SoNA Evoking Folklore 2022-23 Program

Evoking Folklore April 29, 2023

Evoking Folklore Saturday, April 29, 2023 – 7:30PM / Walton Arts Center Paul Haas, Conductor

Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate

Chokfi’

Manuel de Falla

Nights in the Gardens of Spain Angela Cheng, piano Sponsored by Friends of Sara Sharp I. In the Generalife II. A Distant Dance III. In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 3

Aaron Copland

I. Molto moderato II. Allegro molto III. Andante quasi allegretto IV. Molto deliberato

Concert sponsored by the Sharp Family in memory of Sara Sharp.

Friends of Sara Sharp George & Mary Benjamin Joel & Lynn Carver Jack & Grace Cleghorn Jenny Coogan John & Kay DuVal Sandy Edwards Karolyn Farrell David Fedele & Matthew Herren William & Joyce Feldman Patsy & Dan Ferritor Malcolm & Ellen Hayward Morriss & Ann Henry

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Anthony & Susan Hui Karen Kapella Bob & Linda Kelly Tom & Jill King Martha & Malcolm McNair D. Riley Nicholson Judith Ricker & Mark Cory Lynn Rogers & Jerry Jones Bob & Diane Shaw St. Paul’s Friends of Music Joyce Stafford Martha Sutherland

In Memory of Sara Sharp Virginia Ann Coogan Elizabeth Davis Don Deweese David Fedele & Matthew Herren Bill & Joyce Feldman Phyllis Gasser Josh & Margo Hale Vickie S. Hilliard Anthony & Susan Hui Carolyn Johnson Tom & Jill King Robert Ritschel

John Savage & Julie Crawford Nancy Sloan Joyce Stafford & Jack Cole Gene Tweraser Terry Vaughn & Tim Gilster Marianne Woods Don & Sheroll Walker

Evoking Folklore

The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas

Board of Directors Mike Russell, Chair Jack Cleghorn, Vice Chair Kim Hadley, Treasurer Marti Sudduth, Secretary Hannah Breden Monique Carswell Malcolm Hayward, M.D. Drew Hutchison Carl Frazier-Sparks Anthony Sumlin Laura Wilkins Tod Yeslow

Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor

Board of Advisors Ed Clifford Cynthia Coughlin Susan Hui Jill King Tom King, Ph.D. Peter B. Lane Bill Mitchell Dick Trammel Staff D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director Paul Haas, Music Director Ben Harris, General Manager Terry Hicks, SoNA Singers Director Sarah Pearson, Assistant Conductor Natalie Fernandez, Music Education Director Marti and Kelly Sudduth Chair

Devanee Williams, Development Manager Jarrett Bastow, Personnel Manager Richard Bobo, Music Librarian Luke Pearson, Accounting Contact PO Box 1243, Fayetteville, AR 72702 479.521.4166 info@sonamusic.org Connect www.sonamusic.org facebook.com/sonafan twitter.com/SoNAinfo Join our email list Email us at info@sonamusic.org to receive the latest updates.

FIRST VIOLIN Winona Fifield, Concertmaster Maestro’s Circle Chair

Paulo Eskitch, Acting Associate Concertmaster Johann Acuña, Acting Assistant Concertmaster Will Bush Elizabeth Chrisman Yida Hu Sarah Kelly Nicole Paglialonga Austin Rice Jennifer Sherman Allison Steiner Alla Wijnands SECOND VIOLIN Miho Oda Sakon, Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair*

Geronimo Oyenard, Associate Principal Merritt Denton Mary Haley Diane Halliburton Thane Isaac Cristian Martinez Vega Martha Mattes Raul Munguia Karol Rulli VIOLA Jesse Collett, Principal Grace Clark, Acting Associate Principal Lester Lewis Endowed Chair

Mary Kelly Logan Mabry Matthew Pavon Anthony Verge Phillip Wachowski Anne Wenzel

CELLO Kari Caldwell, Principal Starr Foundation Chair

Michael Puryear, Acting Associate Principal Diane Bucchianeri Christian Serrano Torres Pecos Singer BASS Christine Craddock, Acting Principal Marybeth and Rick Hays Chair

HORN Jake Rensink, Acting Principal Josh East David Renfro Katelyn Halbert Joe Falvey, Assistant Horn TRUMPET Richard Rulli, Principal Ed and Carol Clifford Chair

Andrew Stadler Tim Wootton Benjamin Hay

Marc Facci, Acting Associate Principal Benji Wilson Russell Thompson

TROMBONE Cory Mixdorf, Principal Tenor

FLUTE Gabriel Vega, Acting Principal

Doug Fletcher Jason Hausback, Principal Bass

Michael Hollomon and Eric Wailes Chair

Greenwood Gearhart Chair

Ginny Hudson, Acting Associate Principal

TUBA Ryan Robinson, Principal

Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair*

Carley Flowers, piccolo Kelly Hermann, piccolo OBOE Lise Glaser, Acting Principal Robert T. Murphy III and Beau G. Reynolds Chair

Andrew Baker Lauren White, English Horn CLARINET Trevor Stewart, Principal Jasper Hensley Orlando Scalia, bass clarinet Amanda Hudnall, E-flat clarinet BASSOON Richard Bobo, Acting Principal Mark Lauer Josue Avelar, contrabassoon

TIMPANI Stephen Craft, Principal PERCUSSION James Harris, Principal Fernando Valencia Julianne Brown-Meola Chair

Amy Hearting Micheal Barnes Carson Vanduch HARP Devanee Williams, Acting Principal KEYBOARD Tomoko Kashiwagi, Acting Principal Kristine Olefsky

*Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music: Liz Allen, Jenny Coogan, Karolyn Farrell, Phoebe Goodwin, Jill King, Natalie Olsen, Lynn Rogers, Jane Scroggs, Jackie Telfair, Laura Wilkins, and Ann Marie Ziegler www.sonamusic.org

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Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor SoNA Music Director Paul Haas enjoys a distinctive career as conductor, composer and installation artist. His guest conducting engagements have included performances with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony, among others, as well as festival appearances.

Over the last decade, he has written commissions for a wide variety of iconic venues, including the Park Avenue Armory and Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Grace Cathedral in San

Angela Cheng Piano Sponsored by Friends of Sara Sharp

Consistently praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her country’s national treasures. In addition to regular guest appearances with virtually every orchestra in Canada, she has performed with the symphonies of Saint Louis, Houston, Indianapolis, Colorado, Utah, San Diego and Jacksonville, as well as the philharmonic

Sara Elizabeth Savage Sharp May 24, 1939 – October 6, 2021 Sara was born in the little south Arkansas town of Waldo, in Columbia County. Music was one of the pillars of her life. She studied piano under her mother, starting at the age of three and by her early teens was playing the organ in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Hope.

She attended the University of Arkansas – under a National Merit Scholarship – where she received a BA and MA in history and then a performance degree in organ. She was the Music Director, Organist, and Choir Director at St. Theodore’s Episcopal Church in Bella Vista for fifteen years. She donated the grand piano to the Walton Arts Center in her mother’s memory.

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Francisco, the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

In addition to his positions as Music Director of SoNA and the Thunder Bay Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Haas is the founder and Artistic Director of Sympho, a trailblazing concert production company that creates powerful and emotional musical experiences, collaborating with leading artists and using unexpected performance methods and unorthodox venues.

Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School.

He resides in Germantown, New York, with his wife and three children. Find out more at paulhaas.com.

orchestras of Buffalo, Louisiana, Rhode Island, London, Israel and Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Recent performances include a debut with the Fort Worth Symphony, performing Rachmaninoff’s “Variations on a Theme of Paganini,” under the baton of Robert Spano, and a return to the Vancouver Symphony, performing Ravel’s Concerto in G with Otto Tausk.

A native of Hong Kong, Ms. Cheng studied extensively with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University and with Sascha Gorodnitzki at The Juilliard School. She is currently on the artist faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she was honored with the 2011-12 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Sara was the founding Dean of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She was a longtime supporter of the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, serving on the board, including a tenure as Board Chair. When the organization re-branded as SoNA, she continued serving the organization as a member of the Board of Advisors.

In 1960 she married Frank Sharp, and they then moved to a farm on Kessler Mountain where they raised four children and housed many foster children.

During Sara’s sixty years in Northwest Arkansas, she rarely missed a choral, symphonic, or organ performance, as well as making her adopted Ozark hills ring with the sound of her music.

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Chair Sponsorships

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Leave a Legacy

Your planned charitable bequest to SoNA can make a significant impact by helping to ensure that our mission will thrive far into the future. Gifts of all sizes make it possible for us to build financial strength and maintain our tradition of excellence and community outreach for generations to come.

For assistance with bequests, including gifts of stock, please contact Jett Moore with Greenwood Gearhart, Inc. at jtmoore@greenwoodgearhart.com or 479.521.5353.

The Maestro’s Circle

SoNA wishes to thank the donors who have contributed to our Endowment Fund through the Maestro’s Circle. If you would like to learn more about multi-year gifts that help ensure SoNA’s future, please contact D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director, at riley@sonamusic.org or 479.521.4166.

Bob & Becky Alexander

Mary Ann Greenwood (in memoriam)

Mary Lynn Reese

The James Burton Blair Family Foundation

Susan & Orville Hall

Frances Lee Scott (in memoriam)

Bob Bogle (in memoriam)

Malcolm & Ellen Hayward

Diane & Mark Simmons

George & Mary Benjamin

Tom & Jill King

Dewitt & Cindy Smith

Joel & Lynn Carver

Hannah & Greg Lee

Billie Starr

Nick & Carolyn Cole

Jim & Ann McKenzie

Marti & Kelly Sudduth

Cynthia Coughlin

Ellis & Kay Melton

The Walton Family Foundation

Sandra K. Edwards

Robert T. Murphy III and

Pete & Shirley Esch

Beau G. Reynolds

Reed Greenwood

David & Pamela Parks www.sonamusic.org

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Corporate, Foundation & Government Partners

Friends of SoNA Contributions to SoNA’s annual fund and special events enable us to continue to bring great music and innovative music education to life in Northwest Arkansas. Gifts listed below have been received or pledged between September 1, 2021 through March 20, 2023. We make every effort to maintain accurate records. If we have inadvertently omitted your name, please let us know so that we may correct our error. Gifts listed below do not include corporate matches.

Concerto $10,000+ Bob & Becky Alexander George & Mary Benjamin City of Fayetteville Nick & Carolyn Cole Reed & Mary Ann Greenwood Kimberly Hadley Malcolm & Ellen Hayward Dr. Alan & Sherri Lamb Jim & Ann McKenzie Mike & Mary Russell Frank Sharp Mark & Diane Simmons Dewitt H. Smith III & Cynthia B. Smith Marti & Kelly Sudduth

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust

Support for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Season Partners

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Bravissimo $5,000 - $9,999 The James Burton Blair Family Foundation Ed & Carol Clifford Cynthia Coughlin Sandra K. Edwards Orville & Susan Hall Michael Hill Thomas & Jill King Hannah & Greg Lee Ellis & Kay Melton Robert T. Murphy III and Beau G. Reynolds David & Pam Parks Mary Lynn Reese Eric Wailes & Michael Hollomon The Walton Family Foundation Amanda & Chad Ware Bruce & Laura Wilkins Bravo $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous Thad & Melanie Beck Monique Carswell John & Kay DuVal Pete & Shirely Esch Carl & Josh Frazier-Sparks Hershey & Denise Garner Rick Hays & Marybeth Cornwell Anthony & Susan Hui James R. Jinks David & Deborah Malone Doug & Barbara Prichard Todd Simmons Carolyn Smart Joyce Stafford Billie Jo Starr Tod Yeslow & Jackie Telfair

Encore $1,000 - $2,499 Jacquelyn Brandli & Doug Cummins Mark Breden Julianne Brown-Meola Evan & Anita Bukey Jack & Grace Cleghorn Angela Cothren Virginia Ann Coogan Lynda Coon Sid & Kay Davis Don B. Deweese Raymond Etheredge Don & Karolyn Farrell William & Joyce Feldman Nancy Garner & Mort Gitelman Sue & Lyle Gohn Phoebe J. Goodwin Howard & Treva Hamilton Bob & Linda Kelly Jeff & Cheryl Kester Thomas Jacqueline King Bill & Sabra Martin Jay & Judy McDonald Bob & Linda McMath Lindsey & Rita Miller Mike & Kathy Moss Tim & Deborah Ogg Nancy Preis Mark Smidt Sally Stone Anthony & Chantal Sumlin Brad Vester Donald & Sheroll Walker Ann Marie Ziegler Prestissimo $500 - $999 Anonymous Bob Beitle, Jr. Sabrina Bewley Hannah Breden Robert Burns Joel & Lynn Carver Patricia A. Cornish Count & Lisa Darling Tom & Dana Dykman Peter & Tara Elzer James & Betty Ezell David Fedele & Matthew Herren Martha Frits Rachel & Adam Golden Albert Gray Morriss & Ann Henry Bob & Carol Hodges David & Holly Johnson David Jolliffe & Gwynne Gertz

Peter Lane & Barbara Putman Cole Lester Lisa Mahlum Richard & Evelyn Millan Mike Necessary Vivian & Charles Nicholson Robert & Melinda Nickle Kimberly Ringhausen Lynn Rogers & Jerry Jones Ann & Charles Rye William & Judy Schwab Joe & Sue Schultz Eloise Jane Scroggs Winifred Shanor Ken & Celia Shireman Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Smith Robert Welsh Buddy & Mary Whiteaker Pattie & David Williams Presto $250 - $499 Karen Anderson Michael Babb Dale & Vayle Benedict Robert & Vicky Bruce June M. Carter Jonathan Deweese Tommy & Kathy Deweese Adrienne Elrod Helena Gadison Craig & Alissa Gardenswartz Bob & Kathy Harriell Bruce Harris Rebecca Harrison Peter & Margo Heinzelmann Walt & Sudie Henderson James & Mary Hurley Eric Jackson Joan & Bruce Johnson Tom & Karen Kapella Elaine & David Longer Sandra Luetjen Jacob & Ashley McElroy William McGowan & Kelly Carithers Dennis McKinnie Bill & Deeg Mitchell Brandy & Dwight Mitchell Elizabeth & Jim Mitchell Lee & Lynn Moore Andrea Newby Jeffrey O’Dea Regina Peck Ines Pinto & David McNabb Danielle Pribbernow Hoyt & Mary Purvis Martin & Cookie Redfern Rick & Janet Roessler Kathryn Rubenstein David Russell John Savage Dr. & Mrs. James Scherer Taylor Smith Don & Kathryn Stroessner O.H. & Mary Storey Rebecca Summerlin Clayton Thompson

Dick & Nancy Trammel Deanna Williams Allegro $100 - $249 C.L. Abercrombie Carole & John Ball L.E. & Patricia Beland Jerome Biebesheimer Kathryn Birkhead Blackbaud Giving Fund Aaron Bleidt & John Clayborn Michael Todd Bradley John Van & Rosemary Brahana Lori Bremer Thomas & Roxanna Cole Mary Jane Comstock Robert Costrell Stan D’Aubin Marsha R. Daniel Elizabeth Davis Ted & Dianne Dreher Alan Ellstrand & Karen Byers Tommy & Rebecca Free Joel Freund & Carla Crawley Susan & Michael Gray Josh & Margo Hale Vickie Hilliard Corey Huffty Barbara Jackson Carolyn Johnson Ann Kabanuck Christopher Keys John E. & Sally Kelley King Peter & Judy Kohler Christopher Lavagnino Michael & Eileen Lieber Molly Longstreth Cathy & Stephen Marak Nancy Mays John & Ann Marie McAuley Bill & Kim McComas Kimberly McGee James & Jeanette Millar Robert Neece Tom O’Neal Jeanne & Gary Olson J.P. Peters Kimberly Peters John & Francis Rankin Martin & Cookie Redfern Jason Reinhard Robert Ritschel Deborah Sabo Doris Schuldt Mary Alice Sarafini Barbara Sieger Paul & Janice Smith Irene & Joel Spalter Ken & Donna Stout Donald Thames Joe & Jennifer Thompson Mark Tocco & Colleen McCarthy Terry Vaughan & Tim Gilster Margaret Whillock Rhoda Wright Theresa Dawn Yarbrough

Debut $20 - $99 Tom & Linda Bacon Elizabeth Bainbridge Bill & Teresa Bodie Lynne Brown Jennifer Buie Michael Bunten Judith Carey Allen Carney & Susan Mayes Harriet Catoe Drew & Nancy Collom Barb & Kathy Daniel Toni Galbreath Susan Garriss Phyllis Gasser Lee & Jane Gordon Mark Grimm Mr. & Mrs. John Guerber Ms. Chris Harris Karen Harris Jessica Henao Owen Johnson Ramona Jones Phillio Keys Bill & Missy Darwin Kincaid John & Harriet Mack Donald Mesecher Diane & Brett Morrison William & Jennifer Murry Andy & Joan Noble Kathryn Osmola Rosemary & Stephen Petruconis James Sawyer & Mary Charlton Nancy Sloan Janice Stanesic Kurt & Gene Tweraser Abigail Underwood Marianne Woods Kaitlyn Wyre

Bill & Teresa Bodie Bob & Kathy Daniel Christopher Keys Phillip Keys Kimberly Peters In Honor of Dr. & Mrs. Lindsey Miller Irene & Joe Spalter Matching Gifts

In-Kind Support 28 Springs Atlas The Restaurant Ben Harris DOXA / VANTAGE Duckhorn Portfolio Wine Eventures Garrison Financial Corporation Heroncrest Event Center The Kester Group Jana Mayfield Jill King Malcolm & Ellen Hayward Mark & Diane Simmons Mary & George Benjamin Marti & Kelly Sudduth Mint 2 Mix Prism Aesthetics Rejuvenated Med-Spa Romance Diamond Co. Sassafras Springs Vineyard & Winery

In Honor of Sandy Edwards Margaret Whillock In Honor of Marti & Kelly Sudduth Debbie & Tim Ogg In Memory of Rosemary Brahana Tom & Jill King In Memory of Carole Ann Falkner Kitty & Bill Rubenstein In Memory of Eugene “Kayo” Harris Buddy & Mary Whiteaker In Memory of Winifred Shanor Carol Bobek Allan & Sandra Dye Jo Ann C. Skillett In Memory of Jacquelyn Kay Linebarger www.sonamusic.org

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