles Mr. and Mrs. Larry Stofko Jeff Streger Ms. Patricia S. Sullivan Ms. Ruth E. Sully Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sutton Heleni E. Suydam Dr. Sora P. Tanjasiri Mr. and Mrs. Albert Teng Mrs. Shirley Teng Andrea Tenner Ms. Linda Lee Tenno Mary and Peter Tennyson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Teskey Mr. and Ms. Corey Timpson Sylvia Traub Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Turner Robert and Sharon Turner Ms. Marjorie O. Tussing Rose and Donald Tyssee Nancy C. Untener Jenny and David Unterman Calvin Y. Uyeda Ms. Loretta van der Pol Ms. Kathy Vickers Marnie and Brett Wall Jenny Wang Barbara Watts Dr. and Mrs. Peter Wawro Mr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Weisman Mr. and Mrs. Stowell C. Werden Aimee Whitaker Sarah Wied Dr. Donald and Ann Williams Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Williams Mr. and Mrs. Richard Williams Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Wong Tony Wong Mr. James Woody and Ms. Kathleen McMurray Mr. Richard Wordes and Ms. Amy Hitchcock Venita and Todd Wulffson Mr. and Mrs. David Wyle Mr. Michael Yepiz Dr. Joanne B. Yoon

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DONORS

ANNUAL SUPPORT

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT CORPORATIONS AND CORPORATE FOUNDATIONS MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($100,000+) Avenue of the Arts Hotel Farmers & Merchants Bank Fieldstead & Company Kingston Technology PBS SoCal Regency Air Zion Enterprises, LLC

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE ($50,000–$99,999)

Classical KUSC K‑EARTH Microsemi Corporation OC Fair & Event Center Orco Block Company South Coast Plaza The Westin South Coast Plaza

STRADIVARIUS CIRCLE ($30,000–$49,999)

Bank of America California Southern University Capital Group Companies Chapman University Chevron Corporation Cunard SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Southern California Public Radio KPCC U.S. Bank/US Bancorp Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Windes, Inc.

VIRTUOSO CIRCLE ($20,000–$29,999)

COMPOSER’S CIRCLE ($5,000–$9,999)

California Closets California State University, Fullerton City National Bank Crowe Horwath LLP Disneyland Resorts East West Bank Golden State Wine Co. Prezents, Inc. Segerstrom Center for the Arts Tangram Interiors The UCI Foundation

Alaska Airlines Conrad Bora Bora Nui Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Gracious Giving Foundation J.P. Morgan Chase Manatt, Phelps & Philips, LLP Northern Trust Sapphire Laguna Starwood Resorts Taco Bell Tahiti.com Tsar Nicoulai Caviar Viking Cruises

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE ($15,000–$19,999)

BNY Mellon Express Employment Professionals Four Seasons Maui Greenburg Gross LLP Hoag Community Benefits KPMG, LLP Merrill Lynch Pacific Life Foundation Piaget South Coast Plaza Rosebay Management Group Sunrise Seagull Productions Van Cleef & Arpels South Coast Plaza

SOLOIST’S CIRCLE ($3,500–$4,999)

Anonymous Four Seasons George V, Paris RDJH Enterprises LLC Trico Realty Wyndham Vacation Rentals

A‑A Enterprises

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($10,000–$14,999)

PERFORMER’S CIRCLE ($2,500–$3,499)

Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC Chaplin Entertainment, Inc. Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Heritage Point

CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499)

Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility Edison International Soka University of America

PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE ($500–$999)

Anaheim Ducks Herb Lamb Vineyards Hotel Irvine Monarch Beach Resort Patiné Cellars Pont Neuf Progeny Winery Quilceda Creek Roger’s Realty, Inc. Turiya Wines St. Margaret’s Episcopal School William Cole Vineyards Wine Cellar Club, Inc., Steven Greenburg, President Wine Exchange

PERFORMER’S CIRCLE ($2,500–$3,499)

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($10,000–$14,999)

Bowers Museum Boys & Girls Club of Central Orange Coast Del Dotto Family Winery Fladeboe Honda H.J. Baker & Bro., Inc. Jon M. Grazer, MD, MPH, Inc. Las Vegas Sands Corporation Lexus of Newport Beach Mosier & Company, Inc. Nashville Wine Auction Newport Beach Country Club Orange County Business Council Orange County’s United Way Oscar de la Renta South Coast Plaza The Resort at Pelican Hill Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

FOUNDATIONS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($100,000+)

The Ahmanson Charitable Community Trust The Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation The James Irvine Foundation Jerry and Terri Kohl Family Foundation Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County Living Legacy Foundation National Christian Foundation New Music USA The Nicholas Endowment The Opus Foundation The Segerstrom Foundation The Simon Foundation for Education and Housing The Thompson Family Foundation

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE ($50,000–$99,999)

City of Irvine City of Mission Viejo The Joe MacPherson Foundation Merage Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities Orange County Community Foundation P30 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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STRADIVARIUS CIRCLE ($30,000–$49,999)

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Bank of America Charitable Foundation California Arts Council The Colburn Foundation Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation Orchestras’ Futures Fund of the League of American Orchestras

VIRTUOSO CIRCLE ($20,000–$29,999)

Asian Pacific Community Fund Ernest and Irma Rose Foundation The Green Foundation Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers Foundation Margolis Family Foundation Troob Family Foundation Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE ($15,000–$19,999)

Blossom Siegel Family Foundation League of American Orchestras Loftus Family Foundation St. Louis Community Foundation

Anonymous City of Santa Ana The Crean Foundation Croul Family Foundation David and Molly Pyott Foundation The Shanbrom Family Foundation Nellie Leaman Taft Foundation

COMPOSER’S CIRCLE ($5,000–$9,999)

The E. Nakamichi Foundation Jane Deming Fund Johnson Family Foundation Labowe Family Foundation Lonie Bosserman Fund Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/LYRASIS Miracle Foundation Newport Beach Arts Commission O. L. Halsell Foundation Ueberroth Family Foundation Uncork for Hope Foundation

D’Addario Foundation Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Miracle Fund Foundation Robinson Foundation Roosters Foundation

CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499) The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation The Millstream Fund Vanguard Charitable Endowment

PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE ($500–$999) The Brock Foundation Classics Alive Foundation

SOLOIST’S CIRCLE ($3,500–$4,999)

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IN MEMORIAM AND TRIBUTE GIFTS IN MEMORY OF Gifts in memory of John R. Stahr Mr. and Mrs. Jon Anderson Susan and Sam Anderson Randy Bassett Mrs. Donna Bonugli Mr. and Mrs. William Cernius Bao and Delia Chin Helen and San Chin Dr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Clark Michele and John Forsyte Gary Good Phylis and David Hsia Eileen Jeanette Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jeppe Mike and Ellie Gordon Mrs. Barbara Sue Johnson Jo Anne Johnson Damien and Yvonne Jordan Tracy and Roger Kirwan Bill and Evelyn Kroener Mr. and Mrs. William B. Langsdorf Ms. Sharon McNalley Mr. and Mrs. Mitsuhiko Nakano Marilyn and Thomas Nielsen Patricia and William Podlich

Herbert Roth Leona Sadacca Donna and Ernest Shroeder Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Seaver James N. Self Mr. Michael Shyne Smith and Silbar LLP Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Spitz Mr. and Mrs. William S. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie Patricia and Richard Wallace Jane Fujishige Yada Mirei and Shinobu Yoshida Marcia and John L. Cashion Suzanne and David Chonette David and Beverly Carmichael Tekie and Don Shackelford Margaret M. Gates Mary Lou Moore Terry and Carol Reinhold David Sklansky and Deborah Lambe Cathy Zehner Lisa and Sean Sutton

Gifts in honor of Joann Leatherby Amanda and Kevin Johnson

Gifts in honor of Michael Kerr Judy and David Applebaum

Gifts in honor of Carl St.Clair Sally Bender

Gifts in honor of Joann Leatherby and Greg Bates Mr. and Mrs. Irving Chase

Gifts in honor of Richard Kaufman CarolAnn Tassios Harold and Cathy Gilbert Sally Bender

Gifts in honor of Roberta Swain Ms. Katherine Swain

Gifts in memory of Bob Yellin Michele and John Forsyte Mike and Ellie Gordon Gifts in memory of Ed Goldstein Sarah Garrett Gifts in memory of Genie Epperson Eileen Jeanette Gifts in memory of James Sellers Eileen Jeanette Gifts in memory of James W. Justice Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Kurosaki Mr. and Mrs. Jim McGee Gifts in memory of Dr. David Isaak Pamela Blake

Gifts in memory of Kathy Blank David and Carole Teegarden Gifts in memory of Lamar M. Hill James and Elaine Alexiou Joyce Allen Justice Janet R. Kelly Nikki Palley Richard Price Tom and Marilyn Sutton Mary Janice Wallace Gifts in memory of Lewis Einbund David and Michelle Bornstein Gifts in memory of Linda Yellin Mike and Ellie Gordon Gifts in memory of Mary Pelletier Eileen Jeanette Gifts in memory of Paul Lennard Edward Merrilees Nikki Palley Geoffrey O’Donoghue

IN HONOR OF

Gifts in honor of John E. Forsyte Rabbi Arnold Rachlis

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF EXECUTIVE OFFICE John E. Forsyte President & CEO Sean Sutton Executive Vice President & COO Eileen Jeanette Senior Vice President of Artistic Planning & Production ARTISTIC & ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Bella Sunshine

Senior Director of Operations Craig Hahn

Director of Orchestra Personnel Will Hunter

Director of Production

Nikki Palley

Senior Director of Major Gifts Luisa Cariaga

Director of Institutional Giving Maggie Thompson

Director of Special Events Michael Lawler

Director of Individual Giving and Governing Members

William Pruett

Director of Multimedia Operations

Joseph Schillaci

Director of Major Gifts, Education & Community Giving

Shawne Zarubica

Managing Director, Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles Alison Spaeth

Orchestra Librarian Dani Reynolds

Artistic Services Manager Cameron Reeves

Operations Coordinator

Sam Nordrum

Patron Programs Associate Ashlyn Ronkes

Patron Stewardship Associate Gift Processor Stephanie Glover

Development Department Administrative Assistant

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Susan Miller Kotses

Vice President of Education & Community Engagement

Jared Brown

Youth Orchestra Manager

Mary Hawkes

Director of Community Engagement

Mel Domingo

Santiago Strings Manager Haiyang Wang

Kurt Mortensen

Director of Audience Engagement

Youth Concert Band Manager

Alison Levinson

Director of Arts Engagement

DEVELOPMENT Gregory Pierre Cox, CFRE, CSPG

Vice President of Development & External Relations Gary Good, CFRE

Senior Executive for Legacy & Endowment Giving

Arts Engagement Manager Carrie Villanueva Education Projects Manager Karen Akiyoshi

Class Act Regional Manager Evelyn Miller

Class Act Regional Manager Payal Swami

Class Act Regional Manager & Program Coordinator Carmen Marquez

Santa Ana Strings Coordinator Vita Muccia

Education & Community Engagement Coordinator

FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION & IT

Jonathan Terry

Director of Education Daniel Oguri

Heartstrings Manager

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Garrett Collins

Vice President of Marketing & Communications Jean Oelrich

Director of Communications Heather Arias de Cordoba

Acting Director of Marketing and Loyalty Programs Lorraine Caukin

Director of Sales Paul Harkins

Director of Creative Services Kathryn Mudgway

Public Relations & Social Media Associate Isabel Wiemken

Graphic Designer

Jesse Hiser

Senior Director of Finance Abby Edmunds

Assistant Stage Manager Youth Wind Ensemble Manager & PSYE Auditions Coordinator

Eileen Regullano

Kristin Nyquist

Keilani Spahn

Nicole Kroesen

Sharon Lee Executive Assistant

Director of Volunteer Services Ludmila Passioukova

Accounts Receivable Associate Sandra Perez

Payroll & Benefits Administrator Yolanda Reyes

GL Associate Matthew Vu

Accounts Payable Associate Kerry Zeitler

PATRON SERVICES Brian Smith

Director of Ticketing Services Tony Julik

Assistant Manager of Ticketing Services Chuck Clemens

Lead Sales Associate Susan Ruzbasan

Ticket Sales & Service Associate Ralph Tumanan

Ticketing Sales & Service Associate

Data Assistant

COUNSEL Forward Counsel, LLP

General Counsel Robert Kane, Stuart Kane LLP

Labor Counsel

Dr. Paula Propst Education Manager

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Emerson String Quartet: Penultimate Visit to the Center “The Emerson performances represented an extraordinary fusion of experience and authority with audacity and freshness.” —The Boston Globe

DON’T MISS the penultimate performance of the Emerson String Quartet at the Center.

Penultimate?

Yes, 47 years after it was it was formed, the Emerson announced last year that at the end of summer in 2023 it would be disbanding. The members, which include two of the original musicians, decided this was a good time to retire the quartet, allowing them to spend time on solo work as well as teaching.

The May 5 performance will include works by Bartók, Beethoven, and Mozart. The Center will present the Emerson for a final performance here in 2023.

The Center has been lucky to have the Emerson perform here 29 times in our 35-year history. The quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premiere chamber music ensembles. It has made more than 30 recordings which have won nine Grammy Awards. The ensemble has collaborated with esteemed composers to premiere new works, and with stellar soloists, including Renée Fleming, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, and Yefim Brofman.

Emerson was one of the first quartets to have its violinists alternate in the first violin position.

“We’ve been playing together for a really long

time,” said Emerson violinist Eugene Drucker, who has been with the ensemble from its beginning. “It’s been a great, long ride for us. The literature that we’ve been privileged to play is just amazing.”

Philip Setzer, also a founding member and violinist, says he’s looking forward to “the opportunity to continue performing as [a soloist] and pass the fruits of our experience on to younger generations of chamber players.”

In addition to their concert touring, the Emerson members have been long-time teachers and mentors at SUNY Stoney Brook. In 2017 the university created the Emerson String Quartet Institute, an academic program where the quartet will continue to teach. The previous year the State University of New York awarded full-time Stony Brook professors Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton the status of Distinguished Professor. Part-time faculty members Eugene Drucker and Paul Watkins were given the title of Honorary Distinguished Professor.

“At a certain point, you think, ‘Let’s end when we’re all really playing our best and the group sounds good,’” says Setzer. Some might say these artists will sound great for many more years. Now is the time to get your tickets for this special performance.

SAMUELI THEATER Date: May 5 | Tickets: $29 and up

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Creating a Lasting Legacy

AS YOU READ THIS, you are looking forward to enjoying a performance at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, but will there be performances for future generations? The Center’s Legacy Society invites you to help ensure the Center can continue its mission of quality artistic programming and education programs.

The Legacy Society honors individuals who have made a commitment to contribute a planned gift to the Center to help secure the future of this outstanding organization. A planned gift helps you achieve your philanthropic and personal goals for you and your loved ones, as well as provide greater financial flexibility and significant tax benefits.

There are many ways to include the Center in your estate plans that can be created at any time.

Have you already included the Center in your estate plans? Let us know so we can celebrate the value you place upon the arts. For those thoughtful individuals who make planned gifts, the Center is pleased to honor them (with permission) in monthly performance programs and at an exclusive Legacy Society event.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Kurila at EKurila@SCFTA.org or visit SCFTA.giftlegacy.com today.

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Become a Supporter Ticket sales cover only a portion of the Center’s operating costs. Join our family of supporters today to ensure Segerstrom Center for the Arts remains Orange County’s home for world-class performances, arts education programs, and community engagement events.

Become a Friend of the Center with a donation starting at only $75! Enjoy special Friends perks all while keeping the arts alive in our community.

Email Friends@SCFTA.org or call (714) 556-2122 x4469

Elevate your engagement with the Center! Join our Center Circles family with a minimum annual donation of $2,500 to mingle with fellow art aficionados at exclusive behind-the-scenes events and indulge in other VIP benefits!

Email Circles@SCFTA.org or call (714) 556-2122 x4367

WHAT YOUR GIFT CAN DO: • $75 provides a live musician for one class in Studio D: Arts School for All Abilities • $250 provides one hands-on arts education workshop at a local school • $500 allows one bus full of students to attend a performance at the Center • $1,500 brings two full months’ worth of instructors for Tuesday Night Dance on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza • $2,500 provides professional development training to 100 teachers on how to integrate the arts into their classrooms

READY TO JOIN? Visit SCFTA.org/Donate to make your tax-deductible donation today!

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A Center Program Is Always at Your Fingertips THERE’S A NEW WAY to see a show program at the Center. Get out your phone, text the word “Center” to 55741, and our new, digital program will pop up.

Supported by Performances, our print program publisher, the interactive digital platform offers not just the show program, but also information about the Center, stories from the print program about upcoming shows and events, and QR codes for even more insight. You can pull up our calendar, find your name on our donor lists, and read Center Connections, our online newsletter.

The Center’s Artistic Partners will also have a presence on this platform with their own program information. Patrons will use the same text code since every program at the Center will be on the home page.

Patrons can access the program any time on show day to read about the cast of a Broadway musical, bios of cabaret and jazz artists and more before they arrive at the Center. On days when there are more than one performance on campus, a slider graphic will revolve between images for each show.

Just click on the screen image for the performance you plan to see and you will be connected to that program. Post-performance programs can still be accessed on the hamburger menu by clicking on “theater programs” then “past performances.”

When using the site inside the theater, there’s no need to worry about a bright screen disturbing those around you. As the house lights go down, the screen automatically goes dark, and will come back again when the lights come on.

This platform will not replace the printed programs, which are still available—patrons can use one or the other or both! We are happy to be able to offer this option, and as we move forward we will keep you posted about other ways we are working to enhance your visits to the Center.

ABOUT THE CENTER EVENTS DONORS CENTER CONNECTION

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Donors Segerstrom Center for the Arts is enormously grateful for the support from the donors listed on the following pages. Your generosity empowers the Center to provide dynamic performances and artistic education programs for all of Orange County. You allow us to continue our promise to become an inclusive cultural resource for our entire community. Thank you!

CUMULATIVE GIVING

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is deeply grateful to the following donors who have provided extraordinary support during their lifetime: $10,000,000 + Anonymous Angels of the Arts Julia and George Argyros/ Argyros Family Foundation Audrey Steele Burnand* Sandy Segerstrom Daniels William J. Gillespie* Mr. and Mrs. David Wayne Grant The Guilds of the Center Richard C.* and Virginia A.* Hunsaker Mr. Donald E. and Lacy Moriarty Eugene* and Ruth Ann* Moriarty Jean Moriarty Richard A. and Marilyn Kayla Moriarty Steven and Susan Perry Susan and Henry Samueli Sally E. Segerstrom and Toby Andrews Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Henry T* and Renée* Segerstrom Ruth Segerstrom* Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom Mr. Toren H. Segerstrom Veronica P. Segerstrom Mrs. Yvonne Segerstrom* South Coast Plaza Mrs. Richard Steele* $5,000,000 + Bank of America/ Bank of America Foundation Jane and Jim Driscoll Steve* and Cindy Fry/ Fry Family Foundation The James Irvine Foundation The Ralph Leatherby Family General* and Mrs. William Lyon Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer Harry and Grace Steele Foundation Swenson Family Foundation $1,000,000 + Anonymous (4) Bette and Wylie Aitken Ginger and Tony Allen Zee M. Allred, Dean C. Allred, Carol Ann Allred Starr Automobile Club of Southern California Mr.* and Mrs. James P. Baldwin The Beall Family Mrs. D. James Bentley* Mr.* and Mrs.* William J. Bettingen Mr.* and Mrs.* Grant Bettingen Marta and Raj Bhathal The Boeing Community Foundation Deborah and Larry J. Bridges Broadway Across America

California Bank & Trust Missy and Chris Callero Eileen J. Cirillo Mrs. Mary Ellen Conzelman Cox Communications/Cox Media Sally and Randy Crockett Delta Air Lines Benjamin and Carmela Du Edison International Mr. and Mrs. Moti Ferder, Lugano Diamonds The First American Corporation Fluor Corporation/The Fluor Foundation Paul F. and Daranne Folino Leo Freedman Foundation Patricia Fredricks-Dolson Freedom Communications, Inc. June M. Fry* John and Toni Ginger Michael and Eleanor Gordon Nora* and Charles* Hester and the Hester Family Foundation Lawrence and Dolores Higby George Hoag Family Foundation Mark and Kristine Howlett The Irvine Company Mark Chapin Johnson W. M. Keck Foundation Kia Motors America, Inc. Roger and Tracy Kirwan Kling Family Foundation Margaret G*. and Thomas E*. Larkin Corey and Leslie Leyton Sharon D. Lund Foundation Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Mrs. Colleen Manchester Paul and Lilly Merage Mercedes-Benz USA David and Kathryn Moore Mrs. Mary E. Moore Rick Muth Family/ORCO Block Pam and Jim Muzzy Dr. Henry Nicholas, III Ms. Stacey Nicholas Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. O’Bryan Pacific Life Bill and Pat Podlich Mrs. Marjorie T. Rawlins* Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts Michelle Rohé Rutan & Tucker, LLP The Samueli Foundation The Segerstrom Foundation Ms. Donna Shannon Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith The Sommerville Trust Spectrum Reach Georgia Hull Spooner* Dorothy Stillwell* Tara and David Troob Union Bank Elizabeth Colyear Vincent* Jean and Tim Weiss

Wells Fargo Bank/Wells Fargo Foundation Mrs. Constance T. Whitney* Cecil C.* and Kathryn H.* Wright $500,000 + Anonymous Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen The Allergan Foundation Doug and Jaimee Baker Dr.* and Mrs.* Arnold O. Beckman Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach Drs. Fran* and Charlie* Cacha Cartier David and Victoria Collins Mary and Richard* Cramer James* and Catherine Emmi Andy and Joan Fimiano Carole and Robert* Follman Carol Frobish Harriett F. Grant* Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson Maralou and Jerry Harrington Clifford S. Heinz* S.L. and Betty Huang/ Huang Family Foundation JPMorgan Chase/ JPMorgan Chase Foundation Barbara and Robert Kleist Curtis A. and Varla E. N. Knauss Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald Dr.* and Mrs. Randall R. McCardle Marcia L. Millen, in memory of James and Leath Millen Mrs. Mary M. Muth* NORDSTROM The Peter Ochs Family Trish and John* O’Donnell Mr. John E. Pope and Ms. Jackie Singer Charles* and Patricia Poss Ralphs/Food 4 Less The Reinhold Foundation Rockwell International Carlene Rona* Eve and Michael J. Ruffatto Bev and Bob Sandelman Karalyn and Joseph* Schuchert Nick and Heidi Shahrestany The Shanbrom Family Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen Shea Shea Homes Foundation Janice and Ted Smith Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine David and Diane Steffy Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family Mr.* and Mrs. Joseph M. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family Valeant Pharmaceuticals Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Warmington Jaynine and Dave Warner Carol and Kent Wilken

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Corporate and Foundation Support Segerstrom Center for the Arts is pleased to thank the following corporations and foundations for providing annual contributions to the Center in support of our artistic and community education programs and our special event and performance sponsorships throughout the year.*

LEAD PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION SPONSORS

JAMES PREVITI FAMILY FOUNDATION

BLOCK & HARDSCAPE

Family Owned Since 1946

THE SEGERSTROM FOUNDATION

2021 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS Anonymous ABM Industries Behr Paint Company Brown & Streza, LLP Canterbury Consulting Chanil Foundation Charles Schwab Chubb Insurance Crean Foundation E. Nakamichi Foundation EnergizeStudents.org The Fletcher Jones Foundation Golden State Foods Foundation Max Factor Family Foundation Nordstrom Orange County Community Foundation SoCal Gas Warne Family Charitable Foundation WealthWise Financial Services Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers Yamaha Corporation of America

To learn more about the Center’s corporate and foundation partnership opportunities and the benefits available, please contact CorpSupport@SCFTA.org or (714) 942-6302.

BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

A special thank you to the Center’s Business Leadership Committee for demonstrating their citizenship and supporting our innovative arts education programs.

Co-Chairs: James C. Cascone, Deloitte & Touche, LLP Lupe Erwin, Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers Members: Zelma M. Allred, Pool Water Products Jesse D. Bagley, PeopleSpace Mark G. Cook, SingerLewak LLP John Evans Loreen Gilbert, WealthWise Financial Services Joseph Hensley, U.S. Bank Lawrence M. Higby David Jewell, Yamaha Corporation of America Roger Kirwan, Woodside Credit Jack Kline, Christie Digital Andrew Low, UBS Financial Services William F. Meehan, Rutan & Tucker, LLP Rick Muth, ORCO Block & Hardscape Rick Nogueira, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Mark C. Perry, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Tim Strader, Starpointe Ventures Richard Streza, Brown & Streza, LLP Samuel Tang, TriGuard Montauk Gaddi Vasquez * as of January 4, 2022

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Donors CENTER FUND

The Center Fund provides general operating support on an annual basis for Segestrom Center for the Arts and its programs. We are honored to recognize the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their gifts between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021.

Your generosity makes a difference every day—and we thank you! To learn more about the Center Fund and the benefits of giving, please contact Malika Middlebrooks at (714) 942-6214, or MMiddlebrooks@SCFTA.org. $200,000+ Anonymous Julia and George Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation Gloria Brandes Sandy Segerstrom Daniels The Guilds of the Center Phillip N. & Mary A. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyer Eugene* and Ruth Ann* Moriarty Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom $100,000+ Anonymous Marta and Raj Bhathal Kevin and Denise Cassin Center Tower Associates / Chase McLaughlin Ann Conway Family Jane and Jim Driscoll Kling Family Foundation / Jackie Glass Jenny and Jeff Gross Roger and Tracy Kirwan Paul and Lilly Merage Chipotle Mexican Grill / Jennifer and Brian Niccol Bill and Pat Podlich Michelle Rohé Michael* and Stacy Schlinger Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer $50,000+ Anonymous Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Ginger and Tony Allen Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bland Deborah and Larry J. Bridges Douglas T. Burch, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Mark Chan Bobbi Cox Sally and Randy Crockett David and Molly Pyott Foundation Dior Mr. and Mrs. Andy Fimiano Diane and Joyce Froot John and Toni Ginger Mr. and Ms. Mark Hales S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation Barbara Hiller Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Burt Jolly Mike and Lynn Joseph Don and Soogie Kang Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon Louis Vuitton Dr.* and Mrs. Randall R. McCardle Rick Muth Family/ORCO Block Lana and Walter Parsadayan Carol and Mark Perry Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry John and Sherry Phelan Bobbie Howe and Jim Previti Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Sally E. Segerstrom Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom Bill and Ronna Shipman Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel Stewart R. Smith and Robin A. Ferracone Steven M. Sorenson, M.D. Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family Tammy and Samuel Tang The Tappan Foundation Tara and David Troob Ambassador and Mrs. Gaddi H. Vasquez Jaynine and Dave Warner Carol and Kent Wilken Charles and Ling Zhang $35,000+ Dr. and Mrs. Bartley Asner Eileen J. Cirillo Benjamin and Carmela Du Lawrence and Dolores Higby Bonnie and Paul Lubock Amy and Jesse Bagley / PeopleSpace The Phillips Family Trust Patricia Poss Chuck and Jill Schreiber Amy and Jeffrey Vieth $25,000+ Elizabeth An and Gordon Clune Mr. and Mrs. Eyal Aronoff Alfred and DeeAnn* Baldwin The Beall Family Mary and Richard* Cramer Donna L. Kendall Foundation Allan* and Sandy Fainbarg GOAL Foundation Maralou and Jerry Harrington Deborah H. and Jeffrey H. Margolis Haydee and Carlos A. Mollura Carolyn Zarate-Ramsey and Robert Ramsey Michelle Rohé Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation Bev and Bob Sandelman Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine David and Diane Steffy Mrs. Valaree Wahler $15,000+ Toni and Steven Berlinger Barbara and Alex Bowie The Cameron Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Cancellieri Mary and John Carrington Janet L. Curci Maria Declusin Mr. and Mrs. W. James Edwards III Dr. and Mrs. David Eggleston Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Estabrooks Angela Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grody Marlene and Sam* Hamontree Kim and Scott Harris-Weiner Gavin and Ninetta Herbert Mr. and Mrs. Jason Howard Jessica and James Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy M. Jones Karla Kraft and Anderee Berengian Corey and Leslie Leyton Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Livingston Douglas (Tad) Lowrey and Gayle Lowrey Charles* and Twyla Martin Rebecca and Carl McLarand Louise Merage Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moorhead Pam and Jim Muzzy Mr. John R. Patterson

Mary Phillipp and David Johnson Susan and Henry Samueli Melinda and Steven Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Bert Selva Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon Mr. James Sommerville Dr. and Mrs. Charles Steinmann Mindy and Glenn Stearns Sue and Ralph Stern Stephanie and Cory Sukert Donna and Ray Thagard, Jr. Mr. Mark Tomaino and Ms. Diana Martin Stacey and Paul Von Berg $10,000+ Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus Arman Tom and Pam Bender Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bergman Steven and Herma Brenneis Ms. Barbara Cline Gunnel Cole Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II Founders Plus Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Francis Lynn and Douglas K. Freeman Doug and Julie Garn Mr. and Mrs. John C. Garrett Mrs. Robin Glasser Mr. and Mrs. Craigar Grosvenor Mrs. Vicki Gumm Dr. and Mrs. Gary T. Jenkins Gay and Rob Johnson Keller Family Fund Harmon and Lea Kong Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Kuluris Dr. and Mrs. Milton Legome Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. William Meehan Scott and Jasmine Morielli Mr. Maurice Murray Robert* and LaDorna Eichenberg Patrick E. Paddon and S. Leslie Jewett Shannon and Vincent Pozzuoli Hilary Roberts and Gregory Weith Patricia and Stephen Scarborough Ms. Pamela M. Schmider Mr. and Mrs. Damon Shelly Richard and Patricia Shinto Shorebreak Foundation, LLC Mrs. and Mr. Amita Singh Mrs. Barbara Steele Williams Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Vanderhook Jason Wahler $5,000+ Anonymous (2) Mr.* and Mrs. Byron Allumbaugh Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Anderson Dr. Fernando H. Austin Katheryn Baker Sally Bender Lisa and Richard Merage The Bish Family Jany Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Dean Peter and Suzanne Desforges Mrs. Ishani M. Dhillon P. K. Donahoe Roger du Plessis Ms. Lupe Erwin Ray* and Pat Felbinger Mrs. Nancy Field Ms. Renée Fourcade Lynn and Douglas K. Freeman Frome Family Foundation Howard Gleicher / Damon Chen Antoinette Green, Joanne Scott* and Peggy Wiemann APRIL 2022 25

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Donors Pat and Gene Hancock Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson Karen Hardin-Swickard Ms. Kerry L. Hedley Gary* and Sara, Frank and Brad Hinman Ms. Marci Hollander Mr. and Mrs. William K. Hood David L. Horowitz Family Diane and Harry Johnson Janice M. and Roger* W. Johnson Curtis A. and Varla E. N. Knauss Eve Kornyei Peter C. and Bonnie S.* Kremer Jim and Gale Luce Patricia Ann and Robert M. Marshall Maxmara Michelle Merage John and Karen Meston Harvey and Leslie Moore Mr. and Mrs. Keith Murray Bob and Christie Narver Cheryl Hill Oakes Yvette Pergola Carol Primm Walter and Renate Rados Robert and Helga Pralle Family Foundation Marilyn Hester Robbins and William H. Robbins Charles and Kathy Rosenberger Jan Vitti Rubel Sandy and Harriet Sandhu Claudette Shaw Mary Shebell and Merle McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Evan Slavik Linda I. Smith Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Strader Swenson Family Foundation Mrs. Linda Yellin* Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. Zipser $2,500+ Anonymous (2) Mr.* and Mrs. Howard Abel Bette and Wylie Aitken Ms. Kathy R. Akashi James and Elaine Alexiou Alfred E. Mann Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bain Mr. and Mrs. Joel Benkie Barbara J. Benson The Beverly and Albert Zacky Family Foundation Mark and Marilyn Bleak Mr. and Mrs. David C. Brown Mrs. Kerrie Buncher Kimberly Burge Sylvia Burnett Cheryl Carlson Ms. Donna Carter Dr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Chapman Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino Mr. and Mrs. David W. Chonette Ronna and Donald Coe Mrs. Mary Ellen Conzelman Corkett/Myers Families Michael and Anne Crawford Mr. and Mrs. David M. Cunningham John L. Curci David and Victoria Collins Family Fund Noël Davis Gregg Denicola, M.D. Mrs. Sandra Donahoe Mr. Kenneth Donaldson Michael Dreyer / Mann Family Foundation Judi Dutton Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Eng Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Evarts Robert Farnsworth Ms. Roberta Feuerstein

Ashley and Zach Fischer Mrs. Victoria L. Fitch Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanagan Carole and Robert* Follman Ms. Gwen Forquer Fountain Orthotics & Prosthetics Iris and Arnold Frankel Steve* and Cindy Fry Mike and Sharon Galassi Dr. and Mrs. Alan B. Gazzaniga Ms. Marne A. Glass Michael and Eleanor Gordon Mr. William Gordon and Dr. Susan M. Condrey Ms. Mary Gilly Graham Marie and Robert* Gray Bruce and Eileen Harrigan Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hartline Hendo Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Himes Carl and Ruby Hoffman Teri Kennady Mr. and Mrs. Jim Irwin Kristin Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jaffee Donna and David* Janes Tom Jenkins Mr. David Jewell Ms. Rosana Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keith Jennifer Keller Gisela Kugler, in memory of Robert P. Kugler Dr.* and Mrs. Paul K. Lam Joann Leatherby and Greg Bates Kevin and Doris Lee Ms. Michelle Lee Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Edward LeVasseur, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Lewis Dr. and Mrs. William J. Link Michelle A. Lund Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mairena Mr. and Mrs. Mawhorter Mr. and Mrs. James V. Mazzo Toni and Terry McDonald Susan Mears Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Meltzer Gail Meredith and Dean Garrison Tom and Naomi Moon Scott and Susan Moore Janis and David P. Murray The Minoru Nitta Family Mr. and Mrs. Rick Nogueira Trish and John* O’Donnell Evelyn and Pete Parrella Mr. and Mrs. William O. Passo Mr. Keith A. Pelan John and Pat Peller Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perricone Mr. Willard Pierce Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Polonsky Mr. and Mrs. Charles Proctor Harriett Proctor Marcia Kay and Ron Radelet John Rallis and Mary Lynn Bergman-Rallis Mary and Carl Raymond Suzanne C. and Jim H. Reinhardt Joel and Lilya Reiss Joan Riach Gayner Georgia and Robert Roth Paul and Mary Sackman Mr.* and Mrs. Jack A. Sage Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schneider Joan and Alan Sellers Mr.* and Mrs. William N. Shattuck Ms. Maureen Shea Dr. John J. Smith and Mr. Edward R. Escoto Ms. Kim Smith

Janice and Ted Smith Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spanos Nancy and Geoffrey Stack Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stark Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Steele Marilen and Martin* Steiger Ruth E. Sully Mr. Lee R. Sutherland Peter and Mary Tennyson Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie, Jr. Nancy Tseng S. Vander Wal and S. Vincent Ms. Isabelle Villasenor Megan and John Waldeck Mr. Jeff Walden Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard Hal and Cheri Wright Paul and Cheryl Wyrick Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yourman $1,500+ Anonymous Ms. Donna Anderson and Mr. Ronald Willut Irene B. Kamin Susan White Sharon Barrett Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach Ms. Donna S. Bianchi Phil and Judy Binder Randy and Maria Blake Bill and Judy Brady Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Brandes Charlie and Margie Bunten Nancy N. Burnett Mr. Robert E. Burns Mr. Brian Lindley and Mrs. Maile Busby-Lindley Daniel Callahan Missy and Chris Callero Ms. Donna F. Calvert Jean Campbell Michael and Elizabeth Chao Mr. and Mrs. William Chiles Lori and Harper Chozen Ms. Shari Cipolla Ms. Sharon A. Cleaver Robert and Diana Clemmer Ms. Mary Coates Gail and Jim Daniels Barbara and Adrian DeGroot Mr. John Delaney III Jerry and Kathy Dunlap Frances L. Dye Shari and Harry Esayian Dottie and Bill Feeney Ms. Kaaryn File Mrs. Cristy Fischbeck Cliff and Kathy Fleming Christine Flowers Janet Ford Loretta Freund and Howard DeMar Mr.* and Mrs.* T. Fukunaga/ Kay K. Fukunaga Marte* and Jack Ganoung Joan Garner Margaret Gates Gerrie Goodreau Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gorum Kathy and Carl Greenwood Sharon and John Gregg Angela Sue Helin Toni Hoyt Mark Paul Ike Carol Jackson Buzz* and Joan Jackson Laurie Jacobs The Jaffe Family Foundation Dolores and Mike Johnson

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Kenneth L. and Marilyn C. Jones Norma Jones Ms. Gladys Kares Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Kern Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Kobayashi Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Koetting Mr. and Mrs. Barry Konier Mr. Jesse W. Laney Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lester Jaye Ruth Levy Mr. and Mrs. Sam Liao Robert* and Janet Lind Ms. Karen Linton Ms. Margaret M. Lord In Memory of Ed Lynch Ms. Lynne E. MacVean Mrs. Colleen Manchester Dr. and Mrs. William Manclark Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Martens George and Sarah McDaniel Robert and Patricia McLaughlin Ray Melissa and Elena Bedford Mr. and Mrs. Frank Metz Steven and Jenny Mizusawa Moises Montoya Yolanda Santos Mr. Gregory W. Newland Dr. Abdel Salam M. Niazy Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Norman Ms. Dawn O’Rourke Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Packard Ms. Katrina L. Pelto Beverly and Jim Peters Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pitts Randall* and Cecilia Presley Patricia Price and Craig Behrens Mr. and Mrs. David Quisling Michael Reimer Michelle A. Reinglass Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Ronnenberg Ms. Christy A. Rosen Ronna and Marshall Rown, M.D. Don Rubin Lisa Rutherford Ms. Janet Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Gary Schaumburg David and Orva Schramm Ms. Denise Schuler Mr. and Mrs. William C. Shepherd Linda and Ed Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Long Shung Shih Mrs. Ingrid R. Shutkin Ms. Shari Simmons Lance and Deborah Slimmer Barbara E. Sorenson Mr. Dean and Dawn Stephan Carol Lipp Strauss The Suire Family Karly Brown Thiret Thrivent Financial Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family Fritzie Walker Shanna White Ms. Susan Wiens Mr. and Mrs. Paul Witt Patricia Wright Mr. Darren Xanthos Mr. and Mrs. David J. Zak $1,000+ Anonymous Jeannie Adams Ms. Janis Agopian Babilo Family Jim and Diane Bailey Gordon Baily Ms. Barbara D. Baranski In Memory of Frank Joseph Barbera

Candy Barela Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti Mrs. Jennifer Berg Berwood Management, Inc. John and Kathy Besnard Suzanne and Bert Bigelow Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Braun In Memory of John Brierly Paul and Rose Briscoe Mr. Hoang Bui Mr. and Mrs. John C. Callard Ms. Deidre Campbell Ms. Greta Campbell Linda and Henry Campbell Ms. Valerie B. Cantwell Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cashion Richard and Paula Castanon Mr. John Chadwick Mrs. Donna I. Clark Ms. Cristy Clemo Kevin and Lisa Corrigan Mr. Gordon Cowan Greg and Donna Crandall Mr. William G. Daly Mr. and Mrs. Larry K. Dart Dr. Robert F. and Julie A. Davey Roger and Marjorie Davisson Pieter and Keren de Zwart Claus Dieckell Richard and Lisa Doebler Joan M. Donahue John and Denise Duncan Susan and Robert Ehrlich Karen Ellis and Sandra Hartness Mrs. Ellen L. Enochs Gareth Thomas Evans, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Fang Ms. Epifania Fernandez Mr. Todd Fjield Drs. Lisa Flanagan and Edwin Monuki Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Fluor III Dr. and Mrs. Francis Foo James and Martha Freeman Emory and Kathleen Frink Dr. Robert Furman Ms. Yolanda Galloway Lionel and Stephanie Gayron Mary and Dennis Ghan Mr. James C. Gianulias Susan Glass Lawrence and Sharlene Goodman Dina L. Gray Lola and Walter Green Gary and Linda Greene The Hachiya Family In Memory of Connie Sakamoto and Mattie Fenner Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hartshorn and Family Mr. Frank T. Henry Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hinkle Hoelscher-Bell-Elliott Foundation Peter Holliday Mr.* and Mrs. R. S. Hoyt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Hudson Hing and Doris Hung Isidore C. Myers, Joseph A. Erickson Properties, Inc. Lynn L. Kambe Randy and Linda Kearns Charline Kenney Marianne and Arthur Kidman Ms. Claire Kim Mrs. Debra Kornswiet-Shandling and Dr. Adrian Shandling Tamara and Jon Krause Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krause Mr. William J. Kritzmire Ira and Riki Kucheck Mr. Robert Kulpa and Ms. Linda S. Pabian

Dr. and Mrs. KiHong Kwon Betty Jane Lang Leisure Capital Management Inc. Dr. Carolyn C. Light Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Logan, Jr. Richard and Jacqueline Lombardi Mrs. Yukiko Loritz Dr. and Mrs. Paul and Jana Lu Ms. Jean H. Macino Kay and John Maglica Mr. Charles Maloney Heather Marcroft Dave and Diana Margileth Joe and Linda Martin P. Dennis Mattson and Melinda K. Harris Ms. Candi McDaniel Mr. Thomas E. McKnight Pamela Michael Sylvia D. Michler Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Molina Dr. Edwin S. Monuki Priscella J. Moore Mr. Berto Muniz RN Tom and Marian Nau Mr. and Mrs. Merlin J. Norton Carlo and Laura Odicino Dr. Kevin O’Grady and Mrs. Nella Webster Mr. Patrick O’Neal William and Linda Owen Mr. Edgar Pangilinan Pamela Paul Tracy Pearson Ms. Pamela S. Pedego Sandra and Dan Perlmutter Kathleen and Mark Peterson Johni Pittenger Mr. Keith I. Polakoff Harry and Diane Rinker Joy Ritchie Laurie and Richard M.* Rodnick Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Roedersheimer Hugh and Catherine Rose Dolores Schiffert Bud and Sandy Scott Richard William Silver Ms. Virginia D. Silverman Stephen E. Smith and Kathy Coyle Smith Ms. Marian Stark N. Vicky Staub Ronald and June Stein Dr. Melvyn and Patricia Sterling Rob and Joan Stratton Mandi Strelow Burch Dr. Robert M. Stroup M.D. Susan and Richard Stuelke David and Jill Susson Marilyn and Thomas C. Sutton Mr.* and Mrs. Arthur E. Svendsen Gary Tallman Toni Tartamella Kristin Taylor Thrivent Charitable Mr. Christopher Trela U. M. Hoshaw Trust In Memory of Barbara Van Alstine Ann Van Ausdeln Peter Vann Sandy Vaughan The Alpert-Waldman Family In Memory of Robert D. Walters Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Watson Mr. and Mrs. Gary Weisenberg Howard and Sumi Yata David Zimmerman *deceased

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ENDOWMENT

Segerstrom Center for the Arts thanks the following donors who have generously provided support to the Center’s Endowment Funds. Gifts to the Endowment provide financial support for our artistic and education programs every year. Funds exist in perpetuity as investments whose earnings make the arts accessible for future generations.

Patron of Esteem ($1,000,000 +) Audrey Steele Burnand* Estate of Edra E. Brophy/ William J. Gillespie Foundation Nora* and Charles* Hester and the Hester Family Foundation W. M. Keck Foundation Barbara Steele Williams Fund Mr.* and Mrs. Richard Steele Harry and Grace Steele Foundation Swenson Family Foundation The James Irvine Foundation The Segerstrom Foundation Patron of Eminence ($500,000 +) Fluor Corporation The Fluor Foundation Carol Frobish* Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times Rockwell Mrs. Constance T. Whitney* Patron of Distinction ($250,000 +) Bank of America Nancy Marie Biram* Patricia Fredricks-Dolson Edison International The First American Corporation Patron of Honor ($100,000 +) Daniel C.* and Janet S. Bonbright and Sons Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Engman Helen B. Fait Elizabeth E. Fleming* The Orange County Register William Randolph Hearst Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz Richard C.* and Virginia A.* Hunsaker Peter G.* and Mary M. Muth and Family Nestle USA, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith Ronald E. Soderling Virginia Valentine Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch Patron of Acclaim ($50,000 +) The Birtcher Family Founders Plus Evelyn and Richard Francuz Sonia and Earle Ike Mark Chapin Johnson and Barbara Hiller Johnson Isidore C. and Penny W.* Myers Palley-Needelman Asset Management Ralphs/Food 4 Less Mr. Stewart R. Smith Ms. Anita Sparrow* Wells Fargo In memory of Barbara Steele Williams Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin

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Donors The Clubhouse Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer Douglas F. Schneider and Family Rudolph C. Schweitzer* Robert J. Searles In memory of Hartley M. Sears Renée* and Henry T.* Segerstrom Al and Susan Shankle Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family Linda and Harvey A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling Steven-Thomas Antiques The Stone Family Dr. Max Swancutt, Jr. Mr. Stewart C. Woodard Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten Mr. Edward H. Wale Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton Mr.* and Mrs.* Robert E. Yellin

LEGACY SOCIETY

Segerstrom Center for the Arts thanks the following donors who have included the Center in their estate plans. These gifts help ensure that we allow access to the arts for the entire community.

Patron of Esteem ($1,000,000 +) Anonymous* Richard C.* and Virginia A.* Hunsaker Jean Ruth Miller* Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer Cecil C.* and Kathryn* H. Wright Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin Deferred Estate Gifts Anonymous Michael and Sara Abraham Edna and Julio Aljure Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Allen Myrtle A. Anderson Bart and Elizabeth Asner Antoinette W. Ayres* Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett John and Betty Barr Mrs. Donald V. Bassler The William A. Baxter Family Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Beaudette Gregory and Jennifer Beck Dorothy and Donald Bendetti Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Berns George and Jacqueline Birdsong Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Birtcher Mr. Baron Birtcher The Birtcher Family Mr. Ronald E. Birtcher Mrs. Bernice Bishop* Roberta Bouillon Trust Barbara and Alex Bowie Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie Susan Boyd Victor H. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr. Gordon D. Brown and Jean D. Brown* Ms. Kathy Buda Douglas T. Burch, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Irving* X. Burg Audrey Steele Burnand*

Dr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Burnett Barbara Baker Burnham* Drs. Fran* and Charlie Cacha Charles B. Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan Jean, Bob, Kristen and Kelly Campbell Chris and Lee Ann Canaday Dr. and Mrs. James H. Casey Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino Eileen Cirillo Mr. Barry H. Josselson, Esquire Mr. Duncan M. Coffey Elizabeth and David Cole David and Victoria Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David John and Jennifer Condas Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr. Ford A. Dickerhoff* and Wilma Dickerhoff* Mr. Kermit Dorius* Harry J. and Edith M. Doyle Estate of Bertha Duhan* Mary Jane McArthur Edalatpour and Nasrola Edalatpour Ms. Julie Brinkerhof Edwards Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II Shari and Harry Esayian Mr. Harold W. Faber Mr. Curtis S. Farrell Jack and Janie Flammer Dr. Dennis R. Fratt Mr.* and Mrs.* T. Fukunaga/ Kay K. Fukunaga John and Carolyn Garrett Estate of Edra E. Brophy*/ William J. Gillespie Foundation GoodSmith & Co., Inc. Harriett F. Grant* Dr. and Mrs. G. Stanley Hall Mr. and Mrs. Rondell Hanson Nat S. and April D. Harty Aart and Robert Hennekes Lawrence and Dee Higby Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Higgins Lewis and Audrey Himmelrich Mr. Harold Hofer David L. Horowitz Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoshaw Mark and Kristine Howlett S.L. and Betty Huang/ Huang Family Foundation Lorne and Traute Huycke Sonia and Earle Ike* Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Jaeger Mr. Guy K. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Bertram W. Justus Mrs. Suzanne Kline Curtis A. and Varla E. N. Knauss Dr. Elliott Kornhauser Mr. Gary A. Kreitz and Ms. Joyce Singman Mrs. Susan Lambrose Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof Richard and Gerrie Leeds Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas Leon and Molly Lyon* Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Robert* D. MacDonald

James, Charlene and Katherine MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin Douglas and Sandra MacLennan Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory Mrs. Hedda Marosi Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm The McLarand Family Trust Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik Mr. Robin B. Miner Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. George H. Mohr* The Morrison & Foerste Foundation Myron Mull* Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo Mr. and Mrs. James P. Murphy Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers Michael D. and Lorraine C. Nadler Mr. and Mrs. Carl Neisser Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson Newmeyer & Dillion Joseph and Mary Norton Family Jerry Nourse Ms. Cheryl Oakes O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc./ Carolyn O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Palafoutas Mrs. Charlotte R. Paluzzi Mr. and Mrs. Tim Paone Nicholas S. Patin Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls Lenore and Carl Pearlston Mr. Charles Peyton, II Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux Betty Mower Potalivo Elaine M. Redfield* Mr. Burton Reis Howard G.* and Margaret C.* Richardson Stanley R. Robb Family David and Linda Roberson Family Ted and Jean Robinson and Family Carlene Rona* Mrs. Annette Rosenthal* Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer Bob and Bev Sandelman Estate of Ernest J. Schag, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Schaller Mrs. Betty Scheidt Douglas F. Schneider and Family Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schoellerman O. Carl Schulz Robert J. Searles Al and Susan Shankle Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family Dr. James B. and Muriel A. Sheets and Dr. Cherilyn G. Sheets Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family Jackie Singer and John Pope Estate of Norman and Rose Smedegaard* Mr.* and Mrs. Allen O. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sparks Georgia Hull Spooner* David and Diane Steffy Mr. and Mrs. David H. Steinmetz Richard R. and Phoebe Stenton Steven-Thomas Antiques Mr. and Mrs. Glen E.* Stillwell

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The Stone Family Dr. Arthur Strick Dr. Max Swancutt, Jr. A. Z. Taft, II* Don L. Thompson Libby and Herbert* Tobin Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina Virginia Valentine Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch Mr. Edward H. Wale Ms. Jill Watkins Margaret and Maurie Watman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weston Estate of Hilda Everett Whiteley* Kent J. and Carol L. Wilken Family Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Williams Fritzie Williams, in memory of Frank Williams Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton Harriett F. Witmer Family Trust* Mr. Stewart C. Woodard Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orrin Wright Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yellin Jane D. Zimmerman *deceased

RISING LEADERS COUNCIL Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds the following emerging philanthropic leaders who celebrate and support Segerstrom Center through community outreach and annual contributions.

Katheryn Baker, Chair Jesse D. Bagley Kerrie Buncher Lupe Erwin Steve Joseph Jill Meznarich Maurice Murray Patrick Strader Nancy Tseng Jaynine Warner Bill Meehan, Founding Chairman

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Center Staff EXECUTIVE OFFICE Casey Reitz, President Judy Morr, Executive Vice President, Producing Director• Brian Finck, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer• Aaron Egigian, Senior Director, Music Programming• ADMINISTRATION Angelica Camarillo, Executive Assistant to the President & Board Liaison Kelly Ornelas, Executive Assistant & Programming Coordinator• Stacey Myers, Attorney/Contracts Manager• FINANCE Seila Heng, Controller MeiMei Chiang, Senior Accountant Andrew Hudson, Assistant Controller Monica Drescher, Accounting Generalist• HUMAN RESOURCES Kerk Brown, Vice President, Human Resources Karen Duncan, Human Resources Generalist MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Marketing & Communications Carla Cruz, Senior Director, Communications Roxanne Rothafel, Senior Director, Program Marketing Jonathan Vietze, Senior Director, Series Marketing• Christopher Alvarez, Director, Creative Services• Karen Drum, Director, Publications• Anne McNiff-Gaeta, Director, Group Services• Joesan Diche, eCommerce Marketing Manager• Richard Ong, Manager, Calling Center• Ken Catino, Senior Graphic Designer Jennifer Siglin, Graphic Designer Carly Murphy, Public Relations Associate Hilary Leierer, Marketing Analyst• Diana Torres, Group Services• Emily Doughty, Social Media Coordinator Lauren Knight, Content Creator Coordinator William Olivieri, Marketing Coordinator INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Dean Yarborough, Director, Information Technology David Frederick, Associate Director, Information Technology Jana Young, Applications Manager• Samwel Basweti, Network Support Specialist Mario Hortizuela, IT Support Specialist Erik Lomack, IT Support Generalist GUEST SERVICES Joe Queen, Assistant Manager, Guest Services• Alberto Ponce, Office Services Coordinator•

TICKETING Ruth Mason, Director, Ticket Services Karen Diche, Manager, Season Tickets• Nicki Wilmot, Manager, Box Office Karla Torres, Assistant Manager, Box Office Michelle De Castro, Supervisor, Subscriptions Evan Silveria, Supervisor, Box Office Bernadette Ramos, Donor Relations Lead Marcie Bernal, Receptionist Ashley Gaddis, Ticketing Functional Support• Richard Todd, Ticketing Functional Support• AUDIENCE SERVICES Christine Upham, Director, Audience Services• Norm Major III, Sr. Manager, Audience Services• Regine Rutherfurd, Audience Services Clerical Assistant DEVELOPMENT Tyler Ennis, Vice President, Development Malika Middlebrooks, Associate Vice President, Development• Courtney Dudman-Donley, Director, Special Events Elizabeth Kurila, Principal Gift Officer Katie McKay, Director, Development Operations & Prospect Research Kay Linan, Senior Manager, Individual Giving Jamie Roff, Senior Manager, Development Systems• Brian Tom, Senior Manager, Corporate & Foundation Relations Ginger Cheverria, Manager, Donor Relations Michelle Conry, Manager, Support Groups Kelly Hamilton, Manager, Annual Giving Abby Hatt, Manager, Special Events Katie Lockie, Assistant Manager, Stewardship and Board Relations Bernadette Ramos, Donor Relations Lead April Kunowski, Coordinator, Individual Giving Danielle McMahan, Coordinator, Special Events Shimin Zheng, Coordinator, Support Groups EDUCATION Talena Mara, Vice President, Education• Bethany Umbach, Senior Manager, Education Programs Sarah Sierszyn, Manager, Education Operations Alexis Johnson, Manager, Education Partnerships Michael Mariano, Assistant Manager, Education Partnerships Katie Nguyen, Coordinator, Education Partnerships Annie Pfost, Coordinator, Education Programs

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Natalie Graham, Vice President, Community Engagement Marytza Rubio, Director, Community Engagement Emily Neely, Manager, Community Engagement Chloe Saalsaa, Manager, Studio D THEATER OPERATIONS David Leavenworth, Vice President, Theater Operations & Facilities Chad Jeffrey, Director, Theater Operations Brian Keating, Director, Facilities and Engineering Jeremy Knutsen, Operations Manager, Theater Operations• Max Stossier, Rental Manager Lilia Queen, Covid Compliance Manager Aidan Daguro, Production Coordinator, Theater Operations Jordan Smyth, Admin Coordinator, Theater Operations Kelly Ellerbrook, Operations Supervisor SEGERSTROM HALL John Oliphant, Technical Director/ Production Carpenter• Sara Broadhead, Head Electrician Mike Brown, Head Audio Engineer• Alexis Vazquez Riggs, Head Wardrobe Chris Alva, Assistant• Ron Cargile, Assistant Michael Clifford, Assistant Scott Dale, Assistant• Christopher Haugh, Assistant Phil Harris, Assistant Tim Ligatti, Assistant RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM CONCERT HALL Tom Lane, Technical Director/Production Carpenter• Gregg Snider, House Electrician• John Downey, Head Audio Engineer• Eileen Jeanette, Tönmeister SAMUELI THEATER Mark Cook, Electrician• ENGINEERING Marc Lewis, Senior Engineer• Bryan Vojtko, Senior Engineer• Richard Whitfield, Senior Engineer• Dan Ear, Engineer SECURITY Tyler Cole, Security Supervisor Jaime Paz, Security Supervisor Gary Spangler, Security Supervisor• Lee Yepez, Security Supervisor AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE WILLIAM J. GILLESPIE SCHOOL Alaine Haubert, Principal Sarah Jones, Children’s Division Principal Teacher & Coordinator Zach Edwards, School Administrator

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