Thank you for joining us for this performance of Utah Symphony’s Deer Valley® Music Festival, which we hope is but one of many concerts that you will enjoy with us this summer.
Music is the universal language. Now more than ever, music brings us together and offers optimism and inspiration. Music in the mountains with the Utah Symphony and exceptional guest artists truly delivers Life Elevated
This experience is possible due to your presence and to the financial support of a growing number of donors who value the connection of communities through great live music. The founding of the festival more than 20 years ago was made possible by the vision and generosity of the Prothro Family, the Shiebler Family, and Jim and Susan Swartz. It has been their continuing generosity, and that of our other major donors led by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, which has made each year more successful than the last. (Please see pages 87–95 for a full list of our supporters and be sure to join us in thanking them for their support when you see them.)
As you look through this program, we think you’ll agree that we have a varied and exciting group of artists joining our renowned orchestra for this year’s festival. Whether you are lounging under the stars savoring great food and music with friends and family at Deer Valley Resort’s Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater or enjoying a glorious evening of chamber orchestra music in the stunning acoustics of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, we know these are experiences you will remember and treasure for years to come.
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THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
LAWRENCE LOH, conductor
NIKKI RENÉE DANIELS, vocalist
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TRADITIONAL
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Described as bringing an “artisan storyteller’s sensitivity… shaping passages with clarity and power via beautifully sculpted dynamics… revealing orchestral character not seen or heard before” (Arts Knoxville), Lawrence Loh enjoys a dynamic career as a conductor of orchestras all over the world.
After an extensive two year search, Lawrence Loh was recently named Music Director of the Waco Symphony Orchestra beginning in the spring of 2024. Since 2015, he has served as Music Director of The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly called Symphoria), the successor to the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Loh will hold this position until the end of the 2024–2025 season. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that might have seemed impossible at the beginning,” (Syracuse.com). The Syracuse Orchestra and Lawrence Loh show that it is possible to create a “new, more sustainable artistic institution from the ground up.”
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Nikki Renée Daniels Vocalist
Nikki Renée Daniels recently starred in Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Larken) and in the Tony Award-winning revival of Company (Jenny) on Broadway. She played Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton at the CIBC Center in Chicago. Other Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Nabulungi); the 2012 Tony Award-winning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Clara); Les Misérables (Fantine); Nine; Aida; Little Shop of Horrors; The Look of Love; Promises, Promises along with Anything Goes and Lestat. She made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Other New York credits include Martha Jefferson in 1776 at City Center Encores! and Eve/Mama Noah in the New York premiere of Children of Eden at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.
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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
LAWRENCE LOH , conductor
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Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
“A Prayer for Peace” from Munich
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“Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Aunt Marge’s Waltz” from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Harry’s Wondrous World” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Imperial March” from Star Wars Suite for Orchestra
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“Here They Come!” from Music of the Star Wars Saga
“Princess Leia’s Theme” from Star Wars Suite for Orchestra
“Main Title” from Star Wars
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Lawrence Loh Conductor
Described as bringing an “artisan storyteller’s sensitivity… shaping passages with clarity and power via beautifully sculpted dynamics… revealing orchestral character not seen or heard before” (Arts Knoxville), Lawrence Loh enjoys a dynamic career as a conductor of orchestras all over the world.
After an extensive two year search, Lawrence Loh was recently named Music Director of the Waco Symphony Orchestra beginning in the spring of 2024. Since 2015, he has served as Music Director of The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly called Symphoria), the successor to the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Loh will hold this position until the end of the 2024–2025 season. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that might have seemed impossible at the beginning,” (Syracuse.com). The Syracuse Orchestra and Lawrence Loh show that it is possible to create a “new, more sustainable artistic institution from the ground up.”
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Stravinsky’s
THE SOLDIER’S TALE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025 / 8:00 PM / ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
YANIV DINUR, conductor
KEVIN NAKATANI, narrator
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ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
Catch and Release (22’)
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STRAVINSKY
L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) (60’)
Yaniv Dinur Conductor
Yaniv Dinur is the winner of the 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Fellow Award and Music Director of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He is lauded for his insightful interpretations and unique ability to connect with concertgoers of all ages and backgrounds, from season subscribers to symphony newcomers.
Season 2024-25 marks the beginning of Dinur’s third contract with New Bedford Symphony and his eighth season as music director. Under his leadership, the New Bedford Symphony has been nationally recognized for its bold, engaging programming and artistic quality, leading to the League of American Orchestras selecting the orchestra to perform at the 2021 League Conference.
Dinur recently concluded a successful tenure as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, during which he conducted hundreds of concerts. Recognizing his leadership and impact, the Milwaukee Business Journal selected him as a 40 Under 40 honoree, an award for young professionals making a difference in the community.
Kevin Nakatani Narrator
Praised for his “substantial bass and deft dramatic abilities,” Kevin Nakatani commands the stage in both opera and musical theatre with equal finesse. His dynamic repertoire includes standout roles such as Général Audebert in Silent Night, Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Zuniga in Carmen, and Jud Fry in Oklahoma!. Nakatani has performed with esteemed companies including Utah Opera, Opera San José, Opera Idaho, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre. Past appearances with Utah Symphony include narrator in Gardens of Stone, The Doctor in Act III of Wozzeck, and featured guest artist in the “75 Years of Broadway” concert. Originally from California, Nakatani has proudly called Utah home for over 15 years, where he continues to inspire audiences with his “clear bass,” “remarkable range,” and “convincing characterizations.”
Esa-Pekka Salonen modestly says that he first took up conducting to ensure that someone would conduct his own compositions. He needn’t have worried—his innate musical curiosity and love for combining old and new styles have made his music sought-after by classical music ensembles and audiences the world over. Conducting was also no accidental career. Salonen conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1992 until 2009, the longest tenure in the orchestra’s history.
The History
A native of Finland, Salonen’s music often combines music history with new musical innovations. An advocate for Stravinsky’s music, Salonen wrote Catch and Release as a companion piece to The Soldier’s Tale, intending them to be played together.
lasting influence in the American West: Salonen through the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Stravinsky through his permanent residence in Los Angeles beginning in 1940, where he frequently conducted the Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl.
Like Stravinsky’s music, Catch and Release also asks a lot of its musicians: it hinges on technical virtuosity, rhythmic precision, and a wide expressive range. Even though Catch and Release doesn’t depict a specific narrative or story, the music projects a scene of the joyful and risky benefits of human love and morality. Humorous, blithe, and hopeful, Salonen’s music evokes the joyful pursuit of love and the contingency of change. It embodies optimism without naivete, is ephemeral yet substantive, and achieves profundity without cynicism. Each of the three movements develop from an interconnected set of rhythmic and melodic themes, conceived both as rhetorical moments and as ostinatos that flow through the entire piece. Listen for a wide dynamic range and changing timbres from each instrument. Prepare to enjoy some silence at the end of the piece—the final ‘release’ from the title. In the last few seconds, the instruments fade quickly from a fortissimo into just the vibrating of strings—smudging the line between sound and silence.
The World/Connection
Salonen and Stravinsky are connected artistically and politically. Finland was a subject of the Russian Empire from 1808 to 1917; its declaration of independence formed part of the Russian Revolution that inspired Stravinsky’s exile in the West and an allegorical interpretation of The Soldier’s Tale. Both composer-conductors also had a long-
Igor Stravinsky was an international celebrity by the time The Soldier’s Tale debuted in September 1918 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Born to a noble from modernday Eastern Poland, Stravinsky identified with Russian nationalism and, initially at least, supported the centuriesold Romanov dynasty of Russian emperors. This changed drastically with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, a crisis that piled pressure on the Empire’s already-rocky foundation. In the previous two decades, Tsar Nicholas II was involved in a hubristic imperial expansion in both Asia and Europe. Soon, he had over-extended his military resources, vastly over-estimated the nation’s supply chains, all while doing irretrievable damage to his popularity with both the aristocracy and working class in St. Petersburg and Russia’s western colonies. By 1917, Nicholas was forced to pull out of the Great War to address the Bolshevik Revolution at home. His effort was futile: Lenin’s troops executed Nicholas and his family, took over the government, and formally organized the USSR in 1922.
Like many Russian nationals, Stravinsky retained a lifelong nostalgia for Russian culture and lands. He imagined an alternative history in which Russia could have avoided both autocratic rule of a selfish Tsar and the deeply-flawed socialist regime that followed. This stance, and an at-best indifference toward Lenin and the socialist regime, led Stravinsky to be antagonized by the socialist government for decades. In his turn, Stravinsky embraced Western European culture in all its forms, encouraged his colleagues in Russia to work against Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and returned to the USSR only in 1962, having departed on a temporary vacation in 1914.
The History
Stravinsky’s decision to combine The Soldier’s Tale, a Russian story, with a French libretto and EuropeanAmerican musical themes, reflects his inner turmoil about his national identity and his embrace of Euro-American
HISTORY OF THE MUSIC — THE SOLDIER’S TALE
culture. The Soldier’s Tale tells the fateful story of Joseph, a young and ambitious soldier who shortsightedly sells a violin to the Devil in exchange for wealth and clairvoyance. The soldier gradually realizes that the true price of his deal was not the violin, but his own agency and identity. The Devil’s offer to guide Joseph through his new life begins in a three-year imprisonment, during which Joseph’s family believes he has died at war. When he returns to his village, his friends and family flee from him, thinking he is a ghost. He even finds his fiancée married to another man. Disillusioned and angry, Joseph decides to seek his fortune, leaving behind his old life and loved ones.
At first glance, the soldier appears to be successful. He saves a princess, marries her, and gains money and fame. However, the Devil lurks at every turn of fortune with more demands, caveats, and contests. Every time Joseph beats him back, Joseph is blinded even more by his own obsession with power while the Dwwevil becomes more powerful. Finally, when Joseph realizes that he has lost his soul, he leaves his palace in search of his mother. In one final trick, Joseph learns that seeking his own soul threatens that of his new wife. Only too late does the
soldier realize the source of his true happiness and the disastrous effects of his avarice on his own identity and those he loves.
Whether performed in French or in English (as in tonight’s performance), Stravinsky’s western musical themes come through: the princess dance features jazz, tango, waltz, and ragtime dances, all of which were especially popular in the early 20th century in Stravinsky’s adopted home of Paris. Additional references to Klezmer music and JS Bach— particularly in the final Grand Chorale and the evocation of Martin Luther’s “Ein Feste Burg” (“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”), draw on the fashionable Bach Revival that spread across Europe and North American in the early 1900s, especially in urban areas like Paris.
The World/Connection
The timing of Stravinsky’s premiere of The Soldier’s Tale turns it into an indictment of Russian politics. Like the soldier, Tsar Nicholas II’s own lust for imperial expansion and Russian ethnic dominance exposed his own government’s weakness and ultimately destroyed the Russian empire.
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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ , conductor COMMON UTAH SYMPHONY
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Enrico Lopez-Yañez Conductor
Enrico Lopez-Yañez has quickly established himself as one of the nation’s leading conductors of popular music and become known for his unique style of audience engagement. Lopez-Yañez holds the titled positions of Principal Pops Conductor of the Detroit and Pacific Symphonies, Principal Conductor of Dallas Symphony Presents, and Principal Guest Conductor of Pops at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He previously served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Nashville Symphony for eight seasons.
As a trailblazer in the symphonic world, Lopez-Yañez has premiered dozens of orchestral collaborations with artists including Dolly Parton, Kelsea Ballerini, Portugal. The Man, The Mavericks, Tituss Burgess, and The War and Treaty. Lopez-Yañez has collaborated with a broad spectrum of artists including Nas, Patti LaBelle, Itzhak Perlman, Kenny Loggins, Stewart Copeland, Toby Keith, Richard Marx, Bernadette Peters, Leslie Odom Jr., Gladys Knight, Ben Folds, The Beach Boys, Tower of Power, Kenny G, and more.
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THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
TED SPERLING , conductor
CHESTER GREGORY, vocalist
MORGAN JAMES , vocalist
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— THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON
Ted Sperling Conductor
Ted Sperling is a multi-faceted artist; director, music director, conductor, orchestrator, singer, pianist, violinist, and violist. He is the Artistic Director of MasterVoices and Music Director of the recent Broadway productions of My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, and The King and I He has directed the premiere productions of The Other Josh Cohen, Red Eye of Love, Striking 12, and See What I Wanna See, all off-Broadway.
A Tony Award winner for his orchestrations of The Light in the Piazza, Sperling is known for his work across many genres, including opera, oratorio, musical theater, symphony, and pops. His video interpretation of Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns can be viewed on the PBS channel, AllArts, where you can also view his concert of Carole King songs. He earned rapturous reviews for his production of Stephen Sondheim’s The Frogs at Lincoln Center, Lady in the Dark with MasterVoices at NY City Center as well as others.
Chester Gregory Vocalist
Chester Gregory is an award-winning singer and actor. He was last seen starring in Motown: The Musical as the iconic Berry Gordy. Broadway credits include Motown: The Musical, Hairspray, Tarzan, Cry-Baby, and Sister Act. Other credits include August Wilson’s Fences and Two Trains Running. He has toured nationally with Dreamgirls, Sister Act, as well as his one-man show The Eve of Jackie Wilson. Chester has received many awards, including the Jeff Award and a NAACP Theatre Award, and has been presented the key to the city of his hometown of Gary, Indiana and in East Chicago. He has also been chosen as an Honorary State Representative of Indiana and has received an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater Columbia College Chicago. He is currently producing several projects and recordings. Add him on social media @ChesterGregory and chestergregory.com.
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Morgan James Vocalist
Morgan James is a classically trained vocalist, Broadway veteran, and recording artist.
Morgan recently paid tribute to Judy Garland for her centennial, where she most recently performed “Get Happy” with Sinfonia Gulf Coast and Nashville Symphony.
Ms. James is a frequent symphony pops soloist, and most recently she premiered her brand new show “Symphonic Soul: The Magic of the Memphis Sound” with the Virginia Symphony, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfonia Gulf Coast. Other appearances include the Cleveland Pops, Houston Symphony, Sun Valley Music Festival, American Pops Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Utah Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, Gulf Coast Symphony, Missouri Symphony, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Ocean City Pops, Greensboro Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Allentown Symphony, Lansing Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Long Bay Symphony, and many more.
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MOZART VS. SALIERI
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2025 / 8:00 PM / ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
JESSICA RIVERO ALTARRIBA , conductor UTAH SYMPHONY
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Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (4’)
Sinfonia from Prima la musica poi le parole (3’)
Sinfonia Veneziana (9’)
I. Allegro assai
II. Andantino grazioso
III. Presto
Overture to La clemenza di Tito (5’)
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Symphony No. 38 in D major “Prague” (23’)
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Jessica Rivero Altarriba Conductor
Nuanced interpretations, dynamic energy, and a charismatic stage presence are hallmarks of Cuban conductor Jessica Rivero Altarriba. Praised for her communicative skills, impactful performances, and equally vested in both established and well-known repertoire and contemporary compositions, Altarriba currently serves as Assistant Conductor for the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera and is a Taki Alsop Fellowship Award Recipient (2024-26). Altarriba is concurrently pursuing her master’s degree in conducting at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
Altarriba programs and leads a diverse set of concerts in the upcoming year. This June and July she is conducting Utah Symphony’s Summer Community Concerts as well as select concerts during the Deer Valley® Music Festival including the July 16 Chamber Series Mozart vs. Salieri and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture concert closing the festival. From July 28 – August 5, she participates in the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles National Festival in California, collaborating with LA Philharmonic Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, YOLA Artistic Director Gaudy Sanchez, and the YOLA National Team in festival programming and conducting a final concert in collaboration with Dudamel.
By Ruth Eldredge
The Composers
Mozart and Salieri might be the most long-lived classical music rivals in history. Even if most of the plot from Miloš Forman’s 1983 film Amadeus is largely fabricated, it does depict the composers’ close relationship and their—by all historical accounts friendly—personal competition as Vienna’s most prominent composers.
Mozart and Salieri’s rivalry itself has deeper historical significance: it symbolizes the very real aesthetic tug-of-war between German and Italian operatic styles that played out in eighteenth-century Viennese theatrical life. Neither Mozart nor Salieri were strictly Viennese, but both made their careers in Vienna and depended at least in part on influencing the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II’s musical tastes.
In many ways, Salieri was Mozart’s opposite. Hailing from northern Italy, Salieri was orphaned in early adolescence. He arrived in Vienna in 1766 under the guardianship of Florian Leopold Gassman, the chamber composer to Emperor Joseph II, who groomed Salieri to be his successor. Salieri eventually became the director of Vienna’s Italian opera house and enjoyed considerable fame across Europe as Joseph II’s court conductor.
Salieri’s secure, salaried position didn’t future-proof his career, though, and it certainly didn’t protect him from Mozart’s popularity. Despite having the famous Salieri at his beck and call, Joseph regularly commissioned outside composers to write for both his Italian and German opera houses.
Le nozze de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is a veritable warhorse of the classical repertory: the overture is heard as often, perhaps more, in the concert hall as it is in the opera house. Nonetheless, it was a risky way for Mozart to start ingratiating himself to the Viennese patrons and public. Despite its catchy tunes, the opera’s subversive theme, in which a female servant outsmarts a male aristocrat, and scandalous acknowledgement of aristocratic sexual misconduct, made it much more popular with the public than with the opera’s sponsors.
The Marriage of Figaro is a fast-paced, mad-cap comedy involving Susanna and Figaro, two servants who expose the hypocrisy of their master, orchestrate their mistresses’ exoneration, and save their friend from banishment, all on their wedding day. The plot’s quick turns and humorous feel are all foreshadowed in the overture. A racing musical theme evokes secrets being whispered into ears, schemes unfolding and disguises revealed. Sudden fortissimo passages rudely interrupt the musical progress. A flirtatious center section and return of the quick-paced rhythms of the first theme suggests that, despite everyone’s foibles, the day will end in forgiveness.
The Marriage of Figaro is often considered one of opera’s great masterpieces. Don’t be surprised if you come across it in pop culture references like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The opera first premiered in Joseph II’s Italian opera house in Vienna in 1786.
Enjoying the prospect of a competition, in 1786, Joseph commissioned one opera from each composer that would be performed at a private party, one after the other. Taking place at the lavish Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna for an exclusive audience, two stages were built on opposite sides of the vast Orangerie--one for Mozart’s German opera, and another for Salieri’s Italian opera. Mozart’s opera came first; Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario), is a German Singspiel. Mozart displayed his characteristic fiendishness by casting Catarina Cavalieri, well-known to be Salieri’s mistress, as the opera’s incorrigible main character.
The day, however, went to Salieri. His opera Prima la musica poi le parole, a portion of which is featured on tonight’s concert, was given twice the time to perform as was Mozart’s opera, and Salieri ultimately received twice the pay. Like Mozart, Salieri took a personal shot at Mozart and the plot-driven German Singspiel style by engaging his characters in a debate as to whether the music or the words and plot were the most important part of an opera. Mozart had called his own operetta “a comedy with music,” suggesting that the plot was more important than the music. On the contrary, in Salieri’s music the composer wins the day by proclaiming that in opera of true quality, the music always comes first.
HISTORY OF THE MUSIC — MOZART VS. SALIERI
S
infonia Veneziana
// 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings //
The History
Unlike Mozart, Salieri wrote little instrumental music outside of opera overtures—perhaps he was too busy writing operas, running the court music industry, and teaching students like Beethoven and Schubert. This didn’t stop music publishers from capitalizing on Salieri’s fame, productivity, and the relative lack of copyright laws: Sinfonia Veneziana is a pastiche of three opera overtures, all of which enjoyed great success in their day but are littleknown today. Its name references Salieri himself: Salieri was educated and discovered in Venice and was widely known as ‘The Venetian’ composer in Viennese circles.
Mozart and Salieri’s rivalry continued in 1791, when Leopold II, the new king of Bohemia, commissioned a new opera to be premiered as part of his coronation festivities. His first choice was Salieri, and only when he declined was Mozart offered the job. Leopold benefited from this change of plan: Mozart was hugely popular in Prague, the Bohemian capital, and his commission met with approval from the city’s inhabitants. The overture’s opening fanfare and grand style are a fitting celebration of Leopold’s coronation, in addition to making a majestic introduction to the opera itself.
If Salieri and Mozart battled for notoriety in Viennese opera halls, Mozart’s instrumental music stood out on its own. Nonetheless, Symphony No. 38, nicknamed “Prague,” also has operatic connections. Mozart wrote the symphony to be premiered in Prague in 1786, in hopes of gaining a commission for an opera.
Even today, the “Prague” Symphony is still considered one of the most innovative symphonic works ever written. The symphony shows off Mozart’s wide range of talents and musical interests and his love for Prague’s welcoming audiences. The complicated counterpoint of the first movement demonstrates his newfound love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, even if it would never be mistaken for a work by the Baroque composer. The complex counterpoint and experimental, proto-diatonic harmonies were inspired by Bach; the symphony’s frenetic pace and singable melodic lines are characteristically Mozart’s. The grand scale of the first movement makes it comparable in length to the first movement of Beethoven’s Third Symphony.
Mozart left nothing to chance in his bid for the love of Prague’s audiences--the symphony’s third movement also quotes a scene from The Marriage of Figaro, which was hugely popular in Prague, making up for its modest reception in Vienna. The “Prague” symphony itself has lived on to become one of Mozart’s most-beloved instrumental works and one of the defining pieces of symphonic form.
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Australian conductor Ron Spigelman was recently appointed the Principal Pops Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic. Earlier in his career he was the Associate Conductor with the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Fort Worth Symphony, Music Director of the Texas Ballet Theater, San Angelo Symphony (TX), Texas Chamber Orchestra, Springfield Symphony (MO), and the Lake Placid Sinfonietta (NY) where he is now Conductor Emeritus. He has also served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Fort Worth and Syracuse Symphony.
Recent guest conducting appearances include the Atlanta, St. Louis, Baltimore, Utah, Oregon, Kansas City, Vancouver, and Nashville Symphonies, and the Louisville, Florida, and Minnesota Orchestras.
He has conducted symphonic, ballet, opera, musical theatre, and pops plus over 30 live-to-film productions including all eight of the Harry Potter films. Guest artists he has accompanied include Horacio Gutierrez; Rachel Barton Pine; Richard Stoltzman; Marvin Hamlisch; Peter, Paul & Mary; James Taylor; Leslie Odom Jr.; Gladys Knight, and many others.
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BALLET MUSIC: RAVEL & STRAVINSKY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2025 / 8:00 PM / ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
CONNER GRAY COVINGTON , conductor
KATHRYN EBERLE , violin
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Selections from Idomeneo (13”)
I. Chaconne
II. Pas de seul
Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss for Violin and String Orchestra (22’)
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Mother Goose (complete ballet) (28’)
Conner Gray Covington Conductor
Described by Yannick Nézet-Séguin as “a musician who lives the music,” American conductor Conner Gray Covington performs an unusually broad repertory of symphonic, opera, and film repertoire ranging from classical to the present day. During his four-year tenure with the Utah Symphony as Associate Conductor and as Principal Conductor of the Deer Valley® Music Festival he conducted nearly 300 performances of classical subscription, education, film, pops, and family concerts as well as tours throughout the state. Previously, he was a Conducting Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music where he worked closely with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, with whom he made his Carnegie Hall debut, and the Curtis Opera Theatre while being mentored by Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Covington is a five-time recipient of a Career Assistance Award from the Solti Foundation U.S. and was a featured conductor in the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview presented by the League of American Orchestras.
Kathryn Eberle Violin
Acclaimed by The Salt Lake Tribune as “marrying unimpeachable technical skill with a persuasive and perceptive voice,” violinist Kathryn Eberle is the Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony and the Concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Los Angeles. Eberle has also served as Guest Concertmaster with the Kansas City, Omaha, and Richmond Symphonies.
Eberle performs annually as soloist with the Utah Symphony with whom she’s performed over 10 works as a featured soloist. She made her subscription series debut with the Utah Symphony in April 2014 performing Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade. Other solo appearances include performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, and the Bahia Symphony in Brazil.
An avid chamber musician, Eberle has collaborated with such artists as Edgar Meyer, Jaime Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt, and Ricardo Morales and has been a guest artist at numerous music festivals.
Mozart’s addition of a ballet to his 1781 opera Idomeneo was both traditional and fiscally strategic. The noble tales and stuffy reputation of opera seria were on the decline, but ballet was a perennial fan favorite. It easily attracted lower-class audiences to the opera, who paid less for their seats, but comprised the lion’s share of income for the composers and opera houses. Adding ballet into opera was so common in Mozart’s day that the Munich Opera House, where Idomeneo premiered, kept an in-house French ballet troupe at the ready for just such occasions.
Though not prone to self-reflection, Stravinsky was at least able to repurpose the music and eventually rescue the ballet. He immediately set out to arrange the music for the concert hall, both for the intimate combination of violin and piano and in a larger orchestral version. His quick thinking might have also inspired New York-based George Balanchine to rechoreograph the ballet in the early 1930s, giving Stravinsky a new introduction to American audiences.
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tragic tale The Ice Maiden, the ballet depicts the downfall of a jealous lover who kisses his mother’s murderer—the Ice Queen—in revenge for what he believes to be his fiancée’s infidelity. As he often did, Stravinsky combined western European stories with his own Russian heritage. Musically and thematically, The Fairy’s Kiss is an homage to Stravinsky’s compatriot Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Stravinsky blended his own classically-inspired melodies with those from Tchaikovsky’s vocal and piano music, showing his respect for their shared love of Russian culture. Stravinsky also claimed that he chose the story to honor Tchaikovsky’s early death at age 53—both the main character and the composer died at the peak of their creative powers.
Even though ballet was considered an essential part of an opera, it had no clear connection to Idomeneo’s plot or musical style. None of the main characters participate in the ballet, and unlike staged ballets, it had no story line of its own. Where the ballet belongs in the opera was also anyone’s guess: in the first performance, Mozart placed the ballet at the end of Act 3, during the finale celebration of the coronation of a new king. However, even Mozart himself appears to have moved the ballet around: in some it appeared in the first act, and in others it was presented during the intermission. Both of these places would have appeased impatient audiences by presenting the ballet a little sooner in the evening and enticed them to come back for more.
Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
// Solo violin and strings //
The History
Igor Stravinsky’s The Fairy’s Kiss continues the theme of foreign composers borrowing from, and assimilating into, French ballet culture. Stravinsky was already an international celebrity, largely due to his French ballets, when he wrote The Fairy’s Kiss in 1928, but he wasn’t immune to mistakes. Instead of handing the score over to his longtime choreographer Sergei Diaghilev, Stravinsky entrusted this one to Bronislava Nijinska, Diaghilev’s chief rival. This move deeply offended Diaghilev and widened a growing rift between him and Stravinsky. It also might have cratered the whole production: Nijinska’s production flopped, and Stravinsky blamed the poor choreography and costumes.
The History
Ravel’s Mother Goose ballet is the only French ballet written by a French composer on this program. A confirmed bachelor, Ravel nonetheless loved children and children’s stories. He originally wrote the Mother Goose Suite in 1908 as a gift to Mimi and Jean Godebski, the children of Ravel’s close friends, who he also hoped would perform the piece. The suite’s original five movements each depicted a single scene from popular fairy tales, such as “Sleeping Beauty,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Tom Thumb,” and the lesser known, but equally magical, “Empress of the Pagodas.”
Three years later, Ravel expanded the piano duet into a ballet version, the full course of which is heard tonight. Ravel wove the original five tableaus into an elevenmovement piece, to which he also added an overarching narrative centered on the story of “Sleeping Beauty.” The various tales and characters weave in and out of each other, not unlike the modern musical Into the Woods, so that multiple fairy tales take place simultaneously in a single enchanted forest.
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The full piece adds a prelude, two new movements, and four mood-setting interludes, all played without pauses. The first movement sets the scene of an enchanted forest, creating a feel of a distant and fantastic world, and anticipating melodic themes from each story. Mother Goose herself appears in the second movement, spinning on a wheel whose rhythmic treadle can be heard in the tambourine.
Sleeping Beauty appears in the third movement, where she has pricked her finger on the spinning wheel and falls into an enchanted sleep. The fourth movement transitions the listeners from Sleeping Beauty’s plight to a conversation between Beauty and the Beast. In the fifth movement, we meet the Beast, a contrabassoon, as he proposes marriage to Beauty, who has seen his true value despite his terrifying appearance. The sixth movement, another interlude, again transitions to a tableau of Tom Thumb, the miniscule boy who has discovered that he is lost in a gigantic forest after birds have eaten the breadcrumbs he dropped to mark his path. The eighth movement prepares listeners to visit the mystical world of the orient, the pinnacle of exoticism for Ravel. In the ninth movement, we see the Chinese empress Laideronnette taking a playful bath, surrounded by pagodas.
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A final interlude in the tenth movement anticipates all the fairy tales converging into a single fantastic universe. Prince Charming has discovered Sleeping Beauty’s whereabouts, and, convinced of their mutual love, he bestows love’s first kiss to waken her. All the inhabitants of the enchanted forest join to celebrate. In a joyful climax, the Fairy Queen arrives to bless the Sleeping Beauty and the Prince’s intention to marry. The pealing of church bells, depicted in both the low strings and percussion, signal the final happy ending.
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Widely recognized for his imaginative programming and spirited yet heartfelt music making with orchestras, Wesley Schulz’ conducting has been deemed “spectacular.” Schulz is Music Director and Conductor of the Auburn Symphony Orchestra (WA) and was formerly the Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony. As a guest conductor, Schulz has appeared with the Seattle, Austin, Tallahassee, Canton, Williamsburg, Greenville, Richmond (IN), Waco, and Bozeman Symphony Orchestras among many others. Schulz is Principal Guest Conductor at the Pacific Northwest Ballet leading performances of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet as well as George Balanchine’s production of Tchaikovsky’s, The Nutcracker.
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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
MICHAEL RAFTER , conductor
SUTTON FOSTER , vocalist
KELLI O’HARA , vocalist
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Michael Rafter Conductor
Michael Rafter, Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at Ball State University, has served as music director/arranger for Sutton Foster for The New York Pops, Live From Lincoln Center, and over 100 concerts worldwide. Most recently, he was the music director/ conductor of Funny Girl on Broadway. Music supervisor: Funny Girl (National Tour); associate music supervisor: Jersey Boys. Other music direction for Broadway: Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Sound of Music, The King & I, Gypsy, The Most Happy Fella, Sweet Charity, Swing, Les Misérables, The Tap Dance Kid Off Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, Violet. Film and TV: Marriage Story, CODA, Annette, Music and Lyrics, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Tonight Show (Johnny Carson, Jimmy Fallon), Direction), and Kevin Bacon, Joan Osborne, Mandy Moore, Cyndi Lauper, Darius Rucker, and Shawn Colvin. Music supervisor: Buddy, Sunset Boulevard, Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Sutton Foster Vocalist
Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer, most recently seen in an acclaimed turn as Princess Winnifred in the Broadway revival Once Upon a Mattress at the Hudson Theatre. She previously reprised the role at New York City Center Encores! and the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Foster also starred as Mrs. Lovett in the Tony-winning revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opposite Aaron Tveit.
In 2022, she played Marian Paroo in The Music Man on Broadway, earning her seventh Tony nomination and the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award. In 2021, she reprised her role as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes in London, receiving an Olivier Award nomination.
Foster starred in TV Land’s Younger for seven seasons and has appeared in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Bunheads. Her Broadway credits include Anything Goes, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Violet, and more. She has released three solo albums and a memoir, Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Ball State University, where she also teaches.
Kelli O’Hara Vocalist
Kelli O’Hara has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. She has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning for The King and I. She is also an Emmy, SAG, Olivier, and two-time Grammy nominated artist who made history as the first to cross over from Broadway to opera with her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2015.
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O’Hara recently completed a critically acclaimed limited Broadway engagement of the new musical Days of Wine and Roses, which also garnered rave reviews during its Off-Broadway run at The Atlantic Theatre Company last summer. She won the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical in addition to receiving Tony and Drama League Nominations for her role. Next spring, she will return to Broadway in the play, Fallen Angels. O’Hara continues to perform with orchestras and symphonies throughout the country.
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Beethoven’s
SYMPHONY NO. 1
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025 / 8:00 PM / ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
FRANÇOIS LÓPEZ-FERRER, conductor
MADISON LEONARD, soprano UTAH SYMPHONY
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Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte...
(If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper...) (7’)
“Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben” from Zaide (7’)
“Ach, ich liebte, war so glücklich” from The Abduction from the Seraglio (5’)
“Al desio, di chi t’adora” (6’)
“Vado, ma dove?” (4’)
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IV. Finale: Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
François López-Ferrer
Conductor
Spanish-American conductor François López-Ferrer has carved an impressive path in the world of classical music, distinguished by his dynamic artistry and compelling performances. Recipient of the prestigious 2024 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, his international career has been marked by recent debuts with esteemed orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil) at the Hollywood Bowl, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Opéra national de Paris, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica Radio Televisión Española, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Ensemble intercontemporain, Opéra de Lausanne, and George Enescu Philharmonic.
Upcoming engagements include debuts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid at the Teatro Real de Madrid in a production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Houston and Utah Symphonies, Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini at the Rossini Opera Festival, Basque National Orchestra, Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, and the Spoleto Festival USA leading Britten’s Turn of the Screw, as well as returns to the Omaha Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, and the Symphony San Jose.
Madison Leonard Soprano
Praised for her “silvery, ethereal-sounding Sophie” by Opera magazine and “lovely vocal delicacy” in The Telegraph, Madison Leonard has previously sung Eurydice in Orfeo ed Eurydice (Dallas Opera) and Adina in L’elisir d’amore (Garsington Opera) as well as Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Los Angeles Master Chorale) in the 2024–25 season.
Her performance of Gilda in Rigoletto with Austin Opera was named one of the Top Ten Joys in Dance and Classical Music by the Austin Chronicle, and she has returned as Leïla in Les pêcheurs des perles and Chrisann Brennan in Bates’ The [R]evolution of Steve Jobs. She has made role debuts with Garsington Opera (Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Giulietta di Kelbar in Un giorno di regno) and Seattle Opera (Gilda in Rigoletto, Chrisann Brennan in The [R]evolution of Steve Jobs, Adina in L’elisir d’amore). She has also sung Gilda in Rigoletto (Dallas Opera); Juliette in Roméo et Juliette (Central City Opera); Marie in La fille du régiment, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance (Utah Opera); Musetta in La bohème (Dallas Opera); Despina in Così fan tutte (Palm Beach Opera); and Morgana in Alcina, and the Rose in The Little Prince (Washington National Opera).
Her concert appearances include engagements with the National Symphony Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s music often sounds familiar, even on the first hearing. Its diatonic harmonies, memorable, often slow-paced, melodies, and heart-beat paced rhythms ground his music in humanism and tradition, even though his techniques are decidedly conceptual and avant-garde. Originally written in 1976, Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte...(If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper...) combines Pärt’s innovative and bracingly modernist tintinnabula style with time-honored musical ideas. The most recognizable parts of Pärt’s tintinnabula (Latin for ‘a ringing bell’) style are two main voices. The first is a slow melody that, in this piece and across all of Pärt’s music, usually proceeds in stepwise motion, up or down by one note at a time. In this piece it often sounds like pieces of a major scale.
himself. The aria’s relatively simple melody masks the aria’s technical demands, itself a metaphor for the hidden trials of true love.
“Alas I loved, so happily” is one of the signature arias from Mozart’s hit 1781 opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. The aria, sung by Constanze, laments her separation from her betrothed Belmonte, who has sworn to rescue her from being abducted by Turkish pirates. Mozart’s decision to name the prima donna character after Constanze Weber— whom he married two weeks after the opera’s premiere— underscored their romance and his promise of constant fidelity to his wife, uncommon in an era where extramarital affairs were an open secret.
The second voice represents the ringing bell itself. Pärt usually creates this effect by writing fast arpeggios up and down, creating an ethereal effect, like the sonic version of watching a spinning top or light glistening on a field of snow. Pärt normally uses fast-repeating arpeggios to create this effect, but in this piece, he uses the notes B flat, A, C, and B natural, which in German are written B-A-C-H. Unsurprisingly, Johann Sebastian Bach himself discovered this sequence of notes and used it in several preludes and fugues. In the three and a half centuries since Bach’s death, many composers have paid their debt to his genius by using the same ‘Bach’ theme in their own music. Here, Pärt turns it into a fast-moving cross between melody, accompaniment, and sound effect—the effect is of a dissonant, and surprisingly convincing, sound of swarming bees.
“Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben”
// Soprano solo, oboe, bassoon and strings //
“Rest gently, my dearest Life” is taken from Mozart’s unfinished opera Zaide. Had Mozart finished and produced the opera, this would surely have been a high point: Zaide, a heroine slave, finds her beloved Gomatz asleep and confesses her love, then leaves a portrait of herself on his pillow. Like any good opera, their love is thwarted, this time by Zaide’s master who is determined to have her for
Mozart wrote “[Come, fly,] to the desire of [the one] who adores you” as an alternative aria to Susanna’s moreused “Deh vieni”, during Act IV of The Marriage of Figaro Susanna, a servant has found herself in an awkward situation in which she is disguised as the Countess and pretends to sing a love song to the Count, while her fiancé Figaro, watches on from behind a bush. Unusual for its conspicuous use of wind instruments, and memorable for its multi-layered antics and hilarious scene, the aria celebrates Susanna’s ability to manipulate her master and mistress, even while convincing them that they are in charge.
Like the previous arias, Mozart wrote “Vado, ma dove?” (“I am going, but where?”) as an insert aria, but this time for a friend: Mozart wrote this aria to appear in an opera by Spanish composer Martín y Soler. Since then, the aria has lived on as a concert piece and as an insertion to many other operas of many other composers—a testament to the flexibility of the operatic form and the prima donna’s privilege to show off. Today, the aria is most often heard as a standalone piece, or as an insertion to Mozart’s own Così fan tutte
Beethoven had fully intended to study with Mozart but never had the chance—Beethoven had travelled to Vienna in 1787 but was called home to care for his siblings after his mother’s death. Beethoven was just 16 years old. By the time he returned to Vienna in 1792, Mozart himself had died and Beethoven began studying with Haydn. He once proclaimed that he had “never learned anything from Haydn,” but his music tells a different story.
Premiered in 1800 in Vienna, Beethoven ensured that his symphony appeared as the closing piece on a concert otherwise full of Haydn and Mozart’s music. Beethoven also wrote the symphony to show off what he knew of Haydn and Mozart—and how he had surpassed them. Whether or not the audience bought his message of greatness, they got a taste for his intentions to revolutionize the symphony into a much larger, more emotionally expressive, musical experience.
Symphony No. 1 stands out from Beethoven’s other eight symphonies for its humor and cheerfulness, even while it foreshadows melodic and harmonic intensity, even brooding, that are most often associated with Beethoven’s musical voice. The first movement is an overt homage to Mozart’s 41st (and last known) symphony, written just a few years earlier: both are written in the key of C major
and begin with a minute-long slow introduction, and they both switch between the trumpet-and-drum optimism of C major, and the more pensive C minor. Beethoven also alludes to Mozart’s symphony in his melodic and harmonic structuring. Listen for a four-note upward flourish, repeated several times, in the violin section, an allusion to a similar element in Mozart’s 41st symphony. More esoterically, Beethoven also borrows an unusual backward circle-offifths harmonic progression in this movement.
The second movement underscores the humorous nature of the classical symphony. Though Beethoven tended to become very serious in the second movements of his piano sonatas, this one has little hint of brooding. Indeed, the second and third movements hide a musical insider’s joke: the second movement is called andante, and built like a minuet—in stately 3/4 time, with highly ordered phrase lengths and harmonic structures. Meanwhile, the third movement, which his listeners would have expected to be a minuet, is actually a scherzo. Scherzo literally means ‘a joke’ and this one is certainly that: though it’s also in 3/4 time, a scherzo is much faster and veers from playful to ominous and back again, all in just a few minutes of music.
The fourth movement is often considered one of Beethoven’s masterpieces of wit. It also proves that, at least at some point in his life, he had a sense of humor. The movement begins, unusually, with a slow introduction in which the violins try to play a full major scale, but fail several times. They finally succeed in reaching the final note just as the tempo speeds up.
THE BEACH BOYS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
ELIAS MILLER , conductor THE BEACH BOYS UTAH SYMPHONY
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The Beach Boys
You can capsulize most pop music acts by reciting how many hits they’ve had and how many millions of albums they’ve sold. But these conventional measurements fall short when you’re assessing the impact of The Beach Boys. This band has birthed a torrent of hit singles and sold albums by the tens of millions. But its greater significance lies in the fact that The Beach Boys’ songs have forever changed the musical landscape, profoundly influencing countless performing artists to follow.
At the helm of The Beach Boys is lead singer and criticallyacclaimed lyricist, Mike Love, a founding member whose leadership has steered the band through decades of musical evolution. Grammy-winning songwriter Bruce
Johnston joined The Beach Boys in 1965, replacing Glenn Campbell, who filled in for Brian Wilson on vocals/bass, when he retired from touring. Highly regarded in his field, Johnston brought with him a wealth of experience from working with icons like Elton John, Pink Floyd, and The Byrds, cementing his place among rock’s elite.
The current lineup, including musical director Brian Eichenberger, Christian Love, Tim Bonhomme, Jon Bolton, Keith Hubacher, Randy Leago, and John Wedemeyer, continues to honor and expand upon the band’s iconic live performance legacy. This dedication is evident in their rigorous touring schedule, with the band performing an average of 150 shows a year across a variety of venues worldwide.
ARTISTS’ PROFILES — THE BEACH BOYS
Elias Miller Conductor
Assistant Conductor of the Columbus Symphony, Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Music Director of the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, Elias Miller has established a reputation as a leading young conductor and orchestra builder. He has worked with numerous orchestras across the United States including the New York Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Albany Symphony. Miller made his Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2023 guest conducting the New York International Symphony Orchestra. Now the orchestra’s principal conductor, he conducted them in another program in February 2025. As the Columbus Symphony’s Assistant Conductor, Miller regularly conducts education, pops, and community concerts with the esteemed orchestra in Columbus, Ohio.
Miller co-founded the Apollo Ensemble of Boston in 2018 and has since conducted the orchestra in over 30 concert cycles, collaborating with world-class soloists and living composers. He is also an active conductor of opera and oratorio.
Michael Edward Love Vocalist
Grammy® Winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member, Michael Edward Love, grew up under the Southern California sun where he soaked up a life of music, surf, sand, and sport. Beginning his singing career as a young boy, Love along with his cousin, Brian Wilson, frequently sang at family get-togethers and holiday gatherings. These early influences served as the inspiration to form the legendary group, The Beach Boys, which originally consisted of Love and his cousins, Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson along with neighbor David Marks and high school friend Alan Jardine.
In the fall of 1961, Love wrote the lyrics and melody to The Beach Boys’ first song, “Surfin’,” in collaboration with cousin Brian Wilson, and subsequently “Surfin’ Safari” and “409,” which led to the signing of the band by Capitol Records. Following the song’s debut, Love and Wilson went on to co-author numerous hits, including eleven Top 10 singles in the first five years of the band. Hit after hit, Love created many of the concepts, and wrote or co-wrote the lyrics and hooks to several of the most performed songs in pop music history including “Good Vibrations,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “Do It Again,” “Kokomo,” “Surfin’ USA,” and the incomparable “California Girls,” which was Bruce Johnston’s debut track as a member of The Beach Boys.
For more than fifty years, Love has been the lead singer and front man of The Beach Boys, taking the sounds of America’s band to every corner of the globe.
The Beach Boys concerts are lovingly dedicated to the memory of Charlie Philbin.
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Music for Paris & Oxford
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2025 / 8:00 PM / ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
TAICHI FUKUMURA, conductor UTAH SYMPHONY
STRAVINSKY
Concerto in E-flat major for Chamber Orchestra, “Dumbarton Oaks” (15’)
I. Tempo giusto
II. Allegretto
III. Con moto
MOZART
Symphony No. 31 in D major, “Paris” (16’)
I. Allegro assai
II. Andantino
III. Allegro
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HAYDN
Symphony No. 92 in G major, “Oxford” (28’)
I. Adagio - Allegro spiritoso
II. Adagio cantabile
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Presto
ARTIST’S PROFILE — MOZART & HAYDN
Taichi Fukumura Conductor
Taichi Fukumura is the Music Director of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the newly-appointed Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra. A rising Japanese-American conductor acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence and musical finesse, Fukumura is the Second Prize Winner of The Mahler Competition 2023 and a four-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award 2021-2024.
Recent and upcoming highlights include guest conducting debuts with the Bamberg Symphony, Utah Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Delaware Symphony, and Colorado Springs Philharmonic. He also returned to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as guest conductor after leading the orchestra in over 110 concerts as Assistant Conductor under Music Director Robert Spano.
Other notable appearances include guest conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their Community Chamber Concert series, leading Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. Fukumura was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic as one of 10 assistant conductor candidates for Kirill Petrenko and the Siemens Conductors Scholarship in 2021.
HISTORY OF THE MUSIC — MOZART & HAYDN
By Ruth Eldredge
Concerto in E-flat major for Chamber Orchestra, “Dumbarton Oaks”
// Flute, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, and strings //
The History
Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat major received its nickname, “Dumbarton Oaks,” in homage to heiress Mildred Barnes Bliss and her husband Robert Bliss. The couple commissioned the concerto in honor of their 30th wedding anniversary. It premiered in May 1938 at Dumbarton Oaks, their estate in Washington, D.C. Stravinsky had planned to conduct the premiere himself, but he fell ill with tuberculosis. From his hospital bed, he entrusted the premiere to famed composer and teacher Nadia Boulanger.
Performed without pauses, the three-movement concerto demonstrates Stravinsky’s so-called ‘neoclassical’ phase, a term that Stravinsky himself used in its broadest possible meanings: many of his neoclassical works took themes from the Classical era of Greek and Roman mythology. Musically, however, Stravinsky took ‘neoclassical’ to mean anything that pre-dated the opaque, even over-wrought, textures of the late nineteenth-century Romantics and Expressionists. Most often, Stravinsky looked to the Baroque and (confusingly-named) Classical eras of Bach and Mozart. He was attracted to the transparent textures, controlled harmonies, and a more dispassionate, less emotionally-charged, approach to musical form and style.
“Dumbarton Oaks” bears out the extent of Stravinsky’s willingness to borrow, steal, and iterate musical ideas. This concerto is indebted to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Stravinsky reported that “I played Bach regularly during the composition of the Concerto, and was greatly attracted to the Brandenburg Concertos.” The first movement in particular borrows the driving rhythms and small-orchestra instrumentation from the Baroque era. It also quotes J.S. Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto in the first four measures of the viola line, even though Stravinsky claimed that he didn’t know if this was deliberate or not.
Stravinsky’s gift for orchestral sound is also apparent: the woodwinds sparkle with bright tones and clear lines, while the strings are characteristically warm and lush, much like they do in Stravinsky’s earlier ballet scores. Each instrument also has a solo section somewhere in
the piece—a testament to Stravinsky’s fascination with instrumental tone and ability to wrangle roundabout musical structures into a tightly-crafted and ultimately timeless piece. One might also hear a hint of Aaron Copland-like harmonies in the first movement—Copland was one of Stravinsky’s many admirers.
1778 was a monumental year for Mozart, though not in ways he likely would have appreciated. Already recognized as a master of his craft, Mozart was nonetheless in need of a ‘grown-up’ job. At 22 years old, he and his sister Nannerl had aged out of the sibling-child-prodigy act that had supported their family in previous decades, but his parents had also determined he was unprepared to travel on his own, and perhaps too hot-headed to seek work by himself. As a result, in May 1778, Mozart travelled to Paris with his mother, Anna Maria, in search of publicity and new commissions.
Unlike his first trip there as a child, this sojourn was an unmitigated disaster and psychological turning point for the young celebrity. The trip ultimately failed to produce a significant commission or position for the young composer, but by the end, this was completely overshadowed by Anna Maria’s unexpected death on July 3, after a brief illness. In shock and not known for his organizational abilities on his best days, Mozart was left alone to make burial arrangements for his mother in a foreign city. Even more, his father Leopold wrote Wolfgang a scathing letter accusing him of matricide, having murdered his mother with his inattention and selfish preoccupation. This—like other myths about Mozart—is certainly an overstatement, but the fact remained that on the day of his mother’s death, Mozart wrote an extended letter to his father about the success of his new symphony and only announced her death to his family in Austria six days later. The young Mozart might be forgiven for fearing to share the news with his father, and Leopold might be forgiven for misunderstanding his son’s grief.
Given this tragic loss, the “Paris” symphony is a bright spot born of an otherwise dark landscape. The symphony itself came about from a public insult that, on its own, nearly derailed his entire endeavor. Mozart had secured a
HISTORY OF THE MUSIC —MOZART & HAYDN
performance of a Sinfonia Concertante (the music of which has not been found) at the prestigious Concert Spirituele series in the center of Paris in late May or early June. However, at the last minute, Parisian composer Giuseppe Cambini convinced the concert producer to cancel Mozart’s piece and insert one of Cambini’s pieces instead.
Mozart’s accusation that Cambini deliberately sabotaged his performance is credible, if not verifiable. Regardless, the producer commissioned Mozart with a new symphony by way of apology and thus the “Paris” symphony was born. The only catch was that it needed to be written, copied by hand, and rehearsed in a matter of days. This was not an unprecedented challenge in light of Mozart’s speedy compositional process, but it was still a logistical feat in itself.
True to its name, the “Paris” symphony was written and premiered in Paris; it also features several nods to Parisian symphonic culture. One such element, the Premier coup d’archet, requires the entire orchestra to play together at the start of a piece. This can be heard in the first few bars, in which all of the instruments play repeated D major chords. (Contrast this with Haydn’s “Oxford” symphony, also originally written for a Parisian audience, that spoofs on this convention by playing similar chords quietly, slowly, and only with the string instruments.)
into ‘eras’ or ‘periods’ to organize our concept of the past. On the one hand, labelling music with names like Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern helps us organize the past: we can identify new musical trends, identify innovative pieces, and come up with a bird’s eye view of musical evolution over time. On the other hand, composers like Haydn, who sit between periods or just don’t fit into the norm, are often overlooked or misunderstood. Haydn has even been labeled as ‘transitional’ because his music has elements of the Baroque and Classical eras, but the implication has often been that his music was simply a means to a greater end.
In reality, Haydn’s 104 symphonies are a treasure chest of musical delight and new ideas. And while it’s true that without Haydn we wouldn’t have Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert, it’s also true that without Haydn we wouldn’t have, well, Haydn. Even Mozart himself thought so: despite a 24-year age gap, the two were close friends, and though Mozart never formally studied with Haydn, he regularly referred to Haydn as his teacher.
Franz Joseph Haydn may well be classical music’s most underrated composer. Born in 1732, Haydn technically belongs to the Classical period (roughly 1750 to 1820), but most music history books nonetheless point to Mozart as the pinnacle of the era, with his memorable melodies, expansion of the symphonic form, and refined sense of orchestral sound.
Historically speaking, Haydn is often a victim of historical periodization—a method scholars use to divide the past
It’s also true that Haydn’s “Oxford” symphony sits comfortably between Baroque style and Classical expectations, even if Haydn’s music was the precedent on which those expectations were built. For example, rather than building on a memorable, even singable melody often associated with Mozart symphonies, each of the “Oxford” symphony’s four movements are based on motives—small melodic building blocks that can be divided, recombined, and even turned upside-down and backwards. Motivic writing means that Haydn could work out an entire symphony based on just one or two small musical ideas— an incredibly efficient use of material.
The practical result of this approach is that you might not leave the concert whistling a memorable Haydn tune; it’s more likely you’ll remember a mood, an expressive gesture, that the music created in the moment of listening. That said: Haydn often repeated himself. In this symphony, listen for three repeated block chords, like knocking on a door, at the very beginning and end of the symphony. Ultimately, Haydn’s music stands on its own merits: if you find yourself smiling at the end, even if you don’t quite know why, then you’ve certainly caught ‘Papa’ Haydn’s message.
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THE MUSIC OF JOURNEY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8,
BRENT HAVENS, conductor
JUAN DEL CASTILLO, vocalist
UTAH SYMPHONY
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Brent Havens Conductor
Berklee-trained arranger/conductor Brent Havens has written music for orchestras, feature films, and virtually every kind of television. His TV work includes movies for networks such as ABC, CBS, and ABC Family Channel Network, commercials, sports music for networks such as ESPN, and even cartoons. Havens has also worked with the Doobie Brothers and the Milwaukee Symphony, arranging and conducting the combined group for Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary Birthday Party Finale attended by over 150,000 fans. He has worked with some of the world’s greatest orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London; the CBSO in Birmingham, England; the Malaysian Philharmonic; the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; the Minnesota Orchestra; the Pittsburgh Symphony; the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; the Houston Symphony; the Atlanta Symphony; the Baltimore Symphony; the Dallas Symphony; the Fort Worth Symphony; the Nashville Symphony; Orchestra of Opera North in Leeds, England; and countless others.
Juan Del Castillo Vocalist
Juan Del Castillo is a singer-songwriter born and raised in San Diego, California. He began making music at a very young age. As a child, Del Castillo sang in choir and performed in plays and musicals. He also acted in television shows and commercials throughout his teens. Del Castillo is a polished, dynamic showman whose passion for performing, natural charisma, and innate ability to completely captivate audiences with his stage presence have led him down a path of artistry and success. A recording artist, formerly on Sony’s BMG US Latin, Del Castillo’s vocal timbre, range, and fierce control have more recently drawn comparisons to former Journey frontman, Steve Perry.
Del Castillo is also the founder and lead vocalist for the internationally touring DSB Band tapped by Ryan Seacrest and Mark Cuban’s AXS TV as “The World’s Greatest Journey Tribute Band.”
Del Castillo is thrilled to share his talents and honored to perform with Windborne and Journey’s catalogue of timeless classics.
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Tchaikovsky’s
1812 OVERTURE
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
JESSICA RIVERO ALTARRIBA, conductor CANNONEERS OF THE WASATCH UTAH SYMPHONY
KORNGOLD PROKOFIEV
Fanfare from the film Kings Row
Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet
I. Montagues and Capulets
II. The Young Girl Juliet
III. Friar Laurence
IV. Dance
V. Romeo with Juliet before Parting
VI. Dance of the Girls with Lillies
VII. Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet
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RACHMANINOFF
GERSHWIN (arr. Robert Russell Bennett)
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2 in E minor
III. Adagio
Porgy and Bess, Selections for Orchestra
1812 Overture
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This performance is dedicated in loving memory to Judith Billings, a trailblazer in law, in the community, and a USUO Trustee
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Jessica Rivero Altarriba
Conductor
Nuanced interpretations, dynamic energy and a charismatic stage presence are hallmarks of Cuban conductor Jessica Rivero Altarriba. Praised for her communicative skills, impactful performances, and equally vested in both established and well-known repertoire and contemporary compositions, Altarriba currently serves as Assistant Conductor for the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera and is a Taki Alsop Fellowship Award Recipient (2024-26). Altarriba is concurrently pursuing her master’s degree in conducting at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
Altarriba programs and leads a diverse set of concerts in the upcoming year. This June and July she is conducting Utah Symphony’s Summer Community Concerts as well as select concerts during the Deer Valley Music Festival including the July 16 Chamber Series “Mozart vs Salieri” and “Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture” concert closing the festival. From July 28 – August 5, she participates in the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles National Festival in California, collaborating with LA Philharmonic Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, YOLA Artistic Director Gaudy Sanchez, and the YOLA National Team in festival programming and conducting a final concert in collaboration with Dudamel.
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The Cannoneers of the Wasatch have traveled the Wasatch Front for more than 50 years blasting self-made cannons while orchestras perform. They formed in 1971 when the University of Utah—Snowbird Summer Arts Institute wanted to perform Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with cannon fire, but lacked cannons. For more than five decades, the Cannoneers have performed in Taylorsville, Layton, Deer Valley, and Sun Valley with more than 18 historical replica cannons, ranging in size from 25 to 1,000 pounds in their arsenal.
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Summit Sotheby’s International Realty~
Anne & Taft Symonds~
Norman C. and Barbara L. Tanner
Charitable Trust
Naoma Tate & the Family of Hal Tate
Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
John & Jean Yablonski~
MAESTRO ($10,000 – 24,999)
Anonymous [2]
Altabank
Dr. J.R. Baringer & Dr. Jeannette J.
Townsend
Jim & Susan Blair~
B.W. Bastian Foundation
Beesley Family Foundation
H. Brent & Bonnie Jean Beesley
Bertin Family Foundation
Berenice J. Bradshaw Trust
Paul Burdiss
R. Harold Burton Foundation
Caffé Molise*
The Capital Group
Howard & Betty Clark
Joseph & Cathy Cleary~
Marian Davis & David Parker~
Pat & Sherry Duncan~
Sarah Ehrlich
Pam & Jonathan Eichner
Matthew B. Ellis Foundation
Finch Family Foundation
Robert & Elisha Finney~
Dr. John Foley & Dr. Dorene Sambado**
Greenberg Traurig
Enbridge Gas~
Douglas & Connie Hayes~
Susan & Tom Hodgson~
Chuck & Kathie Horman
Sunny & Wes Howell~
Mary P.† & Jerald H. Jacobs Family
Stephen C.† and Lynda M. Jacobsen
Annette & Joseph Jarvis
Joseph & Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foundation
G. Frank & Pamela Joklik
KKC Foundation
Duncan & Irene Lee
Bill Ligety & Cyndi Sharp~
Michael & Maureen Mekjian~
Merit Medical Systems, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation*
Millburn & Company
The Millerberg Family Giving Fund
Harold W. & Lois Milner~
James & Ann Neal~
Leslie Peterson & Kevin Higgins
Frank R. Pignanelli & D’Arcy Dixon
Pignanelli
Walter J. & Peggy Plumb
Matthew Prince & Tatiana Lingos-Webb Prince~
Alice & Frank Puleo~ Pura
David & Shari Quinney
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah
James & Anna Romano
The Joseph & Evelyn Rosenblatt
Charitable Fund
Sandefur Schmidt
Dewelynn & J. Ryan† Selberg
Joanne L. Shrontz Family Foundation
Stay Park City~
Stewart Education Foundation
Shane & Stacey Stowell
Mr. & Mrs. G. B. Stringfellow
Thomas & Marilyn Sutton~
University of Utah Health
WCF~
Brad E. & Linda P. Walton~
Dr. & Mrs. Harry C. Wong
Woodbury Corporation
Edward & Marelynn† Zipser
Kathie Zumbro
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce*
University of Utah Health
| UTAH OPERA IS GRATEFUL TO THE FOLLOWING GENEROUS SPONSORS FOR SUPPORTING THE DEER
Bronze ($8,000 - 12,499)
4Girls Foundation
Paula Bronson
Charlotte & Hal Browning
John D. Doppelheuer M.D. & Kirsten A.
Hanson M.D.**
Daniel & Deena Lofgren
Terrell & Leah Nagata
Park City Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau~
Richard & Carmen Rogers
Minky Couture*
Ambassador ($5,000 – 7,999)
Anonymous
Paul & Pam Apel
Suzanne & Clisto Beaty
Maria & Bill Boyce
Michael & Sheila Deputy
Carol & Greg Easton
Jack & Marianne Ferraro
Grandeur Peak Global Advisors
Holland & Hart
Hearth & Hill – Urban Hill – Hill’s
Kitchen*
Michael Huerta & Ann Sowder
Tom & Janet McDougal
Moeller Family Foundation
Michael Montgomery
Ashton Newhall
Promontory Foundation
Albert J. Roberts IV
Shelly Family Foundation
Emily Stewart
Craig & Marcia Stuart
Mark & Debbie Weinstein
Douglas Wood Hotel Park City*
Precision Hermetic Technology
Patron ($3,000 – 4,999)
Tina & John Barry
Sue Barsamian & Bill Romans
Nancy Bartmess
Charles & Jennifer Beckham
Alice & Bill Bierer
Teresa Bolton
Blair Childs & Erin Shaffer
Cindy Corbin
Kim & Rod Cullum
Lawrence Dickerson & Marcela
Donadio
Karey & Phillip Dye
Skip & Barbara Echols
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UTAH SYMPHONY
VALLEY® MUSIC FESTIVAL.
THANK YOU
Judith Fader
Nanci Fastre
Rick & Patti Fersch
Blake & Linda Fisher
Karen Fletcher
Adele & James Forman
Dixie & Joseph F. Furlong III
Annie Lewis & Bob Garda
Kenneth† & Amy Goodman
Mary Haskins
Whitney & John Higgins
Michelle & William Holloway
W. Carl & Lisa Jordan
Howard & Merele Kosowsky
Les Kratter
Stan & Susan Levy
Robert & Shelly Light
Don List
Tom & Jamie Love
John & Kristine Maclay
Steve & Marion Mahas
Keith & Vicki Maio
Miriam Mason & Greg Glynis
Karen & Mike McMenomy
MJZR Charitable Trust
Charles & Amy Newhall
Vincent & Elizabeth Novack
Barbara & Tom O’Byrne
Patrick & Charlotte O’Connell
Arlene & Stephen Pettise
James S. & Dyan Pignatelli
Mitch & Shannon Rice
Sandi & Reynold Rice
Lee Rippel
Kathryn Rommel
Rebecca Roof & Gary Smith
Marlin Sandlin Jr
Nathan & Shannon Savage
Lisa & Joel Shine
Roberta Stanley
Ray & Ann Steben
Marcie & Avy Stein
Tim & Judy Terrell
Judith & Richard Valliere
Grant Lippincott & Donna Walsh
Gerard & Sheila Walsh
Renee & Dale Waters
Stephen Watson
James & Kelly Whitcomb
Cindy Williams
Barry & Fran Wilson
Peter Zutty
VIP for a Night ($1,000 – 2,500)
Julietta Bauman-Schreck
Rebecca Marriott Champion
Dave Clark
George Coleman
Sheila Gardner
Stacy Lederer
Janice K. Story
Jeff Trocin
The Victory Foundation
Bruce Woollen
Robert P. Young
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera expresses deep gratitude to donors who, since the Deer Valley® Music Festival’s founding, have made it a resounding success through extraordinary generosity. We appreciatively acknowledge cumulative giving in support of USUO and the Festival.
$500,000 +
Diane & Hal Brierley
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation
Deer Valley Resort**
Dominion Energy
George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
Marriner S. Eccles Foundation
$250,000 – 499,999
Scott & Kathleen Amann
BMW of Murray/BMW of Pleasant Grove
Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation
Holland & Hart
Kem & Carolyn Gardner
Marty & Jane† Greenberg
LOVE Communications**
The Tony & Renee Marlon Charitable Foundation
O.C. Tanner Company
Perkins-Prothro Foundation / Mark & Dianne Prothro
Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols
Shiebler Family Foundation / Joanne & Bill
Shiebler
Sorenson Legacy Foundation
The Swartz Foundation / James R. & Susan
Swartz
Zions Bank
Thomas Jacobson
Montage Deer Valley**
Jim† & Marilyn Parke
Alice & Frank Puleo
St. Regis Deer Valley**
Stein Eriksen Lodge**
Summit Sotheby’s International Realty
Taft & Anne Symonds
WCF Mutual Insurance Company
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera would like to especially thank our major sources of public funding that help us to fulfill our mission and serve our community.
MEMORIALS & TRIBUTES
Many donors have made gifts to Utah Symphony | Utah Opera in memory or to honor friends and loved ones. Thank you for your generous tributes.
In
Memory Of
Jay T. Ball
Martha Ball
Judy Watts Brady
Drew W. Browning
Joyce & Elden Brown
Steven R. Fisher
Ashby Decker
Barbara A. Bellows-Terranova
Kimberly Cohee
Patricia Jarvis
Olive L. Miller
Frederick W. Milad
Vicki & Robert Bourns
Spencer F. & Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation
Winder & Counsel PC
Burton & Elaine Gordon
A. Scott & Jesselie Anderson
Earle R. Bevins Anonymous
Barbara Hartman
Latrice Henry
Ramon Johnson
Cathy Zavodni
Frank & Maxine McIntyre
Jerilyn McIntyre & David Smith
Ruzena (Rose) Novak
Eva Novak
Glade & Mardean Peterson
Leslie Peterson & Kevin Higgins
Kelvin Peterson
Scott & Kathleen Amann
Rick & Betsy Anderson
Kirsten & Gary Dodge
Lory Hendry & Rob Ayres
Joann & Russell Jex
Richard Morais
Shelley Morandi
Sean Myles
Wallace Ring, M.D.
Dr. Harry Wong
Bill Shiebler
Fickling Family Foundation
Kristen Fletcher & Dan McPhun
Veloria M. Jacobson
Allison Kitching
Frank & Alice Puleo
Deanna L Rodeghier
Anne & Taft Symonds
Allison Weiss
Tom & Laurie Eastwood
Jim & Barbara Gaddis
Peggy & Ben Schapiro
Willard & Evelyn Smith
Jerilyn McIntyre & David Smith
Dave Winder
David & Maun Alston
Anonymous
Janet Topham
Alsco Uniforms
In Honor
Anne & Ashby† Decker
Colleen Merrill
Georgia Gates
DeAnn McCune
Joanne Shiebler
Maria S. & Allen Tuttle
Ed Zipser
Wilma Odell
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is grateful to those donors who have made commitments to our Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund is a vital resource that helps the long-term well-being and stability of USUO, and through its annual earnings, supports our Annual Fund. For further information, please contact us at 801-869-9001.
Anonymous
Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson
Gael Benson
C. Comstock Clayton Foundation
Estate of Alexander Bodi
The Elizabeth Brown Dee Fund for Music in the Schools
Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation
Thomas D. Dee III & Dr. Candace Dee
Hearst Foundation
Estate of John Henkels
Roger & Susan Horn
Carolyn T. Irish Revocable Trust
Estate of Marilyn Lindsay
The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish† and Mr. Frederick Quinn
Loretta M. Kearns†
Vicki McGregor
Edward Moreton
Estate of Pauline C. Pace
The Linda & Don Price Guest Artist Fund
Perkins-Prothro Foundation
Kenneth† & Jerrie Randall
The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund
Bill† & Joanne Shiebler
Steven P. Sondrop Family Trust
James R. & Susan Swartz
Clark L. Tanner Foundation
Norman C. & Barbara L. Tanner Charitable Trust
Norman C. & Barbara L. Tanner Second Charitable Trust
O.C. Tanner Company
Estate of Frederic & Marilyn Wagner
Jack & Mary Lois Wheatley Family Trust
Edward & Marelynn† Zipser
Jim Tozer
Larry Brownstein
Co-Chairs
Scott Amann
Beth Armstrong
Tom Billings
Hal Brierley
Judy Brownstein
Carolyn Enenstein
Craig Enenstein
Lynn Fey
Kristen Fletcher
Tom Jacobson
Chloe Johnson
Michael Liess
Bill Ligety
Renee Marlon
Tony Marlon
Charles McEvoy
Pat McEvoy
Dan McPhun
Hal Milner
Lois Milner
Mark Prothro
Ben Schapiro
Joanne Shiebler
Jim Swartz
Susan Swartz
Zibby Tozer
Howard Wallack
From all of us at USUO, we thank our DVMF Council members for their generous support, insightful guidance, and unwavering dedication.
TANNER & CRESCENDO SOCIETIES
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera offers sincere thanks to our patrons who have included USUO in their financial and estate planning.
TANNER SOCIETY OF UTAH SYMPHONY
Beethoven Circle (gifts valued at more than $100,000)
Anonymous [3]
Doyle Arnold & Anne Glarner
Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson
Dr. J. Richard Baringer
Haven J. Barlow
Dr. Melissa J. Bentley
Mahler Circle
Anonymous [3]
Eva-Maria† Adolphi
Dr. Robert H.† & Marianne Harding
Burgoyne
Richard Clegg
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Coombs
Dorothy Cromer†
Paul (Hap)† & Ann† Green
Marcy & Mark Casp
Shelly Coburn
John & Flora D’Arcy
Raymond & Diana Compton
Anne C. Ewers
Annette W. & Joseph Q. Jarvis
Flemming & Lana Jensen
Robert & Carolee Harmon
Richard G. & Shauna† Horne
Virginia A. Hughes
Turid V. Lipman
Herbert C.† & Wilma Livsey
Miriam Mason & Greg Glynis
Dianne May
Jerry & Marcia McClain
James Read Lether
Daniel & Noemi P. Mattis
Anthony & Carol W. Middleton, Jr.,
M.D.
Robert & Diane Miner
Glenn Prestwich
Kenneth A.† & Jeraldine S. Randall
Jim & Andrea Naccarato
Stephen H. & Mary Nichols
Hal Noyce
Craig S. Ogan
Mr. & Mrs.† Scott Parker
Mr. & Mrs.† Michael A. Pazzi
Richard Q. Perry†
CRESCENDO SOCIETY OF UTAH OPERA
Anonymous
Mr.† & Mrs. William C. Bailey
Judy Brady† & Drew W. Browning
Dr. Robert H.† & Marianne Harding
Burgoyne
Richard Clegg
Shelly Coburn
Dorothy Cromer†
Travis & Jamie Donio
Anne C. Ewers
Joseph & Pat Gartman
Paul† (Hap) & Ann† Green
Annette W. & Joseph Q. Jarvis
Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson
Clark† D. Jones
Turid V. Lipman
Herbert C.† & Wilma Livsey
Richard W. & Frances P. Muir
Marilyn H. Neilson
Carol & Ted Newlin
Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols
Mr.† & Mrs. Alvin Richer
Jeffrey W. Shields
G.B. & B.F. Stringfellow
Dr. Ralph† & Judith Vander Heide
Edward J. & Marelynn† Zipser
The remaining 2/3 comes from generous supporters like you. With ticket sales covering roughly 30% of the cost of our performances, your contribution helps complete the experience. Here’s
ASSOCIATE BOARD
Bringing fresh ideas, cultivating philanthropy, and strengthening connections between USUO and the community.
MEMBERS: Zach Marquez
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Stephen Tracy - Curtis Woodbury
Zachary Scott Roemer
LEAVE A LEGACY MAKE A PLANNED GIFT
Make a lasting impact while meeting your financial goals today. Including Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
in your will is simple, often taxadvantageous, and helps ensure the power of music touches lives for generations to come.
To learn more, please reach out to your financial advisor or contact us at:
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Neighbors who are truly friends, a community where people live life to the fullest. A place where an afternoon stroll on the Golf Park or a day on the mountain can turn into an impromptu dinner party. An unmistakable authenticity in the culture, the members, the staff, the lifestyle.
But still, it's so much more. It's Je ne sais quoi. Inexplicable. Indefinable. Ineffable. All words used to describe something that's difficult to put into words, so... maybe it's time you come see it for yourself.
