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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 5
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011Lukas Geniusas, pianoDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinDiane Phoenix-Neal, violaBeth Vanderborgh, cello
NOVEMBER 11, 2011Ray Chen, violinDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinInara Zandmane, pianoScott Rawls, viola
JANUARY 22, 2012Sergey Antonov, celloInara Zandmane, pianoDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinJanet Orenstein, violinSimon Ertz, viola
FEBRUARY 24, 2012Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin and conductorScott Rawls, violaJennifer Alexandra Johnston, cello John Spuller, double bassAshley Barret, oboeAnna Lampidis, oboeKelly Burke, clarinetEdwin Riley, clarinetCarol Bernstorf, bassoonMichael Burns, bassoonBob Campbell, hornLynn Beck, horn Tim Papenbrock, horn
MAY 4, 2012Debra Pivetta, fl uteDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinJohn Fadial, violinScott Rawls, violaNoah Hock, violaBrooks Whitehouse, cello Alexander Ezerman, celloAndre Lash, harpsichord
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MASTERWORKS CHAMBERM C
SEPTEMBER 22 & 24, 2011 Lukas Geniusas, piano
NOVEMBER 10 & 12, 2011 Ray Chen, violin
JANUARY 19 & 21, 2012 Sergey Antonov, cello
FEBRUARY 23 & 25, 2012Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
MAY 3 & 5, 2012Richard Ollarsaba, bass-baritone
OCTOBER 22, 2011Sweet Baby James,The Music of James Taylor
DECEMBER 31, 2011Andrew Lloyd Webber & FriendsFeaturing Debbie Gravitte, Anne Runolfsson and Sal Viviano
FEBRUARY 14, 2012Let’s Fall in Love!Featuring John Pagano
APRIL 21, 2012The Magical Musicof Walt Disney
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SEASON SPONSORS
GSO RESOURCES, PROGRAMS, AND CONTRIBUTORS
Board of Directors 11
Chairman of the Board 11
President & CEO 13
Music Director 15
Resident Conductor 21
Concertmaster 23
Orchestra Personnel 25
Corporate Contributors 50
Contributors 51
Endowment Fund 54
GSO Guild 56
Preludes 59
Wells Fargo Music at Midday Series 59
Youth Orchestra 59
Restaurant Specials 82
Advertiser Index 87
ARTISTIC STAFF
Dmitry Sitkovetsky............................... Music Director
Nathaniel Beversluis ............................ Resident Conductor/
Music Director of GYSO
Karen Collins ........................................... Youth Philharmonic Conductor
Stephanie Ezerman ............................... Opus One Conductor
Linda Cykert ............................................ Flute Ensemble Conductor
FULL TIME STAFF
Lisa Crawford .......................................... President & CEO
Sheila Cauthen ....................................... Director of Marketing & Sales
Connie Parrish ........................................ Box Offi ce Manager/Grant Associate
Peter Zlotnick ......................................... Education Manager
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PRODUCTION STAFF
Charles Adams ....................................... Controller
Vito Ciccone ............................................ Production Manager
Wendy Rawls .......................................... Orchestra Personnel Manager
Cynthia Small .......................................... Administrative Assistant
John Spuller ............................................ Orchestra Librarian
Nancy J. R. Wells ................................... Development &
Marketing Assistant
AFFILIATES
Media Production Associates .......... Recording Company
Progress Printing ................................. Playbill Printing
UNCG ......................................................... Chamber Series
WFDD ........................................................ Radio Broadcasts
TICKETS: To purchase tickets in advance, call the Greensboro Symphony
Box Offi ce, 336.335.5456, Ext. 224 (all major credit cards accepted),
10:00 – 4:30, Monday – Friday, or visit the Greensboro Coliseum Box Offi ce,
1921 West Lee Street or www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available
45 minutes prior to the performance at the concert venue.
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ABOUT THE COVER: The cover of the program for this season features
candid pictures of Greensboro Symphony Orchestra members before and
during concerts in spring 2011. David Nelson, who also writes the program
notes, took the photographs.
Turn to page 85 for a list of the Orchestra members shown on the front
cover.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: The layout and design of the cover was made by
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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 11
Dear Symphony Supporter,The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
again has some great music scheduled for this season. The Masterworks, POPS and Chamber concerts provide a varied showcase for our incredibly talented musicians. If you are a season ticket holder for one of our concert series, I encourage you to invite others to attend our concerts so they can have the opportunity to enjoy live music performed by this world class group of musicians under the leadership of Maestro Sitkovetsky.
The Orchestra continues to bring music into our schools in the form of the elementary school concerts. This eff ort provides much needed classical music
education to the children of Guilford County and surrounding communities. For those students who become inspired and catch the “classical fever”, our very successful Youth Orchestra program is available for them to join.
The GSO is fortunate to have the fi nancial support of our patrons and many of the corporations in our community. You responded last year to our “Dima Challenge” that raised over $50,000 to support our programs. I want to thank all of you who have made a tax deductible contribution to our annual campaign this year and if you have not yet given, please consider doing so.
The GSO and its Board could not provide the programs we do without the support of the Greensboro Symphony Guild. This vital organization has helped raise funds and provide support for the Symphony for many years. This year they have several fund-raisers planned including the “House Tour” and “Super Sale”. I ask you to join me in attending these events and supporting the Guild.
Most of all, THANK YOU for attending the concert and supporting your Greensboro Symphony Orchestra.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Harris, Jr.Board Chair
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Robert Harris
Chairman-Elect Susan SchwartzPast Chair & Vice Chair Management Committee Dennis Stearns
Vice Chair-Development Robert GreenVice Chair-Legal Robert Klepfer
Vice Chair-Artistic Advisory Sam LeBauerVice Chair-Marketing Myrna Carlock
Chair of GSO Endowment Fund Trustees Ann KroupaSecretary Joretta KlepferTreasurer Philippe Dorier
Asst. Treasurer Jessica B. GoodGuild President Kim Littrell
Guild President-Elect Libby Gabriel**President & CEO Lisa Crawford
**Music Director Dmitry Sitkovetsky
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Miles H. Wolff 1975-76
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Robert Braswell 2006-08
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Endowment Chairman Emeritus Caroline Lee*** Orchestra Representative ** Ex-Offi cio * Guild Appointment
PAST PRESIDENTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORSMargaret Arbuckle
Elaine Ashley
Jason Bodford
Myrna Carlock
Vanessa Carroll
Jeff Chowning
Amy Conley
Darren Cossaart
Lisa Crawford**
Bert Davis, Jr.
Philippe Dorier
Scott Duggan
Eric Eley
Bill Fraser
Libby Gabriel*
Jessica Good
Robert Green
Peggy Hamilton*
Robert Harris
Debbie Heidfeld*
Shawn Houck
Joe Hughes
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Anne Smith
Dennis Stearns
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Steven Thaggard
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Robert Harris, Jr.CHAIRMAN
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Dear GSO Friends,
Welcome to the 2011-2012 Season of Winners featuring
young emerging artists who have won major international
competitions. Our soloists include Lukas Geniusas, winner of
the Chopin Competition in Warsaw and 1st prize winner in the
Utah Competition; violinist Ray Chen, 1st prize winner of the
Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels and the Yehudi Menuhin
Competition; Sergei Antonov, 1st prize winner of the Tchaikovsky
International Competition; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, 1st prize winner
in the Kreisler Competition in Vienna; and Richard Ollarsaba, 1st
prize winner from the UNCG Charles Lynam Competition. Our
POPS Series will feature music from award winning composers and
programs; James Taylor, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Burt Bacharach,
and Disney fi lms.
These artists are more than just winners of a competition or
an award. They are winners in many ways outside of their talent
and persistence. They took their dreams seriously and never gave
up. Winners have attitude and make big things happen a little at a
time. Winners say “yes” to freedom and change. Winners go with
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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 15
Dmitry SitkovetskyMUSIC DIRECTOR
1920’sHenry Fuchs
1939H. Hugh Altvater
1951George Dickieson
1963Thomas Cousins
1967Sheldon Morgenstern
1975Peter Paul Fuchs
1987Paul Anthony McRae
1996Stuart Malina
2003Dmitry Sitkovetsky
GSO MAESTRO TIMELINE
DMITRY SITKOVETSKY IS AN ARTIST WHOSE CREATIVITY DEFIES CATEGORISING. He has built up an active and successful
career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician & festival
director. Sitkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a number of the
world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA
Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw
Orchestra, all of the major London orchestras, NHK, Chicago,
Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number
of high-profi le festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier,
Istanbul, Newport, Festival del Sole (Napa Valley) and the IMG Tuscan
Sun Festival. In 2003, he was appointed Music Director of the
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, a position he currently holds with
great success.
In the 11/12 season, Sitkovetsky continues to work extensively
throughout Europe and the USA with engagement highlights including
concerto performances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra (Jansons/
Britten), conducting the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and working with the
Festival Strings Lucerne, Aarhus Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony
Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Orchestra of the Opera North, Portland
Symphony, Napa Valley Symphony, Orchestra di Padova e Veneto and
the Vaasa City Orchestra as part of the Korsholm Music Festival 30th
anniversary. He is coordinating some exciting chamber music projects
with King’s Place and the Lincoln Center over the next few seasons.
Recent engagement highlights included conducting the Tokyo
Metropolitan Symphony, China Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony,
London Philharmonic Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony’s
prestigious New Year’s Eve concert; concerto engagements included
the Seattle Symphony (Inkinen/Britten) and the Royal Danish Opera
Orchestra (Boder/Berg). Play/directing engagements included the
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra,
Minnesota Orchestra, Beethoven Orchestra
Bonn, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Geidai
Philharmonic, Württemberg Chamber
Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of New
Russia and the San Antonio Symphony.
Sitkovetsky has built a fl ourishing career
as a conductor. From 1996–2001, he was
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of
the Ulster Orchestra and then appointed
Conductor Laureate, and from 2002–2005
held the position of Principal Guest
Conductor of the Russian State Orchestra.
From 2006–2009, he was the Artist-in-
Residence at the Orquesta Sinfonica de
Castilla y Leon (Spain) a position that
involved conducting, solo playing, touring,
chamber music and masterclasses. As a
guest conductor, he has worked with leading
orchestras including the London & Royal
Philharmonic Orchestras, Academy of St
Martin in the Fields, BBC, San Francisco, St.
Louis, Seattle and Dallas Symphony
Orchestras, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris,
Santa Cecilia and the St Petersburg
Philharmonic.
Sitkovetsky is the founding director of the
New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES CO) established in
1990 which is comprised of distinguished string players from Eastern &
Western Europe. Since his successful transcription of Bach’s Goldberg
Variations for string trio and string orchestra, he has transcribed more
than 40 works mostly for string orchestra by Haydn, Beethoven,
Brahms, Dohnanyi, Bartók, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and
Schnittke. He has been a member of ASCAP since 1985 and his
transcriptions are published by Doblinger, Sikorski and Schirmer.
Sitkovetsky was the Artistic Director of a number of festivals including
the Korsholm Music Festival in Finland (1983-1993 and 2002), Seattle
International Music Festival (1992-1997), The Silk Route of Music
Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan (1999) and has worked with a diverse range
of artists such as Argerich, Ashkenazy, Bashmet, Davidovich, Harrell,
Kissin, Maisky, Ohlsson, Penderecki, Repin, Schnittke and Shchedrin. In
May 2007, Sitkovetsky was the Artist-in-Residence at the Bodensee
Festival in Germany where he performed a wide variety of activities:
soloist, conductor, chamber musician, recitalist, masterclasses and
conducted the NES Chamber Orchestra in residence.
He has an active and varied recording career with an extensive
discography which includes all the major violin concerti, numerous
chamber music works as well as orchestral recordings that he’s
conducted. In 2010, Hänssler Classic released a boxed set of the
complete Mozart Violin Sonatas with Antonio Pappano and Konstantin
Lifschitz. The same label, recently released Sitkovetsky’s string
orchestra transcriptions of works by Shostakovich and Stravinsky with
the NES CO, as well as Piano Trios of Rodion Shchedrin and Peteris
Vasks. On the Concertgebouw Live label, there was a release of
Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des Songes with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and
Mariss Jansons.
Sitkovetsky shows a keen interest in performing contemporary
repertoire - he premiered the violin concerti written for him by John
Casken (1995) and Krzystof Meyer (2000) and often performs works
by Dutilleux, Penderecki, Schnittke, Pärt and Shchedrin, who has written
several works for Sitkovetsky both as violinist and conductor. In 2005,
he performed two major works by John Corigliano - his Second
Symphony and the Red Violin Suite in a play/conduct concert.
Sitkovetsky’s latest premiere was The Gifts of the Magi written by Jakov
Jakoulov after O’Henry’s famous story and narrated by Peter Coyote
with the Greensboro Symphony. He also played a unique solo recital of
contemporary music at the Verbier Festival in 2009 with a programme
by Schedrin, Vasks, Auerbach and Ali-Zadeh.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, he grew up in Moscow studying at the
Moscow Conservatory and after his emigration in 1977, at the Juilliard
School in New York. Since 1987 he has resided in London with his wife,
Susan, and their daughter, Julia.
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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 21
A native of Indianapolis, Nathaniel Beversluis began writing music and
playing piano and violin at a young age. He refused to practice Hanon
exercises, hymns, or anything by Edward MacDowell. Confounding
one piano teacher after another, he began learning music by reading
and playing from scores, listening to records, composing, and staying
hours after school to extract wisdom from his school orchestra
conductor. Even an abysmal academic record and numerous adamant
admissions offi cers failed to prevent him from attending music
school. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Indiana University
School of Music and Masters of Music in Orchestral Conducting
from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
He studied conducting with Mark Gibson, Xian Zhang and Roger
Grodsky while serving as Associate Conductor for CCM Musical
Theater. He has worked for the Opera Theater and Music Festival of
Lucca (Lucca, Italy), University of Central Florida Conservatory Theatre
(Orlando and Daytona Beach, FL), Seaside Music Theater(Daytona
Beach, FL), and Tri-Cities Opera (Binghamton, NY).
He studied piano with Phil DeGreg, Lynne Arriale, Mike Lucas
and Luke Gillespie. As a composer, he studied with Michael Schelle
and Eugene O’Brien and was twice a composition fellow at the Henry
Mancini Institute. His compositions have won awards from ASCAP
(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.). His interests as a composer involve
combining the traditions and approaches of classical with jazz
musicians.
Nathaniel BeversluisRESIDENT CONDUCTOR,
MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE GREENSBORO SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
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Greensboro Symphony concertmaster John Fadial has been featured in the great
standard concertmaster solos including Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade; Mahler’s
3rd and 4th Symphonies; Richard Strauss’ epic tone poems Till Eulenspiegel, Also
Spracht Zarathustra, and Ein Heldenleben, as well as the Brahms Violin Concerto.
He also has served as soloist and associate concertmaster with the Eastern
Music Festival and the Colorado Music Festival. He has garnered critical acclaim
for performances around the globe (“Wow!” The Washington Post, “sparkling
technique” L’Est Republicain, Nancy, France) maintaining a vigorous schedule as
soloist, concertmaster, chamber music performer, and recording artist.
Fadial has performed on four continents as a United States Information Service
Artistic Ambassador and has appeared at such notable venues as the Smithsonian
Museum, the Philips Collection, and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center,
with numerous engagements at such summer festivals as Aspen, Banff (Canada),
Brevard, Eastern, Heidelberg (Germany), Mirecourt (France), Costa Rica, João Passoa
and Salvador (Brazil). He has shared the stage in chamber music collaborations with
pianist Jon Nakamatsu, harpsichordist Anthony Newman, cellists Tillman Wick and
Paul Katz, violist John Graham, and bandoneon virtuoso David Alsina of the New York
Tango Trio, among others, and has performed widely in the U.S. and Europe since
1997 as violinist of the critically acclaimed Chesapeake Piano Trio.
Recent seasons have featured concerts throughout the U.S., Brazil and
France. Highlights included: performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra; the Four Seasons of Vivaldi under the baton of
Gerard Schwarz; the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William
Bolcom’s Suite for Violin and Cello, performed in the historic Salle Poirel in Nancy
(site of the world premier of the Poeme of Ernest Chausson, by the great Belgian
virtuoso Eugene Ysaye); and chamber music performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky,
Konstantin Lifschitz, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich and the Quatuor Stanislas.
In October of 2005 he gave the world premier of Arthur Gottschalk’s Concerto
for Violin and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, as part of the Society of Composers
International Conference for contemporary music, and will appear in the 2011-2012
season as guest artist with the University of Wyoming Symphony orchestra, in a
tour of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, performing the Violin Concerto of LA based
composer, Lee Actor. Fadial’s recording of the Complete String Sextets of Johannes
Brahms with the Stanislas Sextet was released in Europe in the Spring of 2010 with
joint cooperation from the city of Nancy, France and Radio France. His disc, of the
chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for the Centaur label, was deemed “not
to be missed” by American Record Guide. Fadial has recently completed a recorded
set of the Complete Sonatas of Johannes Brahms, with English pianist Andrew Harley,
to be released later this year. His performance on the disc Where Does Love Go?:
Chamber Music of Mark Engebretson on the Innova label was a Grammy™ Semi-
fi nalist for best chamber music recording for 2007. Both Coleridge-Taylor and
Engebretson discs are available on iTunes.
John Fadial has established a national reputation as teacher; and
his students have been winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony and
Wyoming Symphony Young Artist Solo Competitions and the
Eastern Music Festival Concerto Competition, and include
collegiate fi nalists and junior prizewinners in the Music
Teachers National Association National Competitions and the
ASTA competitions. They have received scholarships for study
at institutions including the Eastman School, Indiana University,
Oberlin, the Peabody Institute, and the Juilliard School. They
have performed as members of the National Repertory Orchestra
and the Broadway touring company of show Fiddler on the Roof, as
concertmaster. Dr. Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina
School of the Arts (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM)
and the University of Maryland (DMA) and teaches a large
studio of both undergraduate and graduate violin majors at the
University of Wyoming in Laramie.
Fadial’s teachers have included Elaine Richey,
Charles Castleman, Zoltan Szekely and Arnold
Steinhardt. His mentors also include Alexander
Schneider, Joseph Silverstein, Jan DeGaetani and
members of the Cleveland, Juilliard and Guarneri
quartets.
John FadialCONCERTMASTER
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 25
Violin IJOHN FADIAL, CONCERTMASTERGreensboro Symphony Guild Chair
FABRICE DHARAMRAJ,ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTERChair in Honor of Caroline Lee
FABIAN LOPEZ,ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
WENDY RAWLS,ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
KAREN COLLINSRachel Smothers Hull and Worth Brantley Hull Chair
EWA DHARAMRAJMary Ellen and Elizabeth Anne Kavanagh Chair by Ellen C. and B. John Kavanagh
ANDREW EMMETTGeorge W. Dickieson Chair GSO Conductor 1951-1963by Anna Dickieson
STEPHANIE EZERMANLynn Carroll Haley Chair by Michael W. Haley
RUTH METHENYMarie C. and Ed Faulkner Chair by Marie C. and Ed Faulkner
JULIANNE ODAHOWSKISally London Hobbs Memorial Chair by Johnnye and J.T. Hunter
JANET ORENSTEINDorothy G. Frank Chair by Stanley M. Frank
RAMILYA SIEGELJames Autha Freeze Memorial Chair by J. Thurman and Peg Freeze
NICOLAE SOAREJanie C. and E. Kemp Reece Chair
JEAN VON BERG SYKESDavid Vincent Sherman Chair by Ann, Beth and Becky Sherman
MONIKA WILMOTLucy and Clark Dixon Memorial Chair by Jack C. Dixon
Violin IIFABRICE DHARAMRAJ, PRINCIPALSTEVEN B. HARPER, ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
ALISON LAWSON, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
CATHERINE BURTONAlice Mae and William M. Lineberry Memorial Chair by Helen and Albert S. Lineberry, Sr.
COLLEEN CHENAILLynn R. Prickett Memorial Chair by the Lynn R. and Karl E. Prickett Fund
KAY HENSLEYSidney J. Stern, Jr. Memorial Chair by Katherine G. Stern
BETTY KELLEYEllen and Gary Taft Chair
*GREGORIO MIDEROThe Jimmie Irene Johnson Memorial Chair by Dr. Harry W. Johnson and Family
DAVID MULLIKIN+NONOKO OKADA
ViolaSCOTT RAWLS, PRINCIPALKathleen Price Bryan Memorial Chair by
Kathleen Bryan Edwards and Family
MAUREEN MICHELS,ASSISTANT PRINCIPALGarson L. Rice, Jr. Chair by
Catherine G. Rice and Children
ANNE P. DIPIAZZABetty F. and Robert P. Williams Chair
SIMON ERTZThe Michael and Anna Lodico Chair
by Flo and Bill Snider
NOAH HOCKCAROLINE JONES*ERIC KOONTZDIANE PHOENIX-NEALCAMILLE PRESCOTT-ARCHEREMILE SIMONEL
CelloBETH VANDERBORGH, PRINCIPALBROOKS WHITEHOUSE, CO- PRINCIPAL*PHILIP VON MALTZAHN, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALKay Bryan Edwards Chair
by Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
BRENDA FINCHERJoan T. and William L. Hemphill Chair
JENNIFER ALEXANDRA JOHNSTONJoy C. Morrison Chair
by William H. Morrison, Jr.
MELODEE KARABINThe Brough-Webber Chair
by Elizabeth Brough Webber
and William R. Webber
GINA PEZZOLIGreensboro Opera Company Chair
by Peggy and Phil Johnson
MARCIA RILEYThe Kroupa Family Chair by
Bob and Ann Kroupa
ANNE SELLITTIPreston Wylie Keith and Martha
Elizabeth Allred Keith Chair by
Dr. Preston Keith and Marty Keith
WORTH WILLIAMSDr. William R. and
Beverley C. Rogers Chair
BassJOHN P. SPULLER, PRINCIPALEMILY RUPP, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALCarolyn J. Maness Chair
by John R. Maness
MARA BARKERC. Scott Lee Chair by
Caroline M. and N. Clayton Lee
VIRGINIA MASIUSRichard W. and Carlotta M.
Treleaven Memorial Chair by
Carl W. and Lina Z. Treleaven
JAN MIXTERBU SCHERF
FluteDEBRA REUTER-PIVETTA, PRINCIPALLINDA CYKERT, FLUTE II/PICCOLOLinda B. and Maurice Jennings Chair
CARLA COPELAND-BURNS, PICCOLO/FLUTE IIIRichard Kelly Bowles, Jr. Memorial Chair
by Louise H. and R. Kelly Bowles Family
Foundation
OboeMARY ASHLEY BARRET, PRINCIPALFraser Family Chair by
Susan and Bill Fraser
ANNA LAMPIDIS, OBOE IIMr. Lenoir Chambers Memorial Chair
by Mr. Lenoir Chambers Wright
ALICIA CHAPMAN, ENGLISH HORN/OBOE IIIBarbara B. and Robert E. Lavietes Chair
ClarinetKELLY BURKE, PRINCIPALEDWIN RILEY, CLARINET IIElaine Wolf Cone Memorial Chair
by Barbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr.
SHAWN COPELAND, BASS CLARINETRoyce O. Reynolds Chair
by Jane W. Reynolds
BassoonCAROL L. BERNSTORF, PRINCIPALTBA, BASSOON IIWalter W. King, Jr. Memorial Chair
by Elizabeth Yates King
AMBER FERENZ, CONTRA/BASSOON IIIJoyce C. Kiser Memorial Chair
by Mose Kiser, Jr. and Family
HornROBERT CAMPBELL, PRINCIPALLYNN BECK, HORN IICarole Swope Monroe Chair
by Edwin Brent Monroe
TIMOTHY PAPENBROCK, HORN IIIEthel Clay Price Memorial Chair
by Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund
DAVID DOYLE, HORN IVRichard and Danahy Family Chair by Mary C.
Richard Danahy and Patrick Danahy
TrumpetANITA CIRBA, PRINCIPALPeter B. Bush Memorial Chair by
Mary Ann Bush and Children
KEN WILMOT, TRUMPET IIBarbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr. Chair by
Donna M. and Herman Cone III
KARL J. KASSNER, TRUMPET IIIThe Austin Family Chair by
Patricia Austin Sevier
TromboneJOHN R. MELTON, PRINCIPALDAVE WULFECK, TROMBONE IIFrederick Kent Wilkins Memorial Chair
by Kaye Andrews Wilkins and Children
ERIK J. SALZWEDEL, BASS TROMBONEAlice Wilson Pearce Chair
by Woody Pearce
TubaBRAD PINO, PRINCIPAL
TimpaniPETER ZLOTNICK, PRINCIPAL
PercussionWILEY ARNOLD SYKES III, PRINCIPALBEVERLY NAIDITCH, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALJeanne Maxwell Hassell Chair
by Charles M. Hassell
DRUMS, WILEY ARNOLD SYKES IIIR. Bradford Lloyd Chair by
Mary Ruth and Robert B. Lloyd, Jr.
XYLOPHONE, JOHN R. BECKHughlene Bostian Frank and
William Allen Frank Chair
MIKE AUSTINJohn E. and Martha S. Chandler Chair
MICHAEL LASLEYThomas E. and Elaine R. Wright Chair
COLLIN TRIBBYLillian Daley Brown Memorial Chair
by the Massey Trust through Nancy C.
and Alex S. Brown, Jr.
HarpHELEN RIFAS, PRINCIPALEleanor Downes Mewborn Chair
In Memory of Carolyn Riddle Downes
Piano/CelestaNANCY JOHNSTON, PRINCIPALIrene Mitchell Moore and Beverly
Cooper Moore Chair
MUSIC LIBRARIAN JOHN P. SPULLER
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ORCHESTRA PERSONNELMANAGER WENDY RAWLS
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Amphion PercussionPeter Zlotnick and Sean ConnorsAmphion Percussion has earned a reputation for unique programming and engaging performances as they zig-zag their way across the United States to promote new ways of creating music with percussion. Its continually expanding and varied repertoire includes everything from the frenetic works of György Ligeti and virtuosic original compositions to the recognizable tunes of Radiohead and trancelike music of Steve Reich.
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EastWind EnsembleMary Ashley Barret, oboe; Anthony Taylor, clarinet; Steven Stusek, saxophone; Kelly Burke, bass clarinet; Michael Burns, bassoonA resident faculty wind quintet based at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the EastWind Ensemble is an unusually talented group who has achieved an enviable international reputation for presenting a Baroque to modern repertoire. No surprise, for each of the players brings exceptional performing skills along with extensive solo and chamber music experience.
Dmitry SitkovetskyDmitry’s increasing involvement in contemporary music shows a keen interest in performing new repertoire. He premiered the violin concerti written for him by John Casken (1995) and Krzystof Meyer (2000) and often performs works by Dutilleux, Penderecki, Schnittke, Pärt and Shchedrin who has written several works for Sitkovetsky both as violinist and conductor. In 2005, he performed two major works by John Corigliano - his Second Symphony and the Red Violin Suite in a play/conduct concert. Sitkovetsky’s latest premiere was The Gifts of the Magi written by Jakov Jakoulov after O’Henry’s famous story and narrated by Peter Coyote with the Greensboro Symphony. He also played a unique solo recital of contemporary music at the Verbier Festival in 2009 with a program by Schedrin, Vasks, Auerbach and Ali-Zadeh.
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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 29
Mark O’ConnorFluent in both American classical and traditional
styles of music, Grammy Award-winner Mark O’Connor
is widely considered one of the most
prominent composers and violinists in the
world. His creative journey began at the
feet of two musical giants, innovative folk
fi ddler Benny Thomasson and jazz violinist
extraordinaire Stephane Grappelli.
For nearly four decades, O’Connor has
channeled the mastery of those two
mentors, pushing his creative vision to new
extremes in both composition and
performance in a variety of musical realms,
including classical, jazz, and country. Now,
at age 49, he is leveraging his deep
knowledge of indigenous American musical
styles to reinvent American classical music, both as a
composer and a performer.
Concert ProgramMARK O’CONNOR Queen Anne’s Revenge
Queen Anne’s Revenge celebrates the
current recovery of Blackbeard’s infamous
frigate just off Topsail inlet, where it was
wrecked in 1718. When introduced to the
idea of composing an orchestral piece
about the French frigate slave ship
originally called La Concorde that became
Blackbeard’s pirate ship, O’Connor
enthusiastically researched the subject
and immediately began to get some
musical ideas for a piece. As
the composer put it: “My
goal is to set the stage for the
subject with an orchestral
overture. I think listeners will
hear the drama, activity and
dialogue of pirate characters
aboard the ship, as well as
sense the motion -- the chase
on the high seas.”
MarkO’Connor
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WORLD PREMIERE
CreditsMade possible by a grant from American Express through the United Arts Council of Greater
Greensboro, tonight’s world premiere also celebrates the opening weekend of North Carolina’s new
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artists, presenters, producing organizations, museums and venues. The Festival features more than 80
unique events between now and October 8, including theatre, music, dance, the visual arts, exhibits,
workshops and other programs hosted across dozens of venues here in Greensboro.
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Two poems by Johann von Goethe, the
foremost German poet in the early 19th
century, form the literary basis of this
work. Although “Calm Sea” sounds like it
would be beneficial to the sailor, this was
before engine-powered ships, and actually
meant a ship floundering with no wind to
fill its sails. The second poem, “Prosperous
Voyage”, has the wind returning and
landfall sighted. The slow and then fast
sections of Mendelssohn’s overture depict
these two contrasting fortunes for the
sailor.
In 1815, Beethoven wrote a cantata
based on these two poems of Goethe,
and, in the same year, Schubert wrote a
song with the text of “Calm Sea”.
Mendelssohn knew of Beethoven’s piece
and was drawn to creating a purely
instrumental version. It was first
performed in 1828. We do not know if
Mendelssohn knew Schubert’s song.
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN(1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor
Chopin wrote his two piano concerti in
1830. Concerto No.1, performed tonight,
was actually the second of the two, but
was named “No.1” because it was the first
published. The virtuoso pianist and
composer played the piano in the first
performance on October 11, 1830 in
Warsaw in what was one of his final
concerts before leaving Poland for Vienna
and then Paris.
In listening to this work, one must
remember that Chopin was, first and
foremost, a pianist who composed for his
instrument. Some concerti have a healthy
interplay between soloist and orchestra,
but here the orchestra is very much in a
supportive role. The pianist shines with all
of his or her virtuosity while the orchestra
supplies the harmonies and, once the
soloist enters, adds little in the way of
melody. The work itself has the three
movements typical of many concerti: fast,
slow, fast.
EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)
Enigma Variations
The Enigma Variations started as a way
for Elgar to entertain his wife. One night in
1898, the composer was improvising
melodies at the piaNo.Alice liked one of
these and asked her husband to play it
again. Not only did Elgar repeat the music,
but he then spontaneously created
variations on that theme in different styles
that reminded them of different friends.
Sometimes profound works of art have
simple beginnings.
Elgar obviously liked what he had
started and expanded the little “portraits”
into the piece performed tonight. He
dedicated the work “to my friends pictured
within” and even included the initials of his
“subjects” in the name of each variation.
Just some of the musical caricatures
include the excited voice inflections of an
actor (Variation III), an amateur violinist
who had trouble crossing strings (Variation
VI), the house of a music lover (Variation
VIII), and the bulldog of one of his friends
as it jumps into a river (Variation XI). For
the program tonight, Variation XIII is of
interest because Elgar used a theme from
Mendelssohn’s “Calm Sea and Prosperous
Voyage” which may have been done to
celebrate an ocean trip of one of his
friends.
The most intriguing aspect of the
Enigma Variations is that Elgar said that
there was a hidden theme in the work that
is “not played”. Just what was meant by
this has been fodder for scholars to debate
for more than a century. Some think that
the mysterious music is “Auld Lang Syne”,
but the composer ruled this out. “Rule
Brittania” is another possibility, and many
have supported this idea over the years. It
may be Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony,
which shared the concert when the
Enigma Variations were first performed in
1899. And others feel that the “Enigma
melody” is really an accompaniment to
some other tune. Personally, I support
those who say that the “solution” to this
enigma is better left unknown.
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. DAVID L. NELSON“The Enigma… must be unguessed”
Edward Elgar talking about his
Enigma Variations
Interesting Facts
overtures based on stories
regarding the sea.
Chopin Piano Concerto No.1
was released, but years later
musicians discovered that it was
by an entirely different soloist
and orchestra than was originally
thought.
Who’s on stage?
standard 19th-century orchestra:
strings and a medium sized wind
section.
more brass instruments:
Mendelssohn 5, Chopin 7,
Elgar 11.
section, as is fitting for a piece
written in 1899.
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GUEST ARTIST
Lukas GeniusasLukas Geniusas started piano studies at the age of
fi ve at the F. Chopin Music College in Moscow, and
graduated with top honors in 2008. His grandmother,
Vera Gornostaeva, a prominent teacher and a professor
at the Moscow Conservatory, became his fi rst mentor
and in 2008, Lukas entered her class at the Moscow
State Conservatory.
At the age of 11, Lukas began taking part in
international competitions and festivals and won
numerous 1st and 2nd place prizes: 2002 International
Young Pianist Competition in St. Petersburg, 2003
First Open CMS Competition, 2004 Moscow
International Chopin Youth Piano Competition, 2005
Gina Bachauer Youth Piano Competition in Salt Lake
City; 2007 Scottish International Piano Competition,
2008 Youth Delphic Games Russia, 2008 Piano
Competition in San Marino Italy, 2009 International
Piano Competition in Pianello, Italy, and the 2010 Gina
Bachauer International Artists Competition in Salt Lake
City. His most recent and most important victory in his
musical development is winning 2nd prize at the 2010
Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.
Lukas has appeared with numerous orchestras
including the Symphonies of Hamburg and Duisburg in
Germany, BBC Scottish Symphony, Lithuanian State
Orchestra and The Capella of St. Petersburg. He has
performed in France, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, USA,
Germany and other countries.
Lukas has been a recipient of grants from the Vladimir
Spivakov and Mstislav Rostropovich Foundations, and
has been a regular participant of The New Names
Foundation Concerts. He was awarded grants from
The Russian Federation “Young Talents” and “The
Gifted Youth of XXI century.”
After hearing Lukas Geniusas perform Liszt’s “Sonata
in b minor”, Bella Davidovich said: “.. this is a prodigious
young talent, spiritually mature and in possession of a
colossal virtuosic ability.”
Concert ProgramFELIX MENDELSSOHNCalm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op.27
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPINPiano Concerto No.1 in E Minor, Op.11Lukas Geniusas, piano
I. Allegro maestoso II. Romance – Larghetto III. Rondo – Vivace
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MARK O’CONNORQueen Anne’s Revenge
EDWARD ELGAR
Theme (Andante)
Variation I (L’istesso tempo) “C.A.E.”
Variation II (Allegro) “H.D.S.-P.”
Variation III (Allegretto) “R.B.T.”
Variation IV (Allegro di molto) “W.M.B.”
Variation V (Moderato) “R.P.A.”
Variation VI (Andantino) “Ysobel”
Variation VII (Presto) “Troyte”
Variation VIII (Allegretto) “W.N.”
Variation IX (Adagio) “Nimrod”
Variation X (Intermezzo: Allegretto)
“Dorabella”
Variation XI (Allegro di molto) “G.R.S.”
Variation XII (Andante) “B.G.N.”
Variation XIII (Romanza: Moderato)
Variation XIV (Finale: Allegro Presto)
“E.D.U.”
Preludes Learn more about this evening’s music
and composers with Dr. Gregory Carroll. Preludes
is a series of informative lectures held prior to each
Masterworks performance. The presentations
begin promptly at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, and 7:00
p.m. Saturday in the upper mezzanine lobby.
Meet the Artists Join us after the Thursday
evening concert for a brief question and answer
session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, November 6, at 8:00 p.m.
Lukas Geniusas
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BEDŘICH SMETANA (1824-1884)
Die Moldau
Smetana is widely regarded as the
“father of Czech music”. His music
reflected musical and historical themes
from his country, with his pieces telling the
story of many famous Czech legends.
Perhaps no one work is a better example of
this than Die Moldau, heard tonight.
Between 1874 and 1879, Smetana
composed a series of single-movement
tone poems, collectively known as Má
vlast, or “My Homeland”. Each of the
movements is dedicated to an important
aspect of the Czech land or its history: the
ancient Castle in Prague, a legendary
female warrior, country scenes from rural
life, a small town with historical importance
to the Hussites, a mountain where the
army of St. Wenceslas slept, and, of course,
the river that runs through the country and
into Prague. This movement, Die Moldau,
is often performed by itself.
The music literally takes the listener on a
trip from the start of the river through and
past Prague. Smetana described the
musical journey:
“The composition describes the course
of the Vltava, starting from the two small
springs [which become] a single current,
the course of the Vltava through woods
and meadows, through landscapes where
a farmer’s wedding is celebrated, the round
dance of the mermaids in the night’s
moonshine: on the nearby rocks loom
proud castles, palaces and ruins aloft. The
Vltava swirls into the St John’s Rapids; then
it widens and flows toward Prague, past
the Vyšehrad, and then majestically
vanishes into the distance.”
One would think that such a nationalistic
piece would use a name from the native
tongue, but that is not the case. In Czech,
the name of the river is the “Vltava”, but
the movement is usually known by its
German name, “Die Moldau”.
MAX BRUCH (1838-1920)
The first and best-known of Bruch’s
three violin concerti has often been cited
as one of the best examples of the romantic
tradition in music. The piece is influenced
by the conservatism of Brahms, and also
uses several techniques from the
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto: connected
movements and no orchestral exposition.
Instead of a stand-alone first movement
like many concerti, Bruch gives us a
prelude (Vorspiel). And instead of having
the concerto begin with the full orchestra
playing the main theme, the movement
begins slowly and has several cadenzas
throughout. It flows directly into the
second movement which is melodic and
powerful. The finale brings back the
second-movement theme and then ends
with virtuosic dance-like music. The
revised shortly afterwards by the great
violinist Joseph Joachim.
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)
Symphony No.8 in G Major, Op.88
Although Dvořák was greatly influenced
by Czech folk music, he is often considered
more of a “universal” composer than a
primarily “nationalistic” one such as
Smetana. He wrote significant works for
all genres, and some consider him the
most important composer – from any
country – in the period following Brahms’s
death.
That said, the melodies in the Eighth
Symphony are easily heard as coming
from the Bohemian folk music that was so
important to the composer. Within a
rather stormy first movement, Dvořák
gives us a “bird call” melody in the flutes,
again, reminiscent of his time in the Czech
countryside. Another interesting feature
of the symphony is in the third movement.
Most orchestral minuets or waltzes end
with the same character as they began,
but here Dvořák concludes the movement
with a faster dance.
The Eighth Symphony was completed in
a relatively short period of 77 days in
August through November, 1889. Dvořák
dedicated it to Emperor Franz Joseph and
the Bohemian Academy for the
Encouragement of Arts and Literature to
which the composer had recently been
elected.
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. DAVID L. NELSON“My fatherland means more to me thananything else.”Smetana in a 1860 letter
Interesting Facts
his Violin Concerto that he gave
to two pianists late in his life when
he needed some extra money.
They were to sell the score and
give the money to Bruch, but they
did not sell it until long after the
composer died.
“Die Moldau” on the planes after
they land in the Czech Republic.
Who’s on stage?The three works tonight
have almost the identical
instrumentation: pairs of
woodwinds, 4 horns, 2 trumpets,
3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and
strings.
to create the local Czech dances.
(trombones and tuba).
and second oboe players double
on piccolo and English horn,
respectively, for some important
parts.
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MASTERWORKS
GUEST ARTIST
Ray ChenWinner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition (2009)
and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition (2008), Ray
Chen is among the most compelling young violinists
today. Mr. Chen’s premiere album Virtuoso, released
worldwide on Sony Classical in January 2011, received
glowing reviews from The Times and the Chicago
Tribune, which named it the “CD of the week”.
Following this success, Ray Chen was profi led by The
Strad and Gramophone magazines as “the one to
watch”. His 2011 recital tour will bring him to Tokyo,
Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, and Dresden.
Ray Chen is currently working on his fi rst orchestral
recording; the release is planned for January 2012.
“The musicianship of Ray Chen is just as exciting as
that of Gustavo Dudamel. He seems to have it all:
instantly recognizable tone, charismatic personality
and musical authority unusual for his age. He is at the
beginning of a major career and it is a privilege to build
it with him,” says Bogdan Roscic, President of Sony
Classical.
Mr. Chen’s festival engagements include Verbier,
Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein and Dresdner Festspiele.
He will return to the 2012 Rostropovich Festival in
Moscow to participate in the celebration of Maestro’s
85th anniversary. He is looking forward to his
upcoming debuts with the Filarmonica della Scala,
Munich Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Orchestra,
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and National
Orchestra of Spain, among others.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray Chen
was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at the
age of 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand. Mr.
Chen plays the 1721 “Macmillan” Stradivarius provided
as part of the award for winning the 2008-09 Young
Concert Artists International Auditions in New York.
“From the fi rst notes there was no doubt of being in
THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING SPECIAL.”- THE
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Concert ProgramBEDŘICH SMETANADie Moldau
MAX BRUCH
Ray Chen, violin
I. Vorspiel: Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro energico
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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁKSymphony No.8 in G Major, Op.88
I. Allegro con biro
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto grazioso –
Molto vivace
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
Preludes Learn more about this evening’s music
and composers with Dr. David Nelson. Preludes
is a series of informative lectures held prior to each
Masterworks performance. The presentations
begin promptly at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, and 7:00
p.m. Saturday in the upper mezzanine lobby.
Meet the Artists Join us after the Thursday
evening concert for a brief question and answer
session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, January 15, at 8:00 p.m.
Ray Chen
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV(1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D Major, Op.25, “Classical”
When he was in his early 20’s, Sergei
Prokofiev was regarded as a somewhat
controversial composer, and his music
caused more than one scandal in the concert
hall. Given his emerging musical style and
the political changes that led to the February
Revolution of 1917, one would not expect
that the young composer would write music
that harkened back to an earlier time. But
and 1917, he composed his first symphony.
He named it the “Classical Symphony”.
In keeping with the title, Prokofiev was
looking back to the period of Haydn and
Mozart. The young Russian composer’s
words summarized the piece well: “It
seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our
day he would have retained his own style,
while accepting something of the new at the
same time. That was the kind of symphony I
wanted to write”.
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY(1840-1893)
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33
Tchaikovsky’s two works for cello and
orchestra performed tonight could hardly
be more different. The somberness of the
Pezzo Capriccioso reflected the time that
the composer spent with a friend, Nikolay
Kondratyev, who was dying of syphilis. Even
when Tchaikovsky and Kondratyev’s family
thought the sick man would improve after a
treatment of “healing waters” in Germany,
he man got worse. Tchaikovsky expressed
his sadness in the music. Pezzo Capriccioso
was written in one week in 1887.
Written ten years earlier, the Variations
on a Rococo Theme took inspiration from
Mozart, Tchaikovsky’s favorite composer,
and the resulting piece is quite light and
buoyant, looking back at a previous century
with nostalgia.
The work as we know it today is not
entirely Tchaikovsky’s. Wilhelm Fitzenhagen,
professor of cello at the Moscow
Conservatory, commissioned the piece, but
before the premiere in 1877, took some huge
liberties with it. Not only did he revise the
solo cello part, but he also changed the
order of the variations and even omitted
one. Then he took the “revised” score to the
publisher without Tchaikovsky having seen
the changes! The publisher balked at first,
but then capitulated and printed
Fitzenhagen’s version. The composer was
later asked if he wanted the piece back in its
original form, and replied “let it stay the way
it is” in frustration.
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF(1873-1943)
Vocalise for Orchestra, Op.34, No.14
The Vocalise was originally published
for voice and piano in 1912 with the singer
singing without words on the vowel of his
or her choosing. It is this “wordless”
quality that has allowed the music to be
transcribed for dozens of combinations,
including orchestra, chamber ensemble,
solo instruments with piano, solo
instruments without piano, and even an
electronic instrument called a theremin.
The performance tonight is
Rachmaninoff’s own arrangement.
IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Firebird Suite
The collaboration between Stravinsky
and Sergei Diaghilev, the director of the
Ballet Russes in Paris, is one of the most
important in the history of music. In 1909,
the stage impresario heard the composer’s
Fireworks, and after commissioning him
to do some orchestrations, Diaghilev
asked Stravinsky to compose a new ballet,
The Firebird. Following its premiere in
1910, two more ballets followed: Petrushka
(1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). These
compositions are one of the most
noteworthy sets of works in all of music.
The story of the Firebird combines the
mythical bird from Slavic folklore with a
Russian tale of a man who cannot die
because his soul is protected from death.
The 45-minute work is often performed
as a ballet, but for the concert stage,
Stravinsky created three different suites of
music. The 1919 version on tonight’s
program is the most frequently performed
of these suites.
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. DAVID L. NELSON“To listen is an effort, and just to hear has no merit.”Igor Stravinsky
Interesting Facts
citizen in 1945, and lived in Los
Angeles near Arnold Schoenberg
Stravinsky wanted their sons to
be lawyers.
Who’s on stage?
eschewed the large orchestra
for the works tonight, instead
writing for a “classical” orchestra
with pairs of woodwinds and a
handful of brass instruments.
more power, with added brass
and percussion
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MASTERWORKS
GUEST ARTIST
Sergey AntonovHailed as “a brilliant cellist” by the legendary Mstislav
Rostropovich, Sergey Antonov went on to prove his
mentor’s proclamation when he became one of the
youngest cellists ever awarded the gold medal at the
International Tchaikovsky Competition. Antonov’s
entry into this elite stratum of sought-after classical
artists has already placed him on stages at world-
renowned venues from Russia’s Great Hall at the
Moscow Conservatory to Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
Born in Moscow, Russia, to a musical family, Antonov
began his cello studies at the age of fi ve, initially under
the tutelage of his mother, Maria Zhurayleva, and went
on to graduate from Moscow Conservatory having
studied with Natalia Shakhovskaya, and chamber music
with Alexander Bonduryansky. In the US he worked
with the Grammy nominated cellist Terry King.
It was during Antonov’s conservatory years that his
abilities were recognized by Rostropovich, who had
frequently taught master classes to gifted and highly
advanced pupils. The celebrated cellist was so
impressed with Antonov’s talent; he invited the young
student to perform with him during a tour of Europe and
Russia.
In addition to being the 2007 Tchaikovsky gold
medal winner for cello, Antonov has been a recipient of
the 2008 Golden Talent Award by the Russian
Performing Arts Foundation, as well as garnering top
soloist honors in the International Justus Friedrich
Dotzauer Competition, Dresden, Germany, the David
Popper International Cello Competition, Budapest,
Hungary, and the American String Teachers Association
Competition, Detroit Michigan.
He has performed live in concert on Boston’s NPR
radio station WGBH, and his performance with the
Moscow Philharmonic in their “Stars of the 21st
Century” series has been broadcast on Russian National
Television. Antonov resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
Concert ProgramSERGEI PROKOFIEVSymphony No.1 in D Major, Op.25, “Classical”
I. Allegro II. Larghetto III. Gavotta: Non troppo allegro IV. Finale: Molto vivace
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33Sergey Antonov, cello
Moderato assai quasi Andante - Thema: Moderato sempliceVar. I: Tempo della ThemaVar. II: Tempo della ThemaVar. III: Andante sostenutoVar. IV: Andante graziosoVar. V: Allegro moderatoVar. VI: AndanteVar. VII e Coda: Allegro vivo
INTERMISSION
SERGEI RACHMANINOFFVocalise for Orchestra, Op.34, No.14
IGOR STRAVINSKYFirebird Suite (1919)
Preludes Learn more about this evening’s music
and composers with Dr. Gregory Carroll. Preludes
is a series of informative lectures held prior to each
Masterworks performance. The presentations
begin promptly at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, and 7:00
p.m. Saturday in the upper mezzanine lobby.
Meet the Artists Join us after the Thursday
evening concert for a brief question and answer
session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, February 19, at 8:00 p.m.
Encore Performance This concert will be
repeated on Friday, January 20, at High Point
University.
Sergey Antonov
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach’s second orchestra suite was
probably written around 1720 while we
worked for Prince Leopold of Cöthen.
During his time in this post, 1717 to 1723,
Bach wrote many secular works, including
the suites for unaccompanied cello,
sonatas and partitas for solo violin, and
the first two of his orchestral suites.
The orchestral suites begin with an
overture and are then followed by a series
of dance movements. The intention,
however, was not to have music to dance
to, but to create stylized dances that were
to be listened to. They were based on
existing dances – gigues, sarabandes,
gavottes – but contained more intricacy
and embellishment than would be found
in music that accompanied actual
dancing.
The Suite No.2 in B Minor is written for
flute, strings and continuo. The
prominence of the flute, especially in the
last movement, has practically made this
piece into a flute concerto.
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL
Suite from Water Music
Two of Handel’s most popular orchestral
works are his two “named” suites: the
“Music for the Royal Fireworks” and the
“Water Music”. Both are delightful
compositions, even though there is
nothing about the music in either that
relates to fireworks or water. Still, the
stories of each are historically rich, and
this adds to their musical charm.
In 1717, King George I requested Handel
to write music for a unique outdoor
concert. On July 17th, two large barges in
London’s River Thames held the festivities.
Fifty instrumentalists performed on the
Musician’s Barge, and the King and many
of his friends listened from the Royal
Barge. Apparently the King enjoyed the
music so much that he ordered the
musicians to play the entire work three
times that day. This was obviously before
the musician’s union was formed.
The music itself has numerous
movements and a complete performance
is rather lengthy. Today, the Water Music
is usually performed as one of three suites
that contain different selections of
movements. The performance tonight will
combine movements from the first and
second of these suites.
ANTONIO VIVALDI
The Four Seasons
Vivaldi was an unusual combination of
a priest and virtuoso violinist. For years,
he was the string teacher at Venice’s
Ospedale of the Pietà, one of that city’s
orphanages for girls. But as the reputation
of both his teaching and composing
spread, wealthy families began sending
their daughters to the Pietà to study under
Vivaldi.
“The Four Seasons” are actually four
concertos in a series of eight which were
published as the “Trial of Harmony and
Invention” Op.8 in 1725. Each of these
concertos is for violin solo, accompanied
by strings and basso continuo. They are all
in three movements – fast, slow, fast – and
each is about ten minutes in length. What
is unusual about these four is that they are
accompanied by short sonnets that
describe the seasons. Vivaldi molded his
composition to these verses, creating
musical depictions of the activities of a
year.
The first movements of the four
concertos have the richest imagery. In the
opening movement of “Spring”, Vivaldi
gives us bird songs, the trickling of the
springs, a thunderstorm, and, after the
storm has passed, the return of the bird
songs. “Summer” begins with a sense of
being exhausted by the heat, three birds
(cuckoo, turtledove, and goldfinch),
summer breezes that turn into the North
Wind, and finally the tears of a village boy.
“Autumn” has the dancing and singing of
the villagers, and a drunkard who
eventually falls asleep. The sounds of
“Winter” are particularly easy to hear: a
howling wind, attempts to stamp one’s
feet to get warm, and the chattering of
teeth.
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. DAVID L. NELSON“Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived.”
Beethoven
Interesting Facts
have been used in The Frugal
Gourmet, The Dead Poet’s
Society, and at the Magic
Kingdom in Disney World.
of “The Four Seasons” sold more
than two million copies.
Who’s on stage?The Bach and Vivaldi use a
small Baroque orchestra: only
a few strings and continuo to
accompany the solo instrument.
more wind instruments, the
strength of which was needed for
an outdoor performance.
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GUEST ARTIST
Dmitry SitkovetskySee bio on page 15.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Dima!
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Concert ProgramJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Debra Pivetta, fl ute
I. Ouverture
II. Rondeau
III. Sarabande
IV. Bourrée I/II
V. Polonaise (Lentement) - Double
VI. Minuet
VII. Badineri
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDELSuite from Water Music
I. Overture
II. Adagio e staccato
III. Allegro
IV. Andante
V. Air
VI. Allegro molto
VII. Allegro
VIII. Alla Hornpipe
INTERMISSION
ANTONIO VIVALDIThe Four Seasons
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
“La primavera” (Spring)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro Pastorale
Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.8, RV 315,
“L’estate” (Summer)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
III. Presto
Concerto No.3 in F major, Op.8, RV 293,
“L’autunno” (Autumn)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto
III. Allegro
Concerto No.4 in F minor, Op.8, RV 297,
“L’inverno” (Winter)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro
DmitrySitkovetsky
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Preludes Learn more about this evening’s music and composers
with Dr. Sonia Archer-Capuzzo. Preludes is a series of informative
lectures held prior to each Masterworks performance. The
presentations begin promptly at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, and 7:00 p.m.
Saturday in the upper mezzanine lobby.
Meet the Artists Join us after the Thursday evening concert for a
brief question and answer session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artists and Dima.
Broadcast WFDD will broadcast this concert on Sunday, April 30,
at 8:00 p.m.
Madamina! Il catalogo,
from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Madamina! Il catalogo is sung by Don
Giovanni’s sidekick, Leporello, as he tries
to “comfort” Donna Elvira who is upset
because Giovanni loved her then left her.
Leporello tells her that she is not alone,
and then recites a list of his master’s
231 in Germany, and up to 1003 in Spain.
The music is appropriately known as the
“The Catalog Aria”.
Aleko’s Cavatina,
from Rachmininoff’s Aleko
Aleko is the first of three operas by
Rachmaninoff, set to an adaptation of The
Gypsies, a poem by Alexander Pushkin.
Rachmaninoff wrote it when he was
nineteen. In his cavatina, Aleko sings of his
torment over his lover Zemfira who just
left him for another gypsy.
Come dal ciel precipita,
from Verdi’s Macbeth
In the second act of Verdi’s opera
Macbeth, several men wait to murder
Banco who has been selected to create
the next royal lineage. In his aria, Banco
sings of his apprehension over the
situation: “O, how the darkness falls from
heaven”.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Op.12
There are many popular stories about
Beethoven being a difficult person to be
around, arguing with housemaids,
landlords, and even nobility. But beneath
this gruff exterior was a man who deeply
believed in the inherent goodness and
joyfulness of man. This is why he was so
attracted to Schiller’s An die Freude text.
The composer lived with this text for many
years and must have been deeply touched
by words such as “joy, thou heavenly spark
of God”, “all men shall be brothers”, and
“all creatures drink joy from Nature’s
breast”.
Although the first performance of the
9th Symphony was on May 27, 1824,
Beethoven’s earliest attempts to set
Schiller’s text was found in the 1790’s. The
text is also in the composer’s sketches for
his 7th and 8th Symphonies in 1811.
Beethoven continued to modify this music
over the next decade or so until the theme
took its final shape. He also needed time
and practice to let the entire fourth
movement mature: in 1808, he wrote the
Choral Fantasy for Piano, Soloists, Chorus
and Orchestra which acted as a study to
the finale of the 9th Symphony.
The fourth movement is a true
culmination of the work. Its opening
minutes look backward and forward in the
piece. Beethoven actually weaves six
different melodies together to form the
introduction to the Ode to Joy. The
movement begins with dissonant and
chaotic music which acts as a rude
awakening to the peaceful ending of the
third movement. Then Beethoven starts
to look ahead by having the lower strings
play the recitative that the bass soloist will
sing in a few minutes, and amid this string
recitative are little remembrances of the
first three movements and a hint of the
famous theme to follow.
The first time Beethoven gives us the
Ode to Joy theme, it is in the low strings,
coming out of the depths in its simple
perfection that took him so long to get just
right. We hear it four times, each growing
in strength. The long introduction ends
with the cacophony that began the
movement: out of confusion comes
beauty.
Even though we have had three quarters
of an hour of spectacular music, the true
center of the symphony is about to begin.
To introduce this, the very first words of
the bass soloist are not Schiller’s but
Beethoven’s: “O Friends, not these sounds!
Let us strike up something more pleasing
and more joyful!” It is as if the Beethoven
is telling us that the traditional symphony
is over, and now it is time to enter a realm
where joy and humanity flourish. The Ode
to Joy is about to begin.
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. DAVID L. NELSON“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Beethoven
Interesting Facts
first performance of Beethoven’s
9th also played in the inaugural
concert of the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra in 1842.
“Don Giovanni” was friends with
Casanova.
Leonard Bernstein conducted
Beethoven’s 9th in Berlin in which
he changed Schiller’s words from
“joy” to “freedom”.
Who’s on stage?
Beethoven’s 9 symphonies
remained relatively constant:
pairs of woodwinds, 2 or 4 horns,
2 trumpets, and sometimes
trombones.
the 9th Symphony, Beethoven
added extremely high and
low instruments: piccolo and
contrabassoon.
Beethoven presents a Turkish
March during the tenor solo, and
uses the Janissary instruments,
triangle and cymbals, to create
the Turkish sound.
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GUEST ARTIST
Richard Ollarsaba Richard Ollarsaba, a native of Tempe, Arizona, is
currently at the UNC School of the Arts, earning a
postgraduate certifi cate in opera in addition to already
earning his Master of Music degree through the AJ
Fletcher Opera Institute where he studied under
Marilyn Taylor. While with the Fletcher Opera Institute
Mr. Ollarsaba performed such roles as Lord Cecil
(Maria Stuarda), Superintendent Budd (Albert
Herring), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Tom Carter
(Hotel Casablanca), and Sir John Falstaff (Merry
Wives of Windsor). One of Mr. Ollarsaba’s favorite
performances through the Fletcher Opera Institute
included an Institute hosted recital featuring the
renowned Mezzo-Soprano, Frederica von Stade,
where he sang alongside the diva in an impromptu
encore. In his time in Winston-Salem, Mr. Ollarsaba
made his Piedmont Opera debut in the role of Ferrando
(Il Trovatore) and was seen again with Piedmont
Opera in the role of Masetto (Don Giovanni).
He participated in the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions in Atlanta, Georgia where he placed
second in the Southeastern Region.
Mr. Ollarsaba earned his Bachelor of Music degree
from the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland,
Ohio where he studied under Mary Schiller. While in
Cleveland, Mr. Ollarsaba made his Opera Cleveland
debut in the 2008 production of Le nozze di Figaro in
the role of Antonio. Shortly after, he debuted with the
Kansas City Symphony in their performances of
Handel’s Messiah. The Kansas City Star reviewed that
“despite his youth, he exhibited a marvelous resonant
voice” and that “this is one singer to watch in years to
come.”
Concert ProgramTHREE BASS ARIAS
Richard Ollarsaba, bass
Madamina! Il catalogo,
from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Aleko’s Cavatina,
from Rachmininoff ’s Aleko
Come dal ciel precipita,
from Verdi’s Macbeth
INTERMISSION
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENSymphony No.9 in D Minor, Op.125
Soloists TBA
Choral Society of Greensboro
Jon Brotherton, Choral Director
I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco
maestoso
II. Scherzo: Molto vivace - Presto
III. Adagio molto e cantabile
IV. Finale
Preludes Learn more about this evening’s music
and composers with Dr. David Nelson. Preludes
is a series of informative lectures held prior to each
Masterworks performance. The presentations
begin promptly at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, and 7:00
p.m. Saturday in the upper mezzanine lobby.
Meet the Artists Join us after the Thursday
evening concert for a brief question and answer
session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast WFDD will broadcast this
concert in September 2012., at 8:00 p.m.
RichardOllarsaba
MAY 3War Memorial Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
SPONSORED BY
MAY 5Dana Auditorium
8:00 p.m.
SPONSORED BY
SEASON SPONSORS
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CORPORATE SPONSORS
DIAMOND CIRCLE $40,000 and above
PLATINUM GOLD CIRCLE
$10,000–39,999
PLATINUM CIRCLE
$5,000–9,999
GOLD CIRCLE
$2,500–4,999
SILVER CIRCLE
$1,000–2,499
FRIENDS
$100-500
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50 GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Jane M. Adair
June Anderson
Robert D. Benson
William F. Black
Lisa and Willie Bullock
Clem and Hayes Clement
Mr. Albert C. Cohen
Alan and Marta Copland
Mary Carol and Pat Danahy
Bert Davis, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. John H. Dilworth
Carol Cone Douglas
Barry Frank
William and Hughlene Frank
Susan and Bill Fraser
Robert and Laura Green
Mr. and Mrs. Haynes Griffi n
Nancy and Bernard Gutterman
Holt Gwyn and Beth Boulton
Peggy and David Hamilton
Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hassell
In Memory of Marilyn E. Haxton
Robert and Donna Hodgman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Jessup
Mr. and Mrs. Orton B. Jones
Ron and Linda Jones
Bob and Barbara Lavietes
Dr. Joe LeBauer
Joan and Sam LeBauer
Mimi Levin
Ellen and Lee Lloyd
Mrs. John R. Maness
Joy C. Morrison
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Parker
Alice and Woody Pearce
Alex Plotnikov and Sveta Krylova
Doris R. Preyer
Suzanne & Bob Rhodes
Connie and Robin Saul
Pat and Bob Sevier
Ann C. Sherman
Jonathan and Anne Smith
Norman B. Smith
Flo and Bill Snider
Peter Sojka and Elisabeth Stambaugh
Dennis and Pam Stearns
Janet and Jim Stenersen
Mrs. Sidney J. Stern, Jr.
Gary and Ellen Taft
Ms. Jeanne Tannenbaum
Dr. and Mrs. S. Michael T. Tooke
Kaye and Ken Tutterow
Mary Ann Vinson
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Webber
John and Gay White
Mrs. Robert P. Williams
MAESTRO’S SILVER CIRCLE $1,000- $1,999
Dr. and Mrs. John E. ChandlerBob and Sherry Harris
Leonard and Tobee Kaplan
Dr. and Mrs. Preston W. KeithAnn and Bob Kroupa
Carole and Sam Moore
Roberts Family FoundationRobert and Alice SpullerWiley and Virginia Sykes
MAESTRO’S GOLD CIRCLE $2,000-$4,999
Anonymous
MAESTRO’S PLATINUM CIRCLE $10,000
MAESTRO’S INNER CIRCLE $5,000 +Jack and Nancy Britts
Mr. Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
Barbara Cone
Ms. Barbara Kretzer
AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
2011-2012 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
Randall Kaplan and
Kathy ManningChes Kennedy and
John Overfi eld
Susan and
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Vanessa and
Roy Carroll
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Lynne and John AlexanderMargaret and Howard ArbuckleMr. and Mrs. Joe BaughmanLena and Lacy BaynesDr. Veita J. Bland-SpencerCarlyn and R. Steve BowdenMyrna CarlockLaura Chesak and Gary SteeleySarah and Jeff rey ChowningHoward and Louise Chubbs Dr. Bryan and Renea CobbDorothy and Clyde CollinsRobert and Sally ConeWilliam J. and Elizabeth A. CraftLisa CrawfordPhilippe and Brigitte DorierClara and Jim DugginsLibby and Richard Gabriel
Jessica and Mark GoodJoseph GruendlerDebbie and Gerhard Heidfeld Dr. William B. HerringLarry and Julia HippShawn HouckJoe and Cindy Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Irvin, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. D.K. JeongMitchell and Suzanne JohnsonPeggy and Phil JohnsonJudy F. JollyJerry and Jo KennedyMrs. Thelma KirkMose and Doris Edgerton KiserBob and Joretta KlepferBill and Diana KnoxLouise and Bill Latture
Richard and Jane LevyMr. and Mrs. Mark LittrellDorothy C. McGeheeGail McGroartyDavid and Heather OdahowskiWatty and Marvin PinsonDabney and Walker SandersMs. Laura SantanaJim and Cindi SchrumSusan and Jerry SchwartzJoy and Steve ShavitzShirley SpearsChristopher C. and Laura B. TewSarah and Jack WarmathMary Price WernerDr. and Mrs. Robert W. WoodwardEarl and Lynette WrennTom & Elaine Wright Family Foundation
Mike Barringer and Jeff EveretteNan and John BayersdorferNancy and Tom BeardPedie and Tony BengelMr. and Mrs. Arthur BluethenthalDavid and Nancy BrayJudy BreeceEdwin and Joan BryanNancy and Jim BryanNancy and James BuchananLinda and Jim CarlisleLynn and Tom ChandlerFred and Susan ChappellHenry L. and Ruth S.CobleBetty and Ben Cone, Jr.Sally and Alan ConeGeorge CowperMary and Ron Cox
Pam and Alan DuncanMarion and Peggy FollinCarol and Jud FranklinThurman and Peg FreezeDr. and Mrs. Robert M. GayMr. and Mrs. Carson GranthamMr. Jamie A. GrossoJames Gwatkin III and Marlene C. NielsenMarianne and Xaver HertleDonna Moran and Garnett HughesRep. Maggie Jeff us and Ted ThompsonJim and Frances JochumBayard W. JohnstonClaire KelleherVickie and John KilimanjaroRalph and Andrea KnuppPearl and Bob KraayMr. and Mrs. David Kuratnick
Seymour and Carol LevinSandra and Frank LoNanoMrs. Jon Wade MeadowsJim and Fray MetcalfeIrene M. MooreJohn and Donna PetersonDale and Barbara PhippsWilliam R. and Beverley C. RogersJoseph RosenblumDr. Rebecca SaundersMr. and Mrs. W. David SellersPhyllis ShavitzBetty Ann and Kenneth SmithPam and David SprinkleJimmy and Susan ThompsonRobert F. WinsorDavid and Lauren WorthBeverly and Patrick Wright, Jr.
Anonymous
Susan and Dan Acker
Rose and Victor Ackermann
Helen and John Alford
Carolyn and Donald Allen
Dr. and Mrs. William O. Ameen, Jr.
Gary and Linda Anderson
Kay and R.B. Arthur
Alice D. Bachman
Mrs. Nancy S. Balderacchi
Joan and Eddie Bass
Brenda and Bill Beasley
Mike and Sue Becker
Mary P. Best
Steve and Lin Bostian
Phyllis C. and R. Marshall Bowden
Hedy Breckenridge
Suejette and David Brown
Nancy and Trip Brown
Skip and Carol Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. George Burfeind
Philip and Kathe Burger
Phil and Sarah Burger
Peter and Elizabeth Burger
Alex and Maureen Burns
Kathy and H.T. Busby
Bob and Barbara Byrd
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Callicott
Harold O. Carpenter
Hodges and Joe Carroll
Jim and Stacey Carson
Emily C. Carter
Marlene H. Cato
Kent John Chabotar
Patricia A. Chamings
Anne B. Christian
Louann A. Clarke
Congressman Howard Coble
Dr. Michael L. and Faye C. Collins
Diane Conrad
in honor of Nicholas Cox
Keith Cushman
Robert F. Dabbs
Helen M. Davidson
Cliff ord and Dorothea Davis
Heinrich A. den Boer
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Doyle
Mr. and Mrs. John Drinkard
Thomas and Sandra Duez
James and Rachel Dunn
Harry and Ruth Edgren
Eric and Cheryl Eley
Walter and Margaret Faison
Sue B. and Jorman W. Fields
Elizabeth and Edgar Fisher
Dr. Stuart and Carol Fountain
Virginia Gaskin
Mr. Lawrence Gasper
Bill and Jeanette Giddings
David and Kathleen Gleeson
Nancy L. Glenz
Jean and Gary Goodman
Mr. J. Glenn Grayson
FRIENDS BENEFACTOR $500- $999
FRIENDS PATRON $250-$499
FRIENDS SUPPORTER $100-$249
2011-2012 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
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Robert Green, MD and Jaquelyn Reilly
Norman Grey
Susan S. Griswold
Carl and Anne Grube
Jim and Judy Guidone
Nancy & Fred Guttman
Michele Haber/ Martin Friedman
Jack and Liz Harrell
Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Harris
Robert and Judith Herron
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Horowitz
Gail and Ken Huggins
Kay and Clyde Hunt
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Imbus
Daniel E. James
Paul and Sara Jones
Rosamond V. P. Kaufman-Totterweich
Mike and Lonnie Keogh
John and Barbara Key
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Kriegsman
Margery Lane
Curtis and Terry Lashley
John and Marilyn Lauritzen
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Law
Anita Lawson
Dan and Genevieve Leach
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lewis
Keith Lydick
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Mabe, Jr.
Natalie Mapou
James and Linda Martin
Donald Martin and Elizabeth Haile
Dan and Bonnie McAlister
Rosemary McGee
J. Gordon McLamb
Butch and Tricia Mendenhall
Margaret and Patrick Miller
Dr. and Mrs. Terry G. Mitchell
Richard and Walena Morse
Charles and Mary Murphy
Sara and Jim Niver
Talmage and Jana Nowell
Betsy and Mitchell Oakley
Donna Ogletree
Cameron Gordon Peck
Nancy and Peter Peiff er
Dr. Judy Penny
Gaston Penry
Jeff and Sherry Perine
Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Phipps Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. George H. Pierson
Roger and Nan Poplin
Hallly Lee Rankin
Bill and Donna Richardson
Lane and Karen Ridenhour
John T. Roberts
Kitty and George Robison
Hans and Ellen Roethling
Camilla S. Ruffi n
Marnie and Jerry Ruskin
Barbara Sanders
Beatrice and Stewart Schall
Mary Fran Schickedantz
Jack and Nancy Scism
Barbara and Jim Scott
Carl and Leigh Seager
Irwin and Judy Smallwood
Barbara and Arthur Sohn
Marian K. Solleder
Dave and Jean Stanfi eld
Richard and Cindy Stark
Sue and Fred Starr
Dr. and Mrs. H. Frank Starr, Jr.
Ralph and Nancy Stevens
Donald B. Stilwell, Jr.
Eileen Stirling
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stoehr
Amelia C. Stout
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Sural
Peggy R. Tager
Stuart and Barbara Teichman
Mrs. John O Toledano
Patsy Troutman
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tysinger
Michael and Kelly Wainscott
Ken and Suzy Walker
Bob and Dot Walker
Diane and James Watkins
BJ Weatherby and Verne Nielsen
Dr. and Mrs. William J. Weatherly
Lynda D. Williams
Peggy Wilson
Ron and Linda Wilson
Van and Margaret Woltz
Amanda S. Wood
Homer Wright
Peter and Darlene Young
Anonymous
James P. and Carol D. Aplington
Edwin Armstrong
Brenda B. Barnes
Charlotte P. Barney
Ms. Betty M. Baxter
Kathleen and Sion Bell
Jean L. Berry
Barbara and Dave Blackman
James and Judith Bolzan
Dorothy Bourgeois
Sydney and Hannah Britt
Ouida B. Brown
Jean R. Buchert
Fred Carlson
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Chappell
Carolyn Chappell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coble
Bob and Sophie Connolley
Polly Butler Cornelius
James and Robin Craddock
Shirley and Jerry Crawford
Margot H. Cunningham
Mr. Kearns Davis
Lorraine Dodds
Ms. Kay Doost
Ms. Stella B. Efi rd
Leon Eisen
Ned and Claudia Eldridge
Edna Fica
Inessa Fishbeyn-Reeve
Charles J. and Alice H. Fisher
Margaret Flannery
Clarence Floyd
Al and Cookie Fogleman
J. Paul Ford, Jr.
Sherri R. Forrester
Carol S. Fray
Elizabeth Jane Fryman
Robert W. Fuller
Ildar Gabitov
John and Christine Gentry
Carolyn Gribnau
Leonard and Rita Guyes
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Hall, Jr.
Carolyn Hampton
In Memory of Bill Cordes
by Bob and Sherry Harris
In Memory of Clayton Lee
by Bob and Sherry Harris
Chip and Cathy Hicks
Ms. Karen Hogarth
Anne and Mike Honer
Brad and Jackie Howes
Barbara T. Hughes
Claude Hutcheson
Sam and Tomasita Jacubowitz
Mary Ann James
Gwen Jeff reys
Lynn S. Jones
Mrs. Diane L. Joyner
Kimio and Yaeko Katsuki
Mr. and Mrs. James A. King, Jr.
Bonnie and John Knab
Robert and Jean Knox
Edward and Joanne Koehler
Joan Kramer
Carolyn C. Lester
Karen Lisenby
Andrew Long, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. DT Lucey
Christine Macdonald
Nancy Y. Madden
Bob and Dotty Maurer
Sandy and Jim McCall
Mrs. Aileen S. McCraw
Peter and Karen Meyers
Gerald Miller
Mary Carleton Miller
Mary and Jim Mooney
Dr. and Mrs. Robery Mowry
Floyd Nesbitt
Sandra and Mark O’Neil
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Paden
Ed and Phyllis Parkerson
Sarah Pearlman
Janet Plummer
Joan N. Poole
Mrs. Celeste B. Price
Ida Grace Roberts
Joshua B. Rose, PE
Clyde Rudd
Lynn Sametz and Victor Streib
C. Art and Judy Schoolfi eld
Maurice and Genie Schwartz
George and Phyllis Setzer
Ann M. Shelton
Mary C. Shore
Mr. and Mrs. Frank V. Smith, Jr.
John and Ouida Spillman
Donald Straffi n
Elmer and Margaret Straight
Peggy Tooker
Mr. Allen W. Trelease
Rosemary Reed Troxler
Edna Wagshal
Robert and Virginia Waldron
Charles and Callie Wallace
Dr. William E. Waters
Lynne and William Watson
Jeaneane Williams
Merrilou Williams
Laura and Gary Wolf
Susan and David Wolfe
FRIENDS SUPPORTER $100-$249
FRIENDS UP TO $99
2011-2012 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
Our sincere appreciation to supporters of the 2011-2012 Annual Campaign. This list is current as of September 6, 2011. If you would like to be a part of this year’s
campaign, please contact Lisa Crawford: 336.335.5456 ext. 222 or [email protected]
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 53
$30,000Greensboro Symphony Guild
$25,000Mike and Lynn Haley
$5,000Anonymous FundDr. Jean B. BrooksBarbara and Herman ConeJoan and Bill HemphillLinda and Maurice JenningsHelen and Al LineberryCarolyn and John ManessCarole and Ed MonroePat Austin NussbaumLynn R. Prickett Fund through Betty
and Charles Cheek
$1,500–$2,500Kay Bryan EdwardsMarie and Ed Faulkner, Jr.
Susan and Bill FraserKenneth and Ronda KornfeldAnn and Bob KroupaFred L. Proctor, Sr.Carl W. and Lina Z. Treleaven
$1,000Beverly and Ray BerryNancy and Alex BrownMartha and John ChandlerDorothy and Clyde CollinsSally and Alan ConeSally B. and Robert C. ConeMary Carol and Pat DanahyMartha and Reed DevaneGeorge and Anna DickiesonJack C. DixonMargaret and Walter FaisonDorothy and Stanley FrankCharles T. Hagan, Jr.Charles and Jeanne HassellGinger and Walter Hornig
Rachel S. HullBonnie and Bynum HunterJ.T. and Johnnye Greer HunterLenora W. JacksonKaren and Eugene JohnstonJudy and Allen JollyJohn and Ellen KavanaghMose and Doris Egerton KiserGlorine and Tom LuperDale and Susan MillerJoy and Moon MorrisonDoris R. PreyerRoyce and Jane ReynoldsPeggy and Lewis RitchieShirley SpearsKay SternJohn C. Tate, Jr.Boppy and John O. ToledanoDorothy and Charles WeillB.J. and Bob WilliamsDoug and Julia WilsonElaine and Tom Wright
CAROLINE M. LEE ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIRCaroline Lee tirelessly led the Greensboro Symphony Endowment Fund for more then twenty years. To honor her years
of service and the remarkable growth of the Fund, the Guild and Symphony friends honored Caroline by endowing the
Associate Concertmaster’s Chair in 2001.
TRUSTEESAnn E. Kroupa, Chairman
Lisa Bullock
Sally B. Cone
Robert Harris
A. Robinson Hassell
Linda Jones
Lee Lloyd
Lewis R. Ritchie
William R. Rogers, Ph.D.
Celebrating our 25th Silver Anniversary In 1985, the seeds of the Greensboro Symphony Endowment Fund (GSEF) were planted by Symphony Guild
President, Rachel Hull Galyon. Under her leadership, the Guild raised an additional $50,000 during the
1985-1986 season to contribute toward endowing the $250,000 Concertmaster’s Chair, completed in 1995,
marking the official launch of the GSEF. The leadership torch was passed to Guild member, Caroline M. Lee,
who devoted more than twenty years to the development and growth of the fund. In 1995, Guild member Kay
Edwards and GSO Board Member, Maurice Jennings, launched a successful campaign to surpass the GSEF’s
$1 million milestone. During the 2001-2002 season, the fund surpassed $2.5 million with a special initiative
spearheaded by Caroline Lee. In 2001, Barbara Cone led a secret campaign undertaken by Endowment donors
to establish the Associate Concertmaster’s Chair in honor of Caroline M. Lee. Since 2006, Cathy and Garson
Rice have served as co-chairs of the Endowment Committee. The Greensboro Symphony Endowment Fund
celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2011 with assets totaling over $4,000,000. At the March 2011 Board
Meeting, the GSEF Trustees voted to make a $25,000 distribution to the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
in honor of this momentous milestone. This distribution was in addition to the gift of $121,431 made to the
Symphony for its annual operating budget, received in January 2011.
ENDOWMENT FUND
NAMED FUNDS $10,000- $39,999Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus A. Adams, III
Dorothy B. and T. Clyde Collins
Marion Stedman Covington
Amelia Tatum Daniel Memorial
by Samuel Cameron Tatum
Warren Moore and Anne Moore Diaz
Memorial by Jean Paul Moore
George W. and Anna B. Dickieson
Kay Bryan Edwards by KPB Corporation
Ronda Ellen and Kenneth Kornfeld
Mrs. E. Pierpoint Gill
Herbert and Mary Frances Hazelman
Michel Family Foundation
In honor of Sally Millikin by Steve Millikin
Dr. E. Phillip Morgan Memorial
by Inga Borgstorm Morgan,
Kent and Carolyn Morgan
Carolyn and Harold O’Tuel
Doris R. Preyer, Trustee William Y. Preyer, Jr. CLU
Lynn R. and Karl E. Prickett Fund
Mr. And Mrs. J. W. Werner, Jr.
HERITAGE SOCIETY The Heritage Society is composed of those who provided bequests in their wills to the Greensboro Symphony
Endowment Fund. Gifts may be in honor or as a memorial.
Anonymous Bequests
Nan and John Bayersdorfer
Anne Rendleman Daniel
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Guirlinger
Claire Kelleher
Pearl E. and Robert A. Kraay
E. Joseph LeBauer
Caroline M. and N. Clayton Lee
Susan and Dale Miller
Roy E. and Christine P. Rizzo
Mrs. Beverly C. Moore
Kitty and George Robison
Connie and Robin Saul
Florence G. Young
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Patrons of chairs receive permanent listing in
the playbill, recognition on column in auditorium
lobby, and preferential parking. The Greensboro Symphony is grateful for your generous support in building the
Endowment Fund. For more information on how you may play a part in the continuation of the Symphony’s great music and education programs, please call co-chairs Cathy and Garson Rice at 336-273-1426.
MAESTRO’S PODIUM $500,000Endowed by bequest
MAESTRO’S PODIUMEMERITUS CHAIR$300,000Milton J. Jackson Memorial Chairby Lenora W. Jackson
YOUTH ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR’S CHAIR$275,0001 CHAIR AVAILABLE
CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR $250,000Greensboro Symphony Guild
THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTARTIST PIANO CHAIR$250,000 In honor of Linda M. Jones
THE YOUTHPHILHARMONIC CHAIR$150,000In honor of Dr. Jean B. Brooks.
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR $150,000In Honor of Caroline M. Lee
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR · $100,000Chair Available
PRINCIPAL CHAIRS · $80,000 11 CHAIRS AVAILABLEKathleen Price Bryan Memorial Chair by Kay Bryan Edwards and Family
Peter B. Bush Memorial Chairby Mary Ann Bush and ChildrenIrene Mitchell Moore andBeverly Cooper Moore Chair
Fraser Family Chairby Susan and Bill Fraser
Eleanor Downes Mewborn ChairIn Memory of Carolyn Riddle Downes
ASSOCIATE AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CHAIRS · $60,0001 CHAIR AVAILABLEKay Bryan Edwards Chairby Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
Jeanne Maxwell Hassell Chair by Charles M. Hassell
Carolyn J. Maness Chairby John R. Maness
Garson L. Rice, Jr. Chairby Catherine G. Rice and Children
SECTION CHAIRS · $40,0009 CHAIRS AVAILABLEAustin Family Chairby Patricia Austin Sevier
Richard Kelly Bowles, Jr. Memorial Chairby Louise H. and R. Kelly Bowles Family Foundation
Brough-Webber Chair by Elizabeth Brough Webber and William R. Webber
Lillian Daley Brown Memorial Chair by the Massey Trust through Nancy C. and Alex S. Brown, Jr.
Mr. Lenoir Chambers Memorial Chairby Mr. Lenoir Chambers Wright
John E. and Martha S. Chandler Chair
Barbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr. Chairby Donna M. and Herman Cone III
Elaine Wolf Cone Memorial Chairby Barbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr.
Richard and Danahy Family Chairby Mary C. Richard Danahy iand Patrick Danahy
George W. Dickieson Chair GSO Conductor 1951-1963by Anna B. Dickieson
Lucy and Clark Dixon Memorial Chair by Jack C. Dixon
Marie C. and Ed Faulkner Chairby Marie C. and Ed Faulkner
Dorothy G. Frank Chairby Stanley M. Frank
Hughlene Bostian Frank and William Allen Frank Chair
James Autha Freeze Memorial Chairby J. Thurman and Peg Freeze
Greensboro Opera Company Chairby Peggy and Phil Johnson
Lynn Carroll Haley Chairby Michael W. Haley
Joan T. and William L. Hemphill Chair
Sally London Hobbs Memorial Chairby Johnnye and J. T. Hunter
Rachel Smothers Hull and Worth Brantley Hull Chair
Linda B. and Maurice Jennings Chair
Jimmie Irene Johnson Memorial Chair by Dr. Harry W. Johnson and Family
Mary Ellen and Elizabeth Anne Kavanagh Chair by Ellen C. and B. John Kavanagh
Preston Wylie Keith and Martha Elizabeth Allred Keith Chair by Dr. Preston Keith and Marty Keith
Janie C. and E. Kemp Reece Chair
Walter W. King, Jr. Memorial Chairby Elizabeth Yates King
Joyce C. Kiser Memorial Chairby Mose Kiser, Jr. and Family
Kroupa Family Chair by Bob and Ann Kroupa
Barbara B. andRobert E. Lavietes Chair
C. Scott Lee Chairby Caroline M. and N. Clayton Lee
Alice Mae and William M. Lineberry Memorial Chairby Helen H. and Albert S. Lineberry, Sr.
R. Bradford Lloyd Chairby Mary Ruth and Robert B. Lloyd, Jr.
The Michael and Anna Lodico Chairby Flo and Bill Snider
Joy C. Morrison Chair by William H. Morrison, Jr.
Carole Swope Monroe Chair by Edwin Brent Monroe
Alice Wilson Pearce Chairby Woody Pearce
Ethel Clay Price Memorial Chairby Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund
Lynn R. Prickett Memorial Chairby the Lynn R. and Karl E. Prickett Fund
Royce O. Reynolds Chair by Jane W. Reynolds
Dr. William R. and Beverley C. Rogers Chair
David Vincent Sherman Chair by Ann, Beth and Becky Sherman
Sidney J. Stern, Jr. Memorial Chairby Katherine G. Stern
Ellen and Gary Taft Chair
Richard W. and Carlotta M. Treleaven Memorial Chair by Carl W. and Lina Z. Treleaven
Frederick Kent Wilkins Memorial Chair by Kaye Andrews Wilkins and Children
Betty F. and Robert P. Williams Chair
Thomas E. and Elaine R. Wright Chair
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It is with great delight that the Greensboro Symphony Guild welcomes the 2011-2012 season of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Another magnifi cent year of programming has been carefully planned for our Masterworks, Chamber, and Pops series Symphony patrons. There is truly something for everyone!
As a volunteer organization, the Greensboro Symphony Guild members are a diverse group of devoted community leaders and friends. Since our inception in 1964, we have promoted the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and its many educational programs throughout the Piedmont Triad. Our fundraisers have provided over $1,000,000 to support the endowment and music education programs of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Award-winning programs have remained a signifi cant cornerstone of our community and have been recognized and honored in past years by the League of American Orchestras. In 1985, the Guild was honored by President Ronald Reagan with the President’s Volunteer Action Award.
Every year, we accomplish our goal of developing music appreciation in school-aged children by providing fi rst-hand experiences with our orchestra. We enrich the lives of more than 50,000 pre-school to high school aged children through school concerts and partnership programs. We provide support to our Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra through coaching and scholarship programs. And through our support of the GSO’s Music at Midday concert series, hundreds of senior citizens—many of whom would otherwise be unable to
attend concerts—are able to experience the beauty of orchestral music. There is much enthusiasm to share this Guild year. We have many exciting programs and
fundraisers which will help support our education programs. This year will see the return of the much-beloved Symphony of Homes Tour, October 28-30. The theme of this year’s tour is “Opening Doors for Music,” and we hope you will all come tour the fi ve fabulous homes that will be featured this year. Earlier in 2011, 17 lovely and bright young ladies were selected as Symphony Guild Debs, and assumed their roles as ambassadors of the Guild within our community. These ladies will be presented in December at our 33rd Annual Presentation Ball. In February, at both Masterworks concerts and the Valentine’s Day Pops concert, the Guild will be collecting old cell phones for its Tones for Tunes fundraiser. Proceeds from this project will be shared with the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra. If you plan to attend one of those concerts, please plan to bring your old phones. On March 31, 2012, we will hold our ever-popular Guild Super Sale. No matter what type of household item you might be looking for—furniture, kitchen wares, baby items, books, etc—you can fi nd it at the Super Sale. This event, like our Homes Tour, is open to the public so we hope you will join us!
On these pages are the logos of our 15 Guild Corporate Sponsors for this year. We are deeply grateful to each of them for their support. Without these sponsors we would be unable to make the contributions that the GSO has come to depend on from us.
We continue to raise awareness of the Guild within our community through our increased marketing eff orts and our use of social media. For more information on the Guild, its activities and programs, and ways you can volunteer or donate, please visit us at www.gsoguild.org, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter. You may also email us at [email protected], or call our offi ce at 336-632-1812. We are always eager to talk about how the Guild makes a diff erence in the lives of so many, Because Music Matters!
Most sincerely,
Kim Littrell
Greensboro Symphony Guild President
Kim LittrellGreensboro
Symphony
Guild
President
Greensboro Symphony GuildBecause Music Matters
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2011-2012 ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
September 24, 2011 Symphony Guild Debutantes’
Night at the Symphony
October 1, 2011 Black, White, and Bubbles Gala
October 28-30, 2011Symphony of Homes Tour,
“Opening Doors for Music”
December 28, 2011Symphony Guild Presentation Ball
March 31, 2012 GSG Super Sale
April 20, 2012Meet our Musicians Night
April 28, 2012Name that Tune
in Partnership with the GSO
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of you for your continuing generosity in supporting the Guild.
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEPresident Kim LittrellPresident Elect Libby GabrielVP Education Debbie HeidfeldVP Fund Raising Sherri HillVP Guild Operations Mary RoggVP Marketing/Publicity Robin HuntSecretary Cam CurrentTreasurer Kathy GleesonPast President Peggy HamiltonExecutive Assistant Susan Mackey
EDUCATION COUNCILAdult Outreach Ann KroupaElementary Concerts Chair Connie Saul Vice Chair Vanessa SkenesMusic in the Middle Chair Jo Kennedy Vice Chair Margaret CooleyYouth Orchestra Auditions Chair Rosemary ReedYouth Orchestra Representative Sharon KasicaWomen’s Chorus Representative Bridget MacPherson
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OPERATIONS COUNCILCorresponding/ Endowment Secretary Ann WarrickHistorian Elizabeth CraftHospitality Luncheons Chair Sandi Hedgepeth Vice Chair Linda Baker Vice Chair Andrea ZimmermanHospitality Meetings Chair Nancy Beaver Vice Chair Sandy WestonMembership Chair Suzy Walker Vice Chair Brenda GlennGSG Classics Liaison Kitty RobisonNominations/Awards Peggy HamiltonOrchestra Support Chair Karen Jacobs Vice Chair Brenda MacFaddenMaestro’s Terrace Chair Ali McVannParliamentarian Margaret FaisonPrograms Chair Linda Wilson
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OrkidstraThis entertaining series provides performances designed for three- to fi ve-year-old children. This season, the Greensboro Symphony is working with Guilford Child Development to provide concerts for children in the Head Start program.
The concerts will be based around the theme of a book by a local author - Freckles by Ellen Lloyd. The children will all receive a free concert and a copy of the book to take home. This project will help introduce children to classical music and the concert experience, and will build literacy. Because of the theme of the book, it will also help give an anti-bullying message. The concerts will feature musicians of the Greensboro Symphony and will take place in Greensboro and High Point.
In-School EnsemblesIn the winter and spring, all third and fourth grade students in Guilford County hear live performances right in their schools. Musicians from the Greensboro Symphony travel to schools and perform chamber music, demonstrate their instruments, and help students prepare for the Elementary School Concerts. The program includes a string quintet, brass quintet, woodwind quintet, and percussion trio. Ensembles visit diff erent schools each year so that students hear as many diff erent instruments as possible.
Elementary School ConcertsEvery year, all third and fourth grade students in the Piedmont region hear a dynamic program by the full Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. The Elementary School Concerts present exciting works of orchestral music. The Elementary School Concerts serve students from the Guilford, Alamance-Burlington, Asheboro, Randolph, Reidsville, and Caswell County school systems.
These concerts frequently include multimedia presentations and collaborations with the Greensboro Ballet. In addition to the concert experience, students and teachers receive educational resources and curricular materials that support the concert theme. These materials help introduce new music to students as well as connect the concert theme to topics across the curriculum.
The 2012 concert theme will be “Storytelling and Music.” The music will include Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Prokofi ev’s Peter and the Wolf, and music from the movie Harry Potter.
Music in the MiddleMusic in the Middle is an annual concert series for all seventh grade students in Guilford County. The concerts present both traditional and contemporary repertoire, and aim to expand students’ ideas of orchestral music. Resources for students and teachers are provided at the beginning of the school year to enhance the listening and learning experience.
The 2011 concert theme is “Thrills, Trills, and Transformations,” and will explore the idea of orchestration. The repertoire will include Russell Peck’s The Thrill of the Orchestra, music of Beethoven and Copland, and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. To emphasize the importance of orchestration and instrumentation, the concert will also include a humorous re-orchestration of Romeo and Juliet, composed by GSO Resident Conductor Nathaniel Beversluis.
High School Night - January 19, 2012High School students can sign up for free tickets and parking for this special concert by sending their full name and school name to [email protected].
College Night - September 22, 2011For this selected concert, college students can sign up for free tickets and free parking. College students can register by sending an email with their full name and college name to [email protected]. This season’s College Night is a back to school special!
Student Tickets Students with ID can get $5 tickets to any Masterworks concert and $10 tickets to Pops series concerts. Tickets may be obtained with a valid student ID at Will Call on the night of the concert, or at the Greensboro Symphony Box Offi ce during regular hours.
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PreludesCome early and catch the Prelude! Preludes
are pre-concert presentations designed to
give context to the listening experience.
Speakers are music faculty members at
local colleges and universities. The Preludes
presenters come from a range of musical
backgrounds and have specialties in the
musical style of the following concert.
Preludes take place prior to Masterworks
series concerts. Thursday evening Preludes
start at 6:45 p.m. Saturday evening Preludes
begin at 7:00 p.m., and are joined by our
maestro and guest artists.
September: Dr. Gregory Carroll, UNCG
November: Dr. David Nelson, UNCG
January: Dr. Gregory Carroll, UNCG
February: Dr. Sonia Archer-Capuzzo
May: Dr. David Nelson, UNCG
Wells Fargo Music at Midday SeriesThe Music at Midday series includes nine
performances by Greensboro Symphony
chamber ensembles. The performances,
hosted by retirement communities and other
local venues, are free and open to the public.
Greensboro Symphony Youth OrchestraGSYO concerts are free and open to the public!
November 20, 2011, 4:00 p.m.Greensboro Day School, Sloan Theatre
February 19, 2012, 4:00 p.m.Greensboro College, Odell Auditorium
May 20 2012, 4:00 p.m.Greensboro Day School, Sloan Theatre
Beginning Strings at Peck Elementary Support by Lillian RauchThe Greensboro Symphony’s Beginning Strings Program began in 1998, and was established at Peck Elementary during the 2007-2008 school year. In the Beginning Strings Program, the Greensboro Symphony provides Guilford County elementary schools with string instruments and small group music lessons free of charge.
Key objectives of the program are to serve a segment of the community that needs greater access to instrumental music education, to nurture and develop students’ creative talents, and to prepare students for challenging opportunities in music and life.
Instruments are supplied and maintained by the Greensboro Symphony. Instructors for the program have been drawn from Greensboro Symphony musicians with signifi cant group teaching experience, string music education faculty from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music (UNCG), and UNCG graduate students in string music education. Graduate students teach in the program with the guidance of their faculty advisor.
The program continues to grow and sprout connections throughout the community. This year, a teaching assistant supported by the Music Academy of North Carolina will aid with the program. An after-school string orchestra is forming at Jackson Middle School, the school which many Peck graduates attend. The Sphinx Chamber Orchestra (description) will give a performance and clinic at Peck Elementary in October 2011.
High School Partnership Support by the Greensboro Symphony GuildThis exciting new program continues to grow. Over the course of each partnership, high school music students receive up-close performances by Greensboro Symphony musicians, specialized coaching sessions on orchestral music, and visits from Maestro Sitkovetsky and guest artists.
Following the in-school presentations and coaching sessions, the high school ensemble performs on stage prior to a Greensboro Symphony Masterworks concert. The high school musicians are invited to stay for the concert to hear their mentors perform.
The Greensboro Symphony has partnered with Ragsdale High School in 2008, Grimsley High School in 2009, and Weaver Academy and Northern Guilford in 2010. The GSO will work with the Page High School and Northwest Guilford High School Orchestras during the 2011-2012 school year.
Greensboro Symphony Youth OrchestraThe Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra (GSYO) enriches the lives of its participants by providing a professional environment for the study, preparation, and performance of music, serving the community as a whole by providing high quality, free of charge performances, and encouraging and advocating art, music, and music education in the Piedmont Triad region. The GSYO is an educational project directed and underwritten by the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. GSYO Music Director Nathaniel Beversluis leads the program into its 41st year during the 2011-2012 season.
The GSYO program includes multiple ensembles, with opportunities for everyone from young beginners to advanced high school students. In the past fi ve years, the most advanced ensemble has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and in Germany and Austria! GSYO members study and perform the best in orchestral music as they grow as musicians and make lasting friendships.
Interested in joining the GSYO? Come to the Open House Rehearsal: May 6 2012, 2:00-5:00 p.m., UNCG School of Music.
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SEPTEMBER 23UNCG School of Music
Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
Program NotesLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata No.6 in A major, Op.30Beethoven composed nine of his ten violin sonatas
between 1798 and 1803. These are works that fall
at the end of his fi rst stylistic period (relatively
conservative music), and the beginning of his second
period (becoming more adventurous). Notable in
the sonata performed tonight is the third movement
which is a theme and variations. Beethoven dedicated
this work to Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Piano Quartet in E fl at, Op.47For many years, Schumann wrote very little
chamber music. That changed in 1842 when he
decided to write chamber music for an entire year.
One of the resulting works was the piano quartet
performed tonight.
The quartet has four movements with the fi rst
being quite vigorous after a slow introduction. A
scherzo reminiscent of Mendelssohn follows. The
third movement is feelingful and romantic, and
some think that Schumann wrote this for his wife,
Clara. And the fi nale is fast with exuberant themes
and an energetic ending.
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENViolin Sonata No.6 in A major, Op.30
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Lukas Geniusas, piano
ROBERT SCHUMANNPiano Quartet E fl at, Op.47
Lukas Geniusas, piano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Diane Phoenix-Neal, viola
Beth Vanderborgh, cello
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NOVEMBER 11UNCG School of Music
Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
Program NotesGIUSEPPE TARTINI(1692-1770)
Violin Sonata in G Minor, “Devil‘s Trill”The “Devil’s Trill” is one of the most virtuosic
sonatas for violin. The Italian composer and violinist
said that the idea of the work came to him in a dream
in 1713 in which the devil made a pact with Tartini
for the composer’s soul. Accordingly, the devil gave
the composer everything Tartini desired, and then
the devil took the violin and played superbly. When
Tartini woke, he dedicated himself to creating music
as impressive as what he had heard in the dream.
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK(1841-1904)
Terzetto in C Major, Op.74The impetus for this trio came not from an
upcoming concert performance, but from a friendship
between the composer and an amateur violinist who
lived in the same building. Dvořák wanted a piece
in which his friend and his friend’s teacher would
play the violins and Dvořák himself to play the viola.
Unfortunately, the work was a little harder than the
amateur violinist could handle, so he then composed
his Bagatelles with an easier violin part.
JOHANNES BRAHMS(1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.100One of Brahms’s favorite retreats was to Lake
Thun, near Interlaken, Switzerland. In summer
1887, he went there with the intention of writing
works for small forces – songs for voice and piano,
and chamber music. It was during this stay that the
second of his three violin sonatas was composed.
The three-movement works is quite lyrical and
understated, without the heightened sense of drama
found in so much of Brahms’s music.
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Ray Chen, violin
Inara Zandmane, piano
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁKTerzetto
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Ray Chen, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
JOHANNES BRAHMSViolin Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.100
Ray Chen, violin
Inara Zandmane, piano
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Ray Chen, violin
Inara Zandmane, piano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
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JANUARY 22
Program NotesSERGEI RACHMANINOFF(1873-1943)
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op.19Rachmaninoff was one of the last in a line of
19th-century Russian composers known for their
romanticism in music. These composers included
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Mussorgsky.
Rachmaninoff ’s music is lyrical, often with expansive
melodies.
The Cello Sonata was completed in 1901 and was
fi rst performed by Anatoliy Brandukov, who also gave
the premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso,
performed on this week’s Masterworks concert. The
piano part is quite prominent in this sonata, perhaps
because the composer was a virtuoso pianist. Many
of the themes are fi rst introduced by the piano rather
than the cello. For these reasons, Rachmaninoff
sometimes preferred calling it a Sonata for Cello and
Piano.
CÉSAR FRANCK(1822-1890)
Piano Quintet in F MinorFranck was a Belgian-born composer, pianist and
organist who spent his adult life in Paris. At age
50, he became a Professor of Music at the Paris
Conservatoire. Perhaps his best known works are
the Symphony in D and the Violin Sonata.
The Piano Quintet was written in 1889 and 1890.
The fi rst performance was rather strange. Playing
the piano was Camille Saint-Saëns, who had not
seen the work before. (He was a gifted sight reader.)
As the piece progressed, it became clear to the
audience that Saint-Saëns liked the music less and
less. Once the quintet was fi nished, Franck went on
stage to congratulate the performers and to dedicate
the work to Saint-Saëns, who promptly walked off
the stage in a fi t of anger for having been involved
with the music in the fi rst place!
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFFCello Sonata
Sergey Antonov, cello
Inara Zandmane, piano
CÉSAR FRANCKPiano Quintet
Inara Zandmane, piano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Janet Orenstein, violin
Simon Ertz, viola,
Sergey Antonov, cello
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Inara Zandmane, piano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Janet Orenstein, violin
Simon Ertz, viola
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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 67
FEBRUARY 24UNCG School of Music
Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
Program NotesSERGEI PROKOFIEV(1891-1953)
Quintet, Op.39Most quintets are for like instruments, all winds or
strings, with piano sometimes included. Prokofi ev’s
Quintet, Op.39 is a hybrid with two winds (oboe and
clarinet) and three strings (violin, viola, and bass
rather than cello). In 1923, a touring ballet company,
with only these instruments, asked Prokofi ev to write
a ballet score, and the composer took this opportunity
to write the quintet on tonight’s program.
The quintet has six movements, starting with a
theme and variations, and then alternating slow and
fast movements.
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK(1841-1904)
Serenade in D Minor, Op.44Dvořák’s Serenade, Op.44 is one of the
masterpieces in the repertoire for chamber winds.
It was written in 1878 and premiered that year in an
all-Dvořák concert with the composer conducting.
The work owes an inspiration to Mozart’s Serenade,
K.361 (370a), the “Gran Partita” with its grandeur
and similar instrumentation for wind instruments.
The fi rst movement begins with a stately march. A
lyrical theme follows and the movement concludes
with a return of the opening music. The second
movement sounds as if it will be a graceful minuet,
but the “trio” is anything but graceful. Here, Dvořák
relies on his Czech roots and gives us a fast Bohemian
dance called a “furiant” with lots of accents and
cross rhythms. The only thing missing here is a
tambourine! The movement ends with a return of
the more refi ned minuet. The third movement begins
lyrically, and, after an impassioned central section,
ends with the opening music.
Each of the three fi rst movements have three
sections with the opening music returning after a
contrasting section. In the fi nale, Dvořák takes this
one step further. After an energetic opening and
lyrical “second” melody, the composer brings back
not the opening music of the movement, but the
opening theme of the entire piece in all its grandeur.
A rousing coda ends the work.
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SERGEI PROKOFIEVQuintet Op.39 for violin, viola,
double bass, oboe and clarinet
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
John Spuller, double bass
Ashley Barret, oboe
Kelly Burke, clarinet
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁKSerenade for winds D minor Op.44 for
2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns,
cello and double bass
Ashley Barret, oboe
Anna Lampidis, oboe
Kelly Burke, clarinet
Ed Riley, clarinet
Carol Bernstorf, bassoon
Michael Burns, bassoon
Bob Campbell, horn
Lynn Beck, horn
Tim Papenbrock, horn
Alex Johnston, cello
John Spuller, double bass
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
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Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin and conductor
Scott Rawls, viola
Kelly Burke, clarinet
Edwin Riley, clarinet
Jennifer Alexandra Johnston, cello
John Spuller, double bass
Carol Bernstorf, bassoon
Michael Burns, bassoon
Ashley Barret, oboe
Anna Lampidis, oboe
Tim Papenbrock, horn
Bob Campbell, horn
Lynn Beck, horn
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GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 69
MAY 4UNCG School of Music
Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
Program Notes
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH(1685-1750)
Trio Sonata from Das Musikalische Opfer (The Musical Off ering), BWV 1079
In May 1747, Frederick II of Prussia (“Frederick
the Great”) and Johann Sebastian Bach met at the
King’s residence in Potsdam. Frederick had written
a long, chromatic theme, and then challenged the
great composer to improvise a six-voice fugue on
it. Bach’s response was to write such a fugue and
send it to Frederick. Two months later, the master
Baroque composer published a set of pieces based
on this theme, entitled The Musical Off ering. These
works included a number of fugues and canons, and
the four-movement trio sonata performed tonight.
JOHANNES BRAHMS(1833-1897)
String Sextet No.1 in B fl at major, Op.18Brahms’s fi rst string sextet was written between
1858 and 1860 and was fi nished during a summer
vacation where the composer was staying on the
Elbe River. It is an early work – Brahms was 27 at the
time of its premiere in Hanover – and comes from
the same period as his two orchestral serenades and
fi rst piano concerto.
Noteworthy in the sextet is the instrumentation
of pairs of violins, violas, and cellos. This allowed
Brahms the ability to create sounds from a string
chamber ensemble that could not be found in the
more traditional string quartet (two violins, viola,
cello). An example of this is the opening melody,
which is scored for viola and two cellos. And in
the slow movement, Brahms gives us music that is
weighted towards the lower sounds possible with
two violas and two cellos.
Brahms also pays homage to another German-
born composer who, like Brahms was to do later in
his life, moved to Vienna: Beethoven. The scherzo
of the sextet is almost directly modeled after the
parallel movement in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
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Debra Pivetta, fl ute
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Alex Ezerman, cello
Andre Lash, harpsichord
JOHANNES BRAHMSString Sextet No.1 in B fl at major, Op.18
for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
John Fadial, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Noah Hock, viola
Brooks Whitehouse, cello
Alex Ezerman, cello
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Debra Pivetta, fl ute
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ABOUT THE GUEST CONDUCTOR
Bruce KieslingBruce Kiesling is currently the Conductor of the
Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s community youth orchestra initiative and also serves as the Music Director of the Tulare County Symphony in California’s Central Valley. His background encompasses conducting, harpsichord performance, theater, and piano work in both classical and popular genres. Originally from Canton, Ohio, Dr. Kiesling received degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Miami (Florida) and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Bruce spent eight years as Resident Conductor for the Greensboro Symphony, where he led classical concerts, the Holiday Concert, the Gospel Concert (featuring Curt Karr, Richard Smallwood and Wintley Phipps), the highly successful education concerts, and many appearances with the Greensboro Symphony Pops. He served as Music Director and Conductor for the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra, having led the orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and Carnegie Hall.
The other aspect of Bruce’s careers is that of an active and busy composer. He has provided music for more than twenty productions, including the feature fi lms “Wesley,” “Seven Days of Yellow,” “Di Passaggio,” “Foresight” and the award winning shorts “1915” and “Stormy Weather.
ABOUT THE LEAD VOCALIST, BAND ARRANGEMENTS
Bob StillmanThe Sweet Baby James concert stars the multi-
talented and multifaceted Bob Stillman who has lit up some of New York’s best-known stages as writer, musician and actor. He’s been nominated twice for Tony Awards---fi rst as actor, composer and onstage pianist in “Dirty Blonde,” and later as one of the songwriters for “Urban Cowboy.” Bob has brought his uniquely soulful original songs to such popular New York venues as Joe’s Pub, The Cutting Room, Wilson’s and Elaine’s. His just released debut CD “Come Down Angel,” co-produced with Tom Corwin has been steadily attracting listeners, and was selected as one of host Zoe Montana’s “Essentials” on radioio.com’s Acoustic channel. Featuring solid grooves, soaring melodies and biting lyrics, Bob’s songs combine folk-rock, jazz, pop and classical infl uences to create a style that is deeply personal, intimate, sophisticated and emotionally rich. Last season Bob co-starred with Christine Ebersole in the acclaimed Broadway musical “Grey Gardens.”
Born in New York City, Bob studied piano and composition at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools beginning at age 9. He went on to graduate with honors in music from Princeton. His other New York stage credits include Molina in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (opposite Vanessa Williams), and the dying singer/songwriter in the cult off -Broadway hit “The Last Session.”
ABOUT THE FEATURED VOCALIST
Connie JamesConnie James is a classically trained singer with
a degree in music from the University of South Carolina. She has been nominated for a Pixie Award for Best Song/Soundtrack in a Motion Picture for the song “Three Words”, which she co-wrote and recorded with Composer/Pianist Onaje Allen Gumbs, for the short subject fi lm “Whoa”. The fi lm received the Angel Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003 and was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival last year. As an actress, she has landed roles on NBC’s 9 Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit” and “Homicide: Life on the Street”.
ABOUT THE BAND
Tim McLaff erty (drums), the son of a painter and sculptor, grew up in a free thinking environment where he began playing drums at age four. In the last 20 years he’s played in over a dozen Broadway shows, his favorites have been Urinetown and Grey Gardens. Also an active poet, his poems have been set by composers Mick Rossi and Scot Munson. myspace.com/timmclaff erty
Stephen Benson (guitar) has performed and or recorded with people as diverse as Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Natalie Cole, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Lukes and the American SymphonyOrchestra. He currently performs on Broadway in the orchestra pits of The Lion King, Chicago, Mary Poppins and Hair.
Brian Cassier (bass) has performed in numerous chamber music ensembles, chamber orchestras and orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia with such noted artists as José Carreras, James DePriest, Lucas Foss, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich and Robert Shaw, and with ensembles such as The American Symphony Orchestra, and The Orchestra of St. Lukes. Brian has been orchestra contractor / music coordinator for ABC, CBS, Atlantic, Ligeti Artists and Warner/Electra.
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Debbie GravitteOne of Broadway’s biggest personalities, Debbie Gravitte has enjoyed a
varied career, taking her from the Broadway Stage to the concert stage and
beyond. She won the prestigious Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a
Musical for her performance in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, along with a Drama
Desk Award Nomination and New York Showstopper Award. After making her Broadway debut in the
original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, she went on to appear in: Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award
Nomination), Blues In The Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Zorba, Chicago, and Les Miserables.
Debbie has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York’s Rainbow and Stars, to London’s
Pizza On The Park, and back home again to Atlantic City, where she’s had the honor of performing with Jay
Leno, Harry Anderson, and the legendary George Burns. She recently toured with Keith Lockhart And The
Boston Pops, and has sung with numerous symphony orchestras, including the National Symphony (with
Marvin Hamlisch), Peter Nero and The Philly Pops, The NY Pops with The Legendary Skitch Henderson,
Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Utah Symphony, St. Louis, Houston,
Dallas and San Diego Symphonies.
Anne RunolfssonAnne Runolfsson is one of those rare artists whose unique versatility has
allowed her a distinguished career not only in the theater but also in recording
studios, intimate cabaret spaces, and concert halls throughout the world. The
New York Times proclaimed, “Ms. Runolfsson has a fl exible virtuosity, between
ethereal melodiousness and piercing big-moment resonance.”
She recently returned from London where she was honored to sing with the
great Dame Julie Andrews. In 2007 she completed a 2 year run on Broadway
as “Carlotta Giudacelli” in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. Hal Prince referred to her
performance as a “revelation.” Prior to that she made a splash in Victor/Victoria where she had the honor
of standing by for Dame Julie Andrews, and Liza Minelli. She performed the title role over 120 times to
great acclaim and went on to recreate the role in the National Tour which began in Seattle and Houston.
Other Broadway and National Tour credits include: the role of Gretta Conroy in James Joyce’s The Dead,
Fantine in Les Miserable, Roxane in Cyrano-The Musical, Lili in The Secret Garden, and
Aspects of Love.
Sal VivianoSal Viviano, a Detroit native, began his career opening for the Comedy Greats of
the last generation in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. Sal made his Broadway
debut in The Three Musketeers (1984), followed-by starring roles in the Broadway
hits Romance/Romance, City of Angels, Falsettos, The Life, and The Full Monty. Off -
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portrayal in Sunday In The Park With George (Washington, D.C.), having also appeared regionally at more
than two-dozen theatres, nationwide. In New York, he most recently starred as Billy Flynn in the smash hit
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have
set them down in notes.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 75
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ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST
John PaganoProvidence, Rhode Island native John Pagano
is a truly a singer’s singer. As the lead vocalist
in the legendary Burt Bacharch’s band for more
than 14 years, John has traveled extensively,
performing in major concert venues and with
numerous symphony orchestras. In addition to his
ongoing association with Mr. Bacharach, John has
collaborated with Grammy Award winning writer-
producer Barry Mann, renowned composer-
producer George Duke, George Howard, Elvis
Costello, Garth Brooks, Whitney Houston, Faith
Hill, Wynona Judd and David Cassidy. Along the
way, John’s voice caught the ear of Jerry Seinfeld,
for whom he opened shows in both Las Vegas and
Atlantic City. John’s fi lm credits include the Adam
Sandler fi lm CLICK and Jim Carrey’s Yes Man.
John is featured on ten albums including his
recent solo release Pure Imagination which
he recorded with a 40-piece orchestra at
the legendary Capitol Recording Studio A in
Hollywood, California. During the recording
sessions, John transitioned eff ortlessly from
vocalist to instrumentalist to producer, working
closely with session players that have performed
with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and
Chet Baker. Having his friend and mentor, Burt
Bacharach, play on and produce cuts on the album
further enriched the experience for John.
Headlining his fi rst solo symphonic pops
show, featuring the classic love songs of Pure
Imagination, is a dream come true and John looks
forward to performing it for audiences across
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Concert ProgramLET’S FALL IN LOVEACT I
Orchestra OvertureLet’s Fall In LoveCole Porter
Time After TimeJules Styne / Sammy Cahn)
Night And Day Cole Porter
This Guys in Love With YouBurt Bacharach/ Hal David
Pure ImaginationLeslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley
All My TomorrowsSammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen
Love Is The Tender TrapSammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen
SmileCharles Chaplin
Act IIOrchestra OvertureSong For YouLeon Russell
Ain’t That A Kick In The HeadSammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen
Talk To MeRudy Vallee / Eddie Snyder / Stanley Kahan
Call Me IrresponsibleSammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen
Wives & LoversBurt Bacharach / Hal David
Any Day NowBurt Bacharach / Bob Hilliard
All The WaySammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen
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Candice Nicole began her relationship with Disney over a decade ago when she was fi rst hired by Disney as a child soloist, so performing her favorite Disney classics with such talented musicians is a dream come true. Candice has been featured on numerous occasions as the guest artist/headliner with the California Symphony and Reno Philharmonic. Some of her work in theatre, fi lm, television and voice-overs includes Young Buff y on Buff y the Vampire Slayer, Toff ee in Zombie Prom, and Barbie: The Island Princess. Broadway: Closing National Touring Company of the world renowned musical Les Misérables (Fantine U/S), L.A. Premiere: How the Grinch Stole Christ-mas (Scallops Who). Regional highlights: Footloose (Ariel), 1776 (Martha Jeff erson), Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Grease (Sandy), Peter Pan (Wendy, opposite American Idol’s Adam Lambert), Cinderella (Cinderella). Starring roles in West Coast staged readings include Roxane in The Man Who Would Be King opposite Broadway’s Marc Kudisch, Abby in the hilarious comedy Neurosis (by Allan Rice, a writer on The New Adventures of Old Christine), plus new musicals at The La Jolla Playhouse and The Festival for New Musicals. Proud Actor’s Equity Member, Candice thanks Ted Ricketts for this opportunity and her loving family for their support.
Whitney Claire Kaufman recently completed two years with the North American Tour of the Broadway smash-hit Mamma Mia! (Ensemble, Understudy for Sophie and Lisa). Her performance as Sophie gar-nered rave reviews from the Boston Globe. Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacifi c Symphony Orchestra, Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra, and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Peaseblossom), Marisol (June), The Los Angeles Theatre Ensembles’ production of Wounded, as well as many other theatrical productions. TV credits include General Hospital and the hit ABC series Modern Family. As both a singer and voice-over performer in fi lm and television, Whitney has been heard in productions including That Championship Season, The Secret of NiMH 2, and two MGM animated series: All Dogs Go to Heaven and Noddy. She recently recorded songs written by Oscar-winning composer Dimitri Tiomkin. Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman Univer-sity with a BFA in Theater Performance. Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid, with Cinderella as a close second.
Andrew Johnson is a Disney kid at heart and is humbled and honored to share the music and magic from the stage! He has toured all over the world as a lead soloist and dancer in nine diff erent countries. He most recently was a performer at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards with Florence and the Machine. This past year he played Benny in the fi rst professional southern California production of RENT and Asher in Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities’ production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Andrew’s other professional credits include Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (Joseph), God-spell (Jesus), and Pippin (Lead Player). He has also understudied Brian Stokes Mitchell as Emile in Tarbell’s South Pacifi c at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. He was a fi nalist in 2004 and 2005 with the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards, as a Musical Theatre/Pop vocalist, and he received an Inland Theatre Award nomination for his performance in Riverside Civic Light Opera’s produc-tion of Ragtime (role?). Andrew has shared the stage with singer/actresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu, and Broadway stars Laura Bell Bundy and Jodi Benson.
Aaron Phillips is very excited to be part of this wonderful production. Aaron is an Ovation Award nominated actor/singer, proud member of Actor’s Equity, and just fi nished the 2nd National Tour of Click, Clack, Moo. Aaron had his New York theatre debut last year as Felix in the new hit rock-opera The New Hopeville Comics, written by Nate Weida. Past theatre credits include: Jekyll and Hyde (John Utterson), Batboy: The Musical (Batboy/Edgar), Songs for a New World , and Les Misérables (Foreman/Combeferre). Opera credits include: La Boheme with the Greensboro Opera Company, conducted by Valery Ryvkin, Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King) and Lakme (Frederic) by Delibes. Aaron recently appeared in a staged reading of The Bone Wars (O’Conner) with the prestigious New York playwright group, Youngbloods. He is also an accomplished voice-over talent and can be heard in video games such as Red Dead Redemption and Deadmund’s Quest, as well as Lord of the Rings. He is a man of many voices for commercials, cartoons, and music sessions everywhere. Aaron has been a Disney fan his entire life, and is happy to help bring this music to fans of all ages. As a graduate of the school of music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Aaron is especially pleased to be performing again in front of a Greensboro audience.
Concert ProgramACT 1Disney Classics Overture The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Colors of the Wind Beauty and the Beast Suite I Wanna Be Like You Mary Poppins Medley
ACT 2Hunchback of Notre Dame Suite Aladdin Medley Pirates of the Caribbean The Lion King Song Suite It’s a Small World
The United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro is proud to support the artists, programming
and music education activities of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra.
Thanks to the generosity of this community, the United Arts Council continues as the major
source of arts grant funding for the Symphony, most recently awarding a two-year grant of
$186,000 between now and 2013. Since 2000, UAC has provided more than $1.4 million in
financial commitments to the Symphony through our annual grant programs.
But the UAC does more than just provide grants. This season, the United Arts Council facilitated
the commission and world premiere of Queen Anne’s Revenge on behalf of the Symphony —
written by Grammy Award-winning composer Mark O’Connor — thanks to support from
American Express. The UAC also played an instrumental role in bringing Wicked Divas to
Greensboro. Both of these efforts are part of the UAC’s new arts & culture festival 17DAYS,
which was designed as a collaborative effort to fuel attendance and showcase the wonderful arts
assets of this community ... like the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra.
To learn more about the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro and how you can help us
support the health and vitality of our community, visit us online at www.UACarts.org, or call us
weekdays at 336.373.7523. Thank you for your support, and best wishes from all of us for a
successful 2011-2012 Season of Winners at the Symphony!
United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro – Thomas Philion, President & CEO
17DAYS17 Days is a unique collaborative celebration brought to you by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro
with Greensboro’s top artists, presenters, producing organizations, museums and venues.
BURLINGTON
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Williams High School
For every Second and Third Grader in
Alamance County
For the past ten years, every 2nd and 3rd grader of Alamance County has enjoyed the Educational Concerts presented by the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. These concerts have touched the lives of more than 32,000 students.
Fox8 Holiday Concertin Burlington
Sunday, December 11, 20112:00 pm
Williams High School
Nathaniel Beversluis, conductorSee bio on page 19.
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Admission to the concert is free with a donation of a non-perishable food item to benefit the Salvation Army.
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 79
BURLINGTON OUTREACH
TEMPLE EMANUEL’SOpen Doors Music SeriesOpen Doors Music SeriesOpen Doors Music Series
December 11, 2011February 12 & April 1, 2012 at 7:30pm
featuring
Russian Jewish Concert pianist Elena KushchnerovaElena KushchnerovaElena Kushchnerova
Harold Schonberg, the late music critic of the NY Times dubbed her “a pianist who grabs the
Imagination.” Her 1997 Prokofiev CD has been listed as one of the 50 best recorded piano performances.
Elena will be accompanied byElena will be accompanied byElena will be accompanied byBrooks Whitehouse on cello & Janet Orenstein on violin.Brooks Whitehouse on cello & Janet Orenstein on violin.Brooks Whitehouse on cello & Janet Orenstein on violin.
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The Music Center has many musical opportunities to offer Greensboro residents and those from surrounding areas.
We currently have 15 community youth and adult ensembles for you to join. You do not have to be a professional musician to join these ensembles.
We offer private instruction on a variety of musical instruments and a comprehensive Kindermusikprogram.
MUSEP Concerts are held every Sunday, June through August, featuring a wide variety of music from jazz to classical to bluegrass and more!
OPUS Concerts are held throughout the year from October through May and feature community performing ensembles from within The Music Center.
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Nathaniel Beversluis, conductorSee bio on page 19.
Appearances by:Summit Figure Skating Club of GreensboroBill FlynnNeill McNeill and Julie Luck
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Portrait Innovations.................................. 40
Quaintance–Weaver
Restaurants & Hotels.......................18 & 19
Randolph Oil Company, Inc................... 44
Reynolda House .........................................32
Rice Toyota .................................................. 14
River Landing at Sandy Ridge................ 64
Ruth’s Chris .................................................74
Schell, Bray, Aycock,
Abel & Livingston ......................................36
Schiffman’s Jewelers................................... 6
Senior Transitions ..................................... 40
Senn Dunn Insurance ...............................34
Shamrock Environmental Corp................11
Shores Fine Dry Cleaning .........................17
Simmons, Severance and Chowning
Wealth Management .............................. 80
Spine & Scoliosis Specialists ................. 68
Stearns Financial Services Group..........42
Temple Emanuel ....................................... 80
The Art Shop...............................................34
The Cleaning Authority............................74
The Hub, Ltd................... Inside front cover
The Music Center..................................... 80
The Umstead
Hotel & Spa .....................Inside back cover
Trek Bicycle................................................. 30
Triad Stage...................................................26
Twin Lakes ...................................................76
UBS Financial Services, Inc. ................... 64
UNCG School of Music............................32
United Arts Council
Of Greater Greensboro ............................78
Wells Fargo Advisors................Back cover
Wells Fargo Wealth Management........62
Wellspring Retirement Community ..... 10
WFDD 88.5................................................ 84
Wind Rose LLC............................................. 3
Windsor Jewelers ..................................... 20
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice ..... 68
Women’s Hospital.................................... 30
WUNC ..........................................................24
YMCA .......................................................... 30
Zaki Oriental Rugs.................................... 66
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