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Dear Friends,
Welcome to Cosmic Worlds, the grand finale of our 2024-25 season!
As we reflect on an extraordinary year of music—seven unforgettable concerts at the Venice Performing Arts Center—we’re filled with immense gratitude. Under the inspired direction of Music Director Troy Quinn, our 75 exceptional musicians from Florida and beyond have delivered a season that truly shines among the best orchestras in the nation.
This year, we’ve been privileged to showcase a stunning array of guest artists. We’re especially excited to welcome renowned saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky and The Key Chorale Women’s Chorus who will lead us on an unforgettable journey through this cosmic finale to a stellar season.
And the music doesn’t stop here! Join us on May 4 at 3:30 p.m. at Wellen Park for a free outdoor concert featuring the Venetian Serenaders, part of our Capstan Chamber Series. Then, mark your calendars for May 24 at CoolToday Park, where we’ll present our beloved Patriotic Pops and fireworks. This year’s theme, The Greatest Generation, pays tribute to the heroes of World War II. Tickets are available now on Ticketmaster.
Looking ahead, we’re thrilled to share a first glimpse of our 2025-26 season! If you’ve received your season brochure, don’t forget to submit your order form by June 1 to guarantee your seats before the Box Office begins assigning them. If you haven’t received one, you can view and download the digital brochure and order form at thevenicesymphony.org.
We also invite young musicians to be part of our Venice Summer Music Academy, running June 2–6 and June 9–13 at Garden Elementary and Venice High School. Open to students in grades K-11, the program offers hands-on musical learning, lessons, and fun. Details are available at thevenicesymphony.org.
Thank you for being an essential part of The Venice Symphony family. Your support is the reason we can continue to inspire, educate, and entertain through music.
With heartfelt thanks,
Christine Kasten, President/CEO The Venice Symphony
TROY QUINN, MUSIC DIRECTOR TROY QUINN, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Emmy-nominated conductor Troy Quinn has quickly established himself as one of his generation’s most versatile young artists. Lauded for his energetic and riveting, yet sensitive conducting, Quinn is in his seventh season as Music Director of the Venice Symphony in Florida. He is also in his eighth season as Music Director of the Owensboro Symphony in Kentucky and serves concurrently as the Pops Conductor of both the Santa Rosa Symphony in California and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Quinn’s engagements have included performances with many prestigious orchestras in the United States, including the Boston Pops, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Equally at home in the pops and commercial world, Quinn has performed and recorded with some of the most popular artists of our time, including The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Barry Manilow, Lee Greenwood, Josh Groban, Jennifer Hudson, Michael Feinstein, Tower of Power, The Indigo Girls, and Nas. As an accomplished vocalist, Quinn has also collaborated with such prominent maestros as Helmuth Rilling, Carl St. Clair, and Dan Saunders of the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to his concert work, Quinn has worked extensively in the television and recording industry, earning an Emmy nomination for the PBS special A Night at the Oscars with the Owensboro Symphony. He has made appearances on such hit television shows as Fox’s GLEE, NBC’s The Voice, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno while recording on films like The Call of the Wild and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He has also appeared at many of the world’s major music centers and at such famed venues as the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Tanglewood, where Quinn conducted the BUTI orchestra.
A native of Connecticut, Quinn pursued a bachelor of arts degree from Providence College where he was the recipient of the Leo S. Cannon award for superior achievement in the music field. He went on to earn his master’s degree with honors from the Manhattan School of Music, studying conducting with David Gilbert and voice with highly acclaimed Metropolitan Opera singer Mark Oswald. He completed his doctorate in conducting at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Larry Livingston and Jo-Michael Scheibe and was named the outstanding doctoral graduate of his class. Quinn has participated in numerous masterclasses as a conducting fellow, attending conducting institutes at the Royal Academy of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Bard Conservatory of Music. He has been mentored by such renowned conductors as Benjamin Zander, Neil Varon, and Leon Botstein. Quinn serves on the conducting faculty at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and has previously served as a faculty member at Providence College.
CONCERT PROGRAM
April 25th, 2025 I 7:30pm April 26th, 2025 I 3:30 + 7:30pm
Troy Quinn, Music Director
John Williams Flying Theme from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Franz Waxman
A Place in the Sun Suite Kenneth Radnofsky, Alto Saxophone
INTERMISSION
Gustav Holst The Planets The Key Chorale Women’s Chorus
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M u SIC DI re CT or Troy Quinn David & Deborah West Chair
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Edward and Patricia Crary Chair
Sergio Carleo
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Francisco Diaz
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GUEST ARTIST
Kenneth radnofsky has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus and New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, Jerusalem Symphony with Gisele Ben-Dor and Boston Pops with John Williams. Radnofsky premiered Gunther Schuller’s Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony (composer conducting), and David Amram’s Concerto with the Portland Symphony, under Bruce Hangen. The 100 plus solo works he has commissioned also include those by Netzer, Trester, Colgrass, Harbison, Martino, Gandolfi, Olivero, Horvit, Fatas, Yannatos, Perker, Jakoulov, Schwartz, Yang and Bell, to name just a few. He teaches world-wide and helped establish saxophone programs in Taiwan with Shyen Lee, and in Venezuela with Claudio Dioguardi. His most recent 2023 tour ‘Looking for Higher Ground, Music of Emigres and Refugees,’ was heard and seen across the US and Canada.
He is Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at New England Conservatory, President of the Boston Woodwind Society, Founder of World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, a founding board member of Gunther Schuller Society, co-founder of the Amram Ensemble, is a Selmer Artist, and also teaches at Boston University. He studied with Joseph Allard, Jeffrey Lerner and Duncan Hale.
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CONCERT NOTES
John Williams
The “Flying Theme” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of John Williams’ most iconic and emotionally resonant pieces, and it exemplifies his masterful use of leitmotif, orchestration, and emotional storytelling through music.
The piece is written in a lush, late-Romantic orchestral style with clear influences from composers like Korngold, Tchaikovsky, and Holst. It’s part of a tradition of symphonic film scoring that Williams revived in the 1970s and ‘80s, bringing a classical sensibility to modern cinema.
The “Flying Theme” accompanies the magical moment when Elliott and E.T. take flight on a bicycle across the moonlit sky. It symbolizes wonder, freedom, and the deep emotional bond between a child and a mysterious, kind alien. The theme reflects the overarching narrative of E.T.—innocence, discovery, and connection.
CONCERT NOTES
Franz Waxman
A Place in the Sun is a romantic drama based on Theodore Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy. It’s a story of ambition, love, and tragedy, dealing with themes of class division, desire, and guilt.
Waxman’s score had to capture the emotional highs of romance and the darkness of moral conflict. His suite distills many of those ideas into a concentrated concert form. You can hear echoes of late Romantic composers (Mahler, Strauss) in the lush orchestration, and hints of 20th-century modernism in the tension and dissonance. A Place in the Sun won Waxman the 1952 academy award for best Original Score.
Waxman is often compared to contemporaries like Max Steiner, Miklós Rózsa, and Dimitri Tiomkin, but his sound is more psychologically intimate and fluid.
CONCERT NOTES
Gustav Holst
Composed between 1914 and 1917, during the First World War, Holst’s The Planets is a seven-movement orchestral suite, each one depicting the astrological mood and character of a planet as understood through Theosophy and astrological mysticism, rather than mythology or science.
Holst was influenced by astrology, not astronomy—this was meant as a psychological/spiritual portrait of human traits projected onto the planets.
The seven movements of the piece are broken down by each planet as shown above: Mars, the bringer of War, Venus, the bringer of peace, Mercury, the Winged Messenger, jupiter, the bringer of jollity, Saturn, the bringer of old age, uranus, the Magician, and neptune, the Mystic.
CONCERT NOTES
Imogen Holst , the composer’s daughter, wrote of the 1918 premiere: “Even those listeners who had studied the score for months were taken aback by the unexpected clamour of Mars. During Jupiter the charwomen working in the corridors put down their scrubbing-brushes and began to dance. In Saturn the isolated listeners in the dark, halfempty hall felt themselves growing older at every bar. But it was the end of Neptune that was unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women’s voices growing fainter and fainter in the distance, until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence.”
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Clyde Johnson
Pamela Johnson
Russell & Pat Johnson
Carol Karakashian
Herbert & Maryann Kaufman
Frederick & Loraine Keller
Susan Kiley
Patricia Knasiak
Pieter & Susan Kohnstam
Deborah Kostroun
Gabriele Kramer & Horst Malchow
Thomas Kueny &
Sally Johnson
Cora Kukula
Bob Kunath
Frank & Rosalie Kunsman
Diana Labrador
Barbara Larson
Kathy Lehner
George & Jacqueline Lincoln
Edward & Marlene Lipman
Jeanette Little
Susan Phipps Littlehales
Judy Livingston
Judith Lowes &
Douglas Lynn
Anthony Madera
Patricia Madyda
Aldo & Catherine Magnanini
Marcia Major
James & Jo Manwaring
Jane Marcin
Barbara & Sil Martinage
Kathy & Michael Mason
Linda Masterson
Kathy McCarthy
Jerry & Sue McCormick
Evan & Dianne Meltzer
Ronald & Margaret Meyers
Dawn & Michael Miller
Jean Miller
Frances Mogelnicki
Robert & Marilyn Moist
Catherine & James Monkowsi
John & Linda Moore
Joan Moran
Keith & Susan Munroe
David & Mary Ann Nelson
Martha Ness
Charles & Betty Newsom
Barbara & Edward O’Brian
Jack & Sue Onofrio
Mary Jo & Herb Ormsbee
Ralph & Loretta Orrico
Joseph & Patricia Paganini
Larry Patton
Donna Perkins
James & Jane Phillips
Robert & Ann Porawski
Mark & Jackie Puccinelli
Barbara Quinn
Donald & Cynthia Richardson
COMMUNITY OF CONTRIBUTORS
Anita & August Riska
Steve & Trish Robbins
Rev. Judith Roberts
Brooks & Michelle Rogers
Robert & Antoinette Ross
Bill & Corrine Roth
Joseph Rue
Sharon Rugh
Douglas Ryan
Whitney Sale
Marion Sautner & Virgilio Beruffi
Sarah Scaramella
Jim & Lynne Schaeffer
Peter & Beth Ann Schnorf
Loretta Schwaner
Gene & Winnie Scuteri
Dave & Sally Sentner
Jane Serio
Steve & Jan Simon
Nathan & Laurie Skjerseth
Mary Jane Smith
Barry & Jean Smithies
Frank & Kateri Snow
Chuck & Maureen Snyder
Samuel & Vicki Solomon
Lauree Spangler
Arthur & Mary Spears
Brad Speckerman & Maria Pappas
Robert & Carol Speir
Julie A. Sperring
Helen Spindler
Jean Spitzer
Dan & Nancy Spohn
Robert & Judith Steiner
Mona Strahlman
Dowd & Dr. Jill Sullivan
Carol Swan
Barbara Talmage
Richard Tisch
Don & Leslie Titzel
Inia Tunstall
Susan Van Wieren
Linda Varone
Monica Walker
Melissa Wall
Peter & Mary Wallin
Winthrop & Vanessa Wassenar
Susan Weiner
Margaret Weiss
Frances White
David & Loretta Whitney
Anita Wilson
Katherine Wolyniak
Judith Wood
Linda & David Workman
Kathleen & William Wright
John & Toni Yahres
William Yopp
Nicholas & Janet Zennario
In Me M or I a M
Melody Wilson in memory of Andrew D. Bogen
T r I bu T e S
Deirdre & Russ Christman to honor Dana & Elliott Corn on the occasion of their 45th anniversary
If you believe there is an error or omission in this list, please call Holly Anderson at 941-207-8822.
SUPPORT THE SYMPHONY
Your personal investment is the reason The Venice Symphony delivers exceptional concerts and affordable music education. Together, musical excellence is sustained and lives transformed.
Annual Fund – The Venice Symphony’s primary source of operating revenue and outreach. Contributions may be given monthly, quarterly or annually.
Donor advised Funds and Ira Distributions – A contribution from an IRA or DAF is an excellent way to achieve your charitable giving objectives. *
employee Match – Many corporations will match their current employee’s or retiree’s donation. This can potentially double or triple the amount you give.
Living Trusts and bequests – Pledge a will bequest or name The Venice Symphony as a beneficiary of a retirement or life insurance plan. *
neW! Monthly Giving option – An easy and affordable way to offer support! Simply select monthly recurring payments when giving online or when visiting or calling our administrative offices.
play it Forward - Donate an instrument and help make a difference for a young musician in our community.
Small business and Corporate engagement – Strengthen your community by offering support through concert sponsorships, participating in special events, advertising or other unique opportunities. Let’s curate a doable option for your business!
Stock and Securities – Gifts of appreciated stocks are welcomed and may be advantageous to the donor from a tax point of view. *
For more information on any of these opportunities, speak with a Development Team member by calling 941-207-8822 or visit our Administrative Offices.
*Because each situation is different, please consult your tax advisor about tax benefits.
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ADMINISTRATION & STAFF
2024-2025
The Venice Symphony board of Trustees
officers
Bob Hite, Chair
Brad Speckerman, Vice Chair
Penny Corell, Secretary
Tom Fitch, Treasurer
Members
Susan DiGiacomo
Jennifer Douglas
Roger Effron
Marc Gerken
Steven Ledbetter
Denise Mattmuller
Paul McCullough
Cole McHargue
Peter Oliger
Casey Riley
Ken Sadler
Honorary Member
Nick Pachota
our MISSIon
The Venice Symphony exists to inspire and transform lives through exceptional musical experiences.
our VISIon
Uniting Through Music
executive office
Christine Kasten, President/CEO
Candace Kurtz, Manager of Office Operations
artistic operations
Dana Kimble, Vice President of Artistic Operations
Tim Ferguson, Production Manager and Senior Education Consultant
Al Lyman, Principal Librarian
Terry Williams, Assistant Librarian
Patricia Dunlap, Musician Host Program Coordinator
Music education, Community engagement
John Castleman, Director of Education and Outreach
Nicole Rawley, Concert Strings Conductor
Christopher Riley, Symphonic Strings Conductor
David Wing, Symphonic Winds Conductor
Development
Holly Anderson, Vice President of Philanthropy
Finance
Erica Downs, Finance Manager
Marketing
Dania Hammad, Director of Marketing and Communications
Alison Posner-Solares, Patron Services and Ticketing Manager
Stacy Rector, Graphic Designer
Judith Engle-Purple, Graphic Designer
