South American Rhythms - Southern Miss Symphony Opening Night 2023

V yagE 104th SEASON

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Dr. Michael Miles, Music Director

South American Rhythms Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 7:30 p.m.

Thomas V. Fraschillo Stage at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center

And Away We Go!!

Welcome to the 104th season of The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra! We are so pleased that you could join us on our Voyage! We have an incredibly exciting season ahead of us as we take our students and patrons on a journey around the world, experiencing the music of an exciting array of cultures along the way.

South America is the first stop on our tour. We travel south to bring you the rhythmic pulsations of Brazil and Argentina, with a stop in Puerto Rico on the way. In all of the selections this evening, you will hear folk elements of the regions represented in the rhythms, melodies and harmonies of the music.

Sometimes these elements are directly quoted, and other times the composers will reference folk elements to give impressions of life in their native lands.

In all cases, we completely expect to see you moving in your chair tonight!

We are so pleased tonight to share a very international lineup of guest artists and composers with you. Lisandro Parada, who composed Concerto for Three Percussion and Orchestra, joins us not only as a guest clinician, but also as a guest artist performing his own music. He will be joined by Jeronimo Molina and Angel Frette, two of his good friends from Patagonia. Tonight’s performance will be the North American premiere of this work. We also are thrilled tonight to premier two original works by our good friend and professor of percussion, Dr. John Wooton. John is a fixture in our community and around the world as a percussionist and purveyor of all things steel pan. His international travels and love for Latin American music inspired him to write Amigos de Borinquen and Bembe My Way. These wonderful compositions have been arranged for us by USM alumnus, Bill Murphy. Dr. Wooton will perform on steel pan on both of his compositions alongside his friends from Patagonia.

And finally, we are honored tonight to welcome Dr. Sarah Higino as our guest conductor. Dr. Higino will lead the Orchestra and Hattiesburg Choral Union in the Villa-Lobos Choros No. 10. Sarah is the conductor of the orchestra and mixed choir, teacher, pianist and pedagogical coordinator for the Volta Redonda Cidade da Musica, a music program serving 4,600 students K-12 in Brazil. We have had the honor of having Dr. Higino on campus for a week sharing her talent experiences and pedagogical philosophies with our orchestra, choral, and music education students. We look forward to many more partnerships and exchanges with Dr. Higino’s program in the future.

I can’t wait to perform this program! The rehearsals have been so much fun and so educational for our students. They have been pressed beyond their norms of Western music for this program, and they’ve responded incredibly well. I know you will enjoy it, and it’s a great start to our Voyage this year. Next stops…Venice and Vienna!

Program THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MUSIC present

South American Rhythms

The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Dr. Michael Miles, music director Dr. Sarah Higino, guest conductor

John Wooton, Lisandro Parada, Jeronimo Molina, Angel Frette, percussion and the Hattiesburg Choral Union

T uesday, October 3, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

The Thomas V. Fraschillo Stage at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center Batuque

from Reisado do Pastoreio

Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez (1897-1948)

Concerto for 3 Percussion and Orchestra Lisandro Parada

(b. 1984) Lisandro Parada, Jeronimo Molina, Angel Frette, percussion

Intermission Amigos de Borinquen John Wooton

(b. 1962)

arr. Bill Murphy Bembe My Way

John Wooton, Jeronimo Molina, Angel Frette, percussion Choros No. 10

Sarah Higino, conductor This program presented in part by a generous grant from Partners for the Arts

John Wooton arr. Bill Murphy

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Program Notes Batuque from Reisado do pastoreio

Although he first studied medicine, Brazilian composer Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (1897-1948) came up through the Rio de Janeiro musical establishment with largely conventional training, writing music after European models. He succeeded one of his own teachers as professor of harmony at the National Institute of Music in 1925, and in 1936, he founded the Brazilian Conservatory of Music, which he directed until his death.

In 1924, Fernández won a composition contest with his Trio brasileiro, a piano trio imbued with Brazilian popular elements. His subsequent works are decisively Brazilian in character, often quoting folksongs. Reisado do pastoreio (1930) is a sort of orchestral Christmas triptych based on Afro-Brazilian traditions, though without actual folk melodies. A festively pulsating Batuque, a type of percussiondriven secular dance, is the third movement of that suite.

Concerto for Three Percussionists and Orchestra

Lisandro Parada is a musician, composer, arranger and performer born in Argentina in 1984. The Concerto for Three Percussionists and Orchestra was written in 2022 for the 20th anniversary of the Patagonia International Percussion Festival, and premiered together with the Patagonia Cultural Foundation Symphony Orchestra that same year within the framework of the festival.

The concerto has three distinctive movements. The first movement is “Round 7”, in memory of my father. The second is “Río Minero,” which describes a river located in Patagonia, Argentina in Villa Traful in the Andes Mountains.

The 3rd movement, “1099,” is inspired by the neighborhood where I grew up in Neuquen. In this music, different conversations take place between the three soloists and the instruments of the symphony orchestra, converging during their different movements, intertwining different elements of modern music with some folkloric elements from Argentina.

Notes by the composer

Amigos de Borinquen

Borinquen is the indigenous name for Puerto Rico, and after making many trips to Puerto Rico, I accumulated many dear friends, some of which I consider family. Most of my trips to Puerto Rico were by invitation of José Alicea to perform and teach at the International Percussion Festival that he hosts once a year at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico. After falling in love with the island, the people and the food, they gave me the title of “Honorary Boriqua.” A Boriqua is an indigenous person from Borinquen. Years later, I met my wife, who is a real Boriqua, and she loved my tune, Amigos de Borinquen. So, it is only appropriate for me to dedicate this orchestral version to her.

Notes by the composer

Bembe My Way

Bembé comes from the Yoruba people of West Africa. Depending on the context, the term “bembé” can refer to one of many things: a type of drum, an ethnic subgroup, a religious ceremony, a style of dance, a genre of music, a wooden platform...you get the idea. The genre, Bembé, made its way through South America and the Caribbean. We are most familiar with the version that came through Cuba and Puerto Rico. Today Bembé is common in Latin jazz although some people call this style “Afro-Cuban 6/8.” My version of Bembé is unique and far removed from the original genre; therefore, I thought a proper name would be, “Bembé My Way.” Notes by the composer

Choros No. 10

Nationalistic composers have always walked a thin line between the preservation of cultural identity on the one hand and Western integrity, complexity, and idiom on the other. The pitfalls of the former result in music that sounds awkward and unnatural in its foreign medium, while the cost of the latter may be the selling out of nationalistic intentions. Villa-Lobos sidestepped the dilemma altogether, fashioning a music that relied on native elements to capture the greater essence rather than the actual reality of Brazilian folklore.

The title Chôros refers to Brazil’s urban street musicians. The work’s subtitle, “Rasga o coração” (“Rend the Heart”), is derived from the last line of the poem by Catulo da Paixão Cearense that serves as the text. The words that are sung at the chant-like entry of the chorus, Ja-ka-tá ka-ma-ra-já, do not appear in Cearense’s poem at all, but were chosen by the composer for their purely sonorous effect.

The lyrical melody that soon emerges is by Villa-Lobos’ older contemporary, the Brazilian composer Anacleto Augusto de Medeiros (1866-1907).

Villa-Lobos draws upon both the music of Brazil’s large international cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and that of the far-removed world of the Brazilian interior. These culturally disparate elements (urban dance rhythms and Villa-Lobos’ fanciful version of indigenous chant) are synthesized on a massive symphonic scale, magnified far beyond the local scale of their respective social contexts. Whereas European nationalism necessarily gravitated away from city life, where art music thrived, Latin America’s European-style cities afforded concert composers a vital wealth of musical resources that had long remained untapped.

The net result of the work is wholly unique, however. Most notable in its freshness is the hypnotically vigorous second half, in which a driving rhythmic foundation (the crisp and deliberate patterns of Brazilian dance) underlies the soaring lyricism of the chorus (as it impersonates the spirit of indigenous chant).

Through the clear delineation (or stratification) of melody and rhythm, the dichotomous worlds of song and dance, the rainforest and the city, primitive spirituality, and sophisticated decadence all mutually coexist in a meaningful way.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

Symphony Orchestra Violin 1 Marlene Gentile, concertmaster Alexander Ilchev Jessica Achon Juan Lincango Adele Paltin Icaro Santana Jonathan Chen Violin 2 Federico Franco, principal Lily Martinez Nohelia Zambrano Angelina Sidiropoulou Alejandro Lopez Victor Amaut Grace Pineda Lucas Gonzalez Dexter Rodkey Viola Ana Sofia Suarez, principal Renata Andrade Isabella Marques Christian Avila Nicole Herrera Ronnie Ortiz Cello Alejandro Restreppo, principal Mert Ozkan Brian Lorett Maricio Abaunza Cristian Sanchez Kassandra Henriquez Evelin Lopez Courtney Francois Bass Daniel Magalhaes, principal Pedro Arceo Jose Cuellar Matheus Ferreira de Souza Carlos Herrera Nick Shellenberg Manuel Jara Ramirez Charlie Levandoski

Flute Sarah Hinchey, principal Claudio Palazzi Angel Hamel Oboe Alexandra Gordon, principal Darbi George Josh Strobel English Horn Darbi George Clarinet Gerby Keiny Galvan, principal Caitlyn Austin Bass Clarinet Eli Anderson Bassoon Gabriel Flores Zachary Howell Contrabassoon Brandon Woodie Alto Saxophone Lyndon Bobo Horn Brian Alston, principal Chance Rootes Anna Zurawski Abby Loftin Connor Hammond

Trumpet Doug Hutchison, coprincipal Rob Smith, co-principal Zach Dake Kyle Matthees Trombone Caleb Owenby, principal Nicholas Dauerer Bass Trombone Jonathan Henneveld Tuba Dawson Foster Timpani Carmen Vessel Percussion Malachi Collins Ryan Dunklee Christopher Johnston Shawn Lawrence Bryce McDonald Angel Murillo Nathan Sanders Sam Shaner Logan Whitehead

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STRINGS Dr. Borislava Iltcheva, violin Dr. Hsiaopei Lee, viola Dr. Alexander Russakovsky, cello Dr. Marcos Machado, bass Dr. Nicholas Ciraldo, guitar WOODWINDS Dr. Danilo Mezzadri, flute Dr. Galit Kaunitz, oboe Dr. Jackie McIlwain, clarinet Dr. Kim Woolly, bassoon Dr. Dannel Espinoza, saxophone BRASS Dr. Rob Detjen, horn Dr. Tim Tesh, trumpet Dr. Ben McIlwain, trombone Dr. Richard Perry, tuba PERCUSSION John Wooton, percussion PIANO Michael Bunchman, piano Ellen Elder, piano Hongzuo Guo, staff pianist Elizabeth Moak, piano Zhaolei Xie, staff pianist ORCHESTRAL ACTIVITIES Michael Miles CHORAL ACTIVITIES Gregory Fuller Jonathan Kilgore VOICE Kimberley Davis, voice Taylor Hightower, voice Meredith Johnson, voice Jonathan Yarrington, voice MUSIC EDUCATION Ashley Allen Melody Causby Ian Cicco Stacey Miles

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About the Artists Dr. Michael Miles is a unique brand of musician, whose career includes a blend of musical and academic positions.

Dr. Miles’ academic career includes appointments at Western Carolina University and Florida International University. He also served for seven years as chair at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and six years as director of the School of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Miles’ interest in arts advocacy and education in the community has led him to administrative positions in several community and state organizations. He served on the Hattiesburg Concert Association staff, and as executive director and founder of the Red River Arts Academy, an intensive summer arts training experience for students 14-18 years of age. Dr. Miles also served eight years as president of the Board of Directors of the Red River Arts Council in Durant, Oklahoma.

Dr. Miles’ appreciation for all forms and styles of music are evident in the variety of performing, conducting and music directing positions he has enjoyed. As a trumpet artist, Dr. Miles has performed with dozens of symphony orchestras as featured soloist and principal trumpet, and released a compact disc recording of new music for trumpet and piano by Robert Suderburg and James Wintle, titled Reflections in Times’ Mirror. In addition to his current duties as director of orchestral activities at Southern Miss, Miles’ conducting appointments include music director of the Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera Company, music director of the Oklahoma Youth Symphonies, and music director of the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival. Miles recently conducted the USM Chamber Orchestra in its Carnegie Hall debut and served as guest conductor of the Festival Orchestra at the V Clinicas Instrumentalis in Cartegena, Columbia. In 2013, Dr. Miles served as guest conductor with The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, backing the legendary Beach Boys at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Miles has also served as guest conductor with the Xinghia Conservatory Orchestra of Guangzhou, China, Vidin (Bulgaria) Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, New Mexico University Symphony, and Oklahoma Youth Orchestra.

In his career, Dr. Miles has served as music director/conductor for over 190 musical theatre performances involving 55 different musical theatre productions, including the recent highly acclaimed Southern Miss productions of The Drowsy Chaperone, The Phantom of the Opera, Magic of the Musical Stage, West Side Story, Mary Poppins, Ragtime, Showbiz Showstoppers, Showbiz Harmony and Sweeney Todd. Dr. Miles served as music director of HCLO’s productions of Into the Woods, Cabaret, Wizard of Oz, Camelot and Tommy. Dr. Miles also served as chorus master for the Hub City Players production of Rock of Ages and music director for their production of James and the Giant Peach.

The Phantom of the Opera and James and the Giant Peach productions were awarded the prestigious American Prize for Musical Theater in 2018.

In his tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Dr. Miles led an awardwinning Jazz Ensemble that was recognized by the Oklahoma State Legislature as the “Official Jazz Ambassadors of Oklahoma.” This ensemble made three concert tours of the People’s Republic of China School of the Arts.

Born in Volta Redonda (RJ), Maestra Sarah Higino has a Master in Music degree through the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro where Ms. Higino also got a degree in Piano Performance and Orchestral Conducting under the guidance of Maestro Ernani Aguiar. She has additional conducting studies with Maestro Roberto Tibiriçá, and has participated in several piano performance classes with well-known professors, such as Miriam Daueslberg, Maria da Penha, Heitor Alimonda and Luiz de Carlos de Moura Castro. Ms. Higino has performed as piano soloist and conductor with orchestras throughout Brazil, as well as recording for several TV shows.

In 2019 Ms. Higino debuted in all music platforms with the album Serata with Brazilian songs by Chiquinha Gonzaga, Pattapio Silva e Joaquim Callado, as well as in a duo with the flutist Helder Teixeira.

Ms. Higino has also been invited by several professional orchestras in Brazil to prepare choruses for major works, including the Choros No. 10 by Villas Lobos and the Faure Requiem.

In 2018, Sarah was the guest conductor at the University of Northern Colorado for the 35th Annual Western Orchestra Festival, where she lectured for the university’s Music Education Courses and Festival professors, and conducted the Festival’s closing concert. She also served as a speaker at the II International Symposium of Women Regents in Montevideo, Uruguay where in March, 2020 she served as the guest conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo in the Celebrative Concert for the International Women’s Day. In September 2020, as her second time in that event, Ms. Higino was invited to mediate and coordinate the III international Symposium of Women Conductors, in the Panel of Orchestra and Band Conductors Maestras, which happened online with 976 subscriptions among maestras from 36 countries.

Believing in transformation through music, she works directly as pianist, conductor, teacher, and pedagogical coordinator of the musical educational work developed by the project called “Volta Redonda Cidade da Música”, where 4,600 young students benefit from quality music education in public schools of the city. Over the years, she has performed several national and world premieres of pieces for piano, Choir, Concert Band and Orchestra. Having as one of her main interests the dissemination and propagation of Brazilian Music, in 2021 she began her academic career teaching Brazilian History Music at UBM – Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa.

In 2020 and 2021, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, she has been active as a guest and speaker at several webinars on themes related to Afro-Brazilian music and culture, as well as online concerts, with the aim of encouraging the fight against racism, respect and equality for all.

John Wooton is a lover of music as he performs, teaches, and listens to a variety of genres, but prefers a blend of jazz and several Caribbean styles. Known as a rudimental drumming specialist, John actually gets more work as a singer and steel pan player. So, when he isn’t flipping sticks and playing ratamacues around the globe, you can find him dressed in linen playing at a casino, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, or dressed in style playing at a jazz club in New Orleans. Otherwise you can find him on a basketball or tennis court trying to stay young. He is a 78% free throw shooter and 4.0 tennis player, recently bumped down from a

4.5…, proof that age is winning.

Over his career Dr. Throwdown has played paradiddles with stick tosses, hertas, “Hi Moms”, and “flam 5s” on a snare drum and has sang jazz standards, calypsos, reggae and pop tunes while accompanying himself on his steel pans, in places like Vancouver, Tenerife, The Forbidden City, Novi Sad, Ludz, Madrid, Bucaramanga, Biella, San Juan, Missoula, Rome, Pescara, General Roca, Xinxiang, Buenos Aires, Lima, Houston, Gdansk, Vienna, Cali, Ferrara, Tegucigalpa, Port of Spain, Dallas, London, Mayagüez, Dusseldorf, McAllen, Almeria, and many others. No, the countries are not listed… do your homework. He is an international artist and clinician for several percussion companies, whole heartedly endorsing each one of them, not only for their wonderful products but for the support they all give to percussion education around the world. Those companies are Pearl Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Remo, and Vic Firth. John also endorses Row Loff Productions, publisher for his books, solos and ensembles. Check out all their web sites, not only for wonderful products but also for their educational material. www. rowloff.com John is in his 32nd year of teaching at Southern Miss, close to where he grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, so he gets to enjoy dat great Cajun cuisine and Miss’ippi bar-bque. Doc, as his students call him, loves his job… making music with his students on various percussion instruments. Search Youtube for “Southern Miss Percussion” to enjoy some of the ensembles he teaches. He was educated in Lafayette, Lou., Denton, Texas and Iowa City, Iowa, receiving documents from all three places, but he was also educated by teachers such as Marty Hurley through the experience of drum and bugle corps, specifically the Phantom Regiment from Rockford, Illinois. He has won some prestigious trophies, including several national titles as a soloist, ensemble member, composer and teacher, along the way with these organizations but prefers to play music for the joy of the experience. This past year Dr. Wooton was inducted to the Phantom Regiment Hall of Fame.

You can find John online at VicFirth.com, Youtube, drumeo.com, Soundcloud and johnwooton.com.

The Percusión Ensemble Fundación Cultural Patagonia (Argentina) was created in 1999 by Ángel Frette with the aim of realizing a repertoire approach from chamber music to percussion. It depends on Fundación Cultural Patagonia, develops its main activity in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén. The Ensemble has been active internationally promoting the music of Argentinian composers and performing at major festivals and conferences.

Lisandro Parado is a musician, composer, arranger and performer born in Argentina. He currently serves as Professor of Percussion at the Patagonian Institute University of Arts, and at the Neuquen Higher School of Music in Argentina.

Specializing in percussion, Lisandro has participated in seminars, festivals and tours with various musical groups in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, USA, performing masterclasses and concerts.

Lisandro is currently involved with a variety of artistic projects including performing as a percussionist of the Symphony Orchestra of F.C.P. and the F.C.P. Percussion Ensemble. He has performed perform several solo concerto works with both ensembles.

In 2022, Lisandro composed the “Concert for three Percussionists and Orchestra” which premiered that same year within the framework of the Patagonia International Percussion Festival. Lisandro performed as one of the three soloists in this performance.

Jerónimo Raúl Molina is an Argentine musician and percussionist who has participated in various percussion festivals both in Argentina and in other countries such as the United States, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, and Bolivia. Currently, he works as a professor in the percussion department at the Patagonian Institute of Arts (IUPA) and at the Superior School of Music in Neuquén (ESMN). Additionally, he shares his musical knowledge and experience as a teacher in the Children-Youth Orchestra of the city of Gral, Roca. He is a member of the Percussion Ensemble and the Symphony Orchestra, both groups belonging to the Patagonia Cultural Foundation (F.C.P.).

Furthermore, he has been an active participant in all editions of the International Percussion Festival in the city of Gral, Roca, Rio Negro, from 2003 to the present.

Angel Frette started his percussion studies with Juan Ringer, perfecting them in New York with marimbist William Moersch in 1994 and 1995. Angel has performed the premiere of more than 80 works by Argentine composers, including eight concerts for marimba and orchestra. He performed as a marimba soloist in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Croatia, and in the United States, at the Universities of Miami, Illinois and Minnesota, as well as in the renowned contest organized by the Percussive Arts Society (1999). Angel has also served as an adjudicator at the International Marimba Contest held in Belgium (2001 and 2004), the First South American Contest of Marimbists in Brazil (2003) at the National Marimbist Contest in Chiapas Mexico in 2006, and at the International Marimba Contest in Fermo,Italy (2008). He also worked as percussion teacher for the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, headquartered at the New England Conservatory, Boston (2002). Angel has performed at the Festival de Percusión de Paris, at the Festival de Marimbas in Chiapas (Mexico, 2005 and 2006) and at the Second Festival Internacional de Percusión Tamborimba in Cali (Colombia, 2009).

In 2011 he performed the South American premiere of Rapture, concert for percussion and orchestra by Michael Torke, at Teatro Colón.

Angel has released five compact discs: “La marimba en la Argentina”, “Un camino de tierra”, “Tangos y más”, “Música argentina para percusión” with the Ensamble de Percusión Patagonia and “American Fantasy” that contains the complete work for of pianos and percussion by the Danish composer Kim Helweg, together with Silvia Dabul and Manuel Massone. Angel currently directs the Festival Internacional de Percusión de la Patagonia, which takes place annually in General Roca (Río Negro). Since 1999 he has served as the director of He is the founding member and Director of the Ensamble de Percusión Patagonia, and since 1988, he has been a percussionist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires. Mr. Frette is the General and Artistic Director of Fundación Cultural Patagonia.

The ‘Volta Redonda City of Music’ Project

The ‘Volta Redonda City of Music’ Project, conceived and directed by Maestro Nicolau Martins de Oliveira in 1974, is pioneering in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Leading the project’s artistic and executive team are conductors Sarah Higino and José Sérgio Tôrres da Rocha. The project is implemented in 39 Educational Units of the Municipal Department of Education and Educational Foundation of Volta Redonda, currently reaching over 4,600 students from preschool to high school.

The Project’s primary goal is the sensory development of children, encompassing aspects such as motor coordination, hearing, vision, phonation, touch, attention, memory, and logical reasoning. Using music as a pedagogical tool, students are encouraged to cultivate discipline, regular attendance, punctuality, musical proficiency, academic success, teamwork skills, persistence, and responsibility.

As a result of this endeavor, a variety of musical groups have gradually been established, including the Mini Band, Brass Band, Concert Band, Violin and Viola Orchestra, Cello and Double Bass Orchestra, String Orchestra, Children and Youth Choir, and Mixed Choir.

The Project is sustained and supported by the Municipal Government of Volta Redonda as an extracurricular activity for public school children, offering free music education to all attendees and significantly contributing to the musical and cultural education of the students in the city’s public schools for nearly five decades.

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Bob and Peg Ciraldo Nicholas and Rachel Ciraldo Lewis and Carolynn Clark Dr. Eyler Coates Jr. Ryan and Anna Copeland Amber Cole Robert and Linda Cox Bettie Cox and David Powers Joelle Crook in memory of George T. Crook Alice Crotwell Kimberley Davis Andy and Beejee Dickson Drs. Sergey and Veronica Dzugan Allyson Easterwood Muriel Everton Gary Fordham Pamela Gavin Ms. Allison Gillespie John Griffith and Linda Boutwell-Griffith Wes Hanson Dr. and Mrs. Wendell Helveston Richard D. Hudson Chris and Joyce Inman Betty Jo D. Ison Raoul and Althea Jerome Rebekah and Jeff Johnson LBJ Properties LLC Dr. Jameela Lares Dr. Mike Lopinto in honor of John and Carolyn Lopinto Maureen Martin Megan McCay Jennifer and Kennard McKay Mary Virgnia McKenzie Drs. Jim and Diane Miller Drs. Marvin and Bitsy Browne Miller Lance Nail Dr. Andrew and Suzanna Nida Candace and Kent Oliver Clay Peacock Pinebelth Foundation Brad and Jacquelyne Pittman Aaryanne and Rick Preusch Bradley Seacrest Curt and Petra Redden in memory of Irma Schneider Sharon and David Richardson Dr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Rust Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sackler Alex and Sabrina Schuerger Seth and Carolee Scott David and Teejay Shemper Ed and Diana Simpson Susan Slaughter Delois L. Smith in memory of J. Lavon Smith Tommy and Martha Thornton Deborah Topp Dr. Sharon and Mr. Carey Varnado Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Voss Jr. Kenneth and Barbara Waites Jerry and Diane Waltman Amelia Watkins Aissa Wiggins Paige and Pat Zachary CONTRIBUTOR - $150 Area Development Partnership William and Lynne Baggett Billie Ballengee General Buff and Anita Blount Katherine Boone Mr. Joe Bost and Dr. Katie James Michael Boudreaux Todd and Mary Glenn Bradley Jewel Brantley Tucker in memory of Samuel Tucker The Rev. Laurie Brock Charles A. Brown in memory of Mirneal C. Brown

Sam and Jennifer Bruton Megan Burkes Julia Chaffin Dr. Douglas B. Chambers Ron and Margaret Chapman Mitch and Marcia B. Cochran Jacob Cotton Jennifer Courts LuAnn Knight Crenshaw Alice Crotwell Dr. and Mrs. Randall Currie Jay Dean and Maryann Kyle in memory of Jack and Sara Dean Jerry and Bethanie DeFatta Andrew Dews Steven Ferrell Carol and Gardner Fletcher Andrea Ford Gary Fordham Nancy Guice in memory of Dr. John D. W. Guice Barbara Hamilton Benjamin Hardy Dr. and Mrs. Robert Heath in honor of Sarah K. Heath John and Susan Howell Elizabeth Hughes Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson Rosi and Dex Johnson Ivonne Kawas Debbie Killen Mike and Linda Kuykendall Marcia M. Landen Mr. John Logan Melinda and Alan Lucas Marcos Machado Beth Mayo Jamison Milo and Jackie McCarthy Ellen McKenzie Bebe McLeod and Bill McLeod in memory of Dr. John A. McLeod III Larry and Margaret McMahan Kathy J. Cornelius McMahon in honor of Kate Smith Bill McHugh Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Messer Jr. in honor of Dr. Mike Lopinto John and Louise Meyer Astrid Mussiett in memory of Gladys S. Mussiett Heath Nobles Dr. Francis Laatsch and Susan Reiter Bill and Martha Resay Ben and Jackie McIlwain Danilo Mezzadri Dr. Mark Miller Deborah and Steve Moore John Mullins in honor of Jim Meade Mr. and Mrs. Hal E. Odom Dr. Roderick and Eula Posey Bob and Betty Press Ellen Price-Elder Charles and Anita Price Jann and George Puckett in honor of DeAnna Douglas Louis N. Rackoff and Elizabeth Slaby Mr. and Mrs. William K. Ray Bill and Martha Resavy Sherrie Mitchell Richmond Mark Rigsby and Melanie Eubanks Marc Edward Rivet Barbara Ann Ross Ellen Ruffin David Sliman Tayvi Smith Joseph Steadman in memory of Betty A. Steadman Sally and Garland Sullivan in memory of Garland H. Williams Sidney and Barbara Sytsma Richard and Debra Topp Jennifer Torres

Lisa and Greg Vickers Jacqueline and Michael Vlaming Brittney Westbrook Aissa Wiggins Larry G. Williamson FRIEND - $50 Michael Aderibigbe Nikki Acord Kimberly Ainsworth Dr. Jenna and Mr. Daniel Barton Richard Edward Beckford Chris and Elizabeth Bedenbaugh Drs. Joshua and Diana Bernstein Cindy Bivins Day Bookout Dr. Cherie and Mr. Lance Bowe Chris and Lisa Bowen Dr. and Mrs. Bob Brahan Rashonda Brown-Hughes Joe Brumbeloe William Byars Kathy and Ben Carmichael Matthew Casey Dr. Adam Clay Jim and Deedré Coll Darcie Conrad Brooke Cruthirds Drs. J.P. and Lisa Culpepper John Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daughdrill Melissa Jean David Becky Pruett Denham Dannika Dewhurst Diane Dobson Steve and Mary Dryden Helen Edwards Kelly Ellis Elissa Ernst Carol and Gardner Fletcher Barbara Jane Foote David Fortenberry Olivia Clare Friedman Emily Jane Gallaspy Monika Gehlawat Heather and Ken Graves in memory of Robert Jeremy Lespi Jeff Greene Bruno D. Griffin Julie Hammond George and Diana Hardin Anita Hearon Frances B. Hegwood Brenda Hesselgrave Marsha Hester Dr. Eddie and Sarah Holloway Dale and Emily Holmes Wanda J. Howard in memory of Mrs. Beth Curlee Dr. Luis A. Iglesias Casey Jarman Cheryl D. Jenkins Jane W. Jones Lisa Jones Nicolle Jordan and Thomas O’Brien Dr. and Mrs. Charles Junek Kailey Kemp Penny and Gene Kochtitzky Lorinda Krhut Wendy Kulzer Capt. Karl Langenbach III in memory of Betty Langenbach Karen LeBeau Kelly Ferris Lester Linde and Jeff Lynn Jessica Magee Tammy Martin Kelli McCloskey Robert Angus McTyre Barry Monday Kristie Murphy Christa Nelson

Chuck Nestor in memory of Dr. Charles Nestor Sr. Katherine Olexa Kathy Owens Robert Pierce Peter and Kathy Pikul Amy Rogers Pelton in memory of Betty C. Rogers Morris James Pettis in memory of Linda C. Pettis Charles and Nellie Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Zeke W. Powell Jr. Ashley Price Charles Ray Julie Reid Barbara L. Ross Dr. Alexander Russakovsky Bill and Rosalie Schoell Elizabeth and Scott Schwartz Chris and Allie Seay Linda Seifert Erin Sessions Jae-Hwa Shin Valerie C. Simmons Ken and Carol Simpson Dana William Skelton Carroll and Dura Smith Blaise Sonnier Rebecca G. Stark Edward N. Stephens William K. Stevens Kenneth and Virginia Stevens Lorraine A. Stuart David and Katie Sullivan Dr. Timothy J. Tesh Hayden Tharpe Gabby Theriot Janet and Pat Tidmore David Tisdale Susannah J. Ural and John Rasberry in memory of Dr. William F. Ural Krystyna Varnado Betty Lynn and Joe Ed Varner in memory of Virginia H. Culpepper Lee Anne Venable Cathy Gulli Ventura Mr. and Mrs. Blake Weathersby Kisha Welford Anne G. Wilkins in memory of Bert Wilkins Cory R. Williams Alehandro Wooten Christine Wooton Dr. John Wooton

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C ontinue yourVoyage!

Amahl

Night Visitors and the

November 2, 2023 - 7:30 p.m. and November 5, 2023 - 2 p.m.

The Thomas V. Fraschillo Stage at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center

Holiday C horal Spectacular Tuesday, November, 28, 2023 - 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 7:30 p.m.

Main Street Baptist Church

The Titan

Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 7:30 p.m.

Bennett Auditorium

Vienna Venice to

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 7:30 p.m.

Bennett Auditorium

Madrid to Rome Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 7:30 p.m.

Bennett Auditorium

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