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PROGRAMVltava (The Moldau) Bedrich Smetana

Concerto Elegiaco (Concerto No. 3) Leo Brouwer Tranquillo; Più mosso Interlude; Finale (Toccata)

Justin Hoke, guitar

I N T E R M I S S I O N

Suite from the film The Gadfly Dmitri Shostakovich Overture Introduction Barrel-Organ Waltz Nocturne

Kathy Meyer, violoncello Galop Romance

Beverly Andrews, violin Folk Festival

Music underwritten by Richard and Diane Trubia

Concert Sponsored by Wilmington Health

Saturday April 22, 2017, 7:30 p.m.Wilson Center, Cape Fear Community College

Justin Hoke, guitarSteven Errante, conductor

Ushers are Wilson Center volunteers.

The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra logo was created by Wilmington artist Claude Howell in 1973.

Tonight’s performance utilizes the Ruth Funk Orchestra Shell named in Ruth’s memory by a gift from the Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall.

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Bedrich Smetana1824 - 1884

Vltava (The Moldau) 1874

Bedrich Smetana was born in a small Bohemian town in what is now the southern part of the Czech Republic. At a very early age, the musical prodigy learned to play both violin and piano, and was first taught by his father, a brewmaster and amateur musician. His musical development was rapid, and as a young man he opened his own music school with the encouragement and help of Franz Liszt. It was Liszt who had greatly impressed the younger composer with his dramatic program music. As Smetana wrote to Liszt: “I cannot describe to you the soul-stirring impression your music has made on me. Such has become my credo.”

Smetana became fired up with a fierce patriotism and embarked on the cause of creating music based on Czech legends, history, geography, customs, and dances. A provincial theater for Czech music was established in 1861, for which Smetana composed a series of native-language Czech operas based on Czech themes. In 1874, at age 50, the composer filled a cycle of six symphonic poems called Má Vlast (My Fatherland ) with folk legends and rhythms of Bohemian songs and dances. Fate intervened; during this time of a rapid outpouring of nationalistic themes, he became afflicted with total deafness. Although he still composed in a frenzy, soon came a deteriorating mind, followed by eventual death in a mental institution at age 60.

Among the six symphonic tone poems in Má vlast is Smetana’s most famous composition, “Vltava” (in German, “The Moldau”), a majestic portrait of the 270-mile river in land-locked Czechoslovakia. The tone poem takes the listener on a sensory journey down a breath-taking natural river, as expressed in musical imitation of the sights and sounds a traveler experiences. Completed in 1874, and still under the strong influence of Franz Liszt’s program music, the work was written amidst a 100-year Bohemian struggle for democracy and freedom from the Austrian-Hungarian empire.

Smetana wrote his own preface to the tone poem as follows:

“The composition describes the course of the Vltava, starting from the two small springs, the Cold and Warm Vltava, to the unification of both streams into 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 fairies 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 (Upper Castle), and then

majestically vanishes into the distance, ending at the Labe (or Elbe, in German).”

Leo Brouwer1939 –

Concerto Elegiaco (Concerto No. 3) 1985

Juan Leovigido Brouwer Mezquida (Leo) was born in 1939 in Havana, Cuba. Descended from a long and wide line of musicians and drawn to the sounds of Flamenco music he embarked on a largely self-learned experience of skills necessary for the guitar.

His physician and amateur classical guitarist father took over the direction of this musically-determined boy, even though he didn’t read music and was taught by rote. At the end of 1952, Leo’s formal guitar instruction was transferred over to renowned Cuban guitar pedagogue, Isaac Nicola. It was Nicola who opened the young student’s eyes and ears to Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods of music history, and it was at this time when Leo’s compositional bent became alive. What he wanted to do was “fill the gaps” in Cuban music history and repertoire, creating compositions that emphasized his Afro-Cuban music heritage.

After his debut as a guitar performer at age 17, he was awarded a scholarship to study composition at The Juilliard School, and followed this with both a teaching and composition-studying position at Hartt College in Connecticut. He claimed that the training at both programs was the only formal instruction he had received as a composer-to-be.

Brouwer then returned to his beloved Cuba, where under the new communist regime, he became a strong advocate of Cuban nationalism, unquestioningly loyal to Castro’s principles of communism. With governmental approval, he became globally known as a Cuban music ambassador of his own works and those of other non-European origin. The composer’s personal catalogue lists at least 200 works. Brouwer also has over 60 film scores to his credit (including Like Water for Chocolate), has established a radio station network, played in chamber orchestras, and re-energized the Symphony Orchestra of Cuba. Now approaching his eighties, he continues on the concert circuit abroad and remains an active composer and arranger of music from his family home in Cuba.

The Concerto Elegiaco (Concerto No. 3) was written for guitarist Julian Bream. The halting two-note theme first heard in the low strings helps set the elegiac tone of the work. The low notes at the end of the First Movement (Tranquillo) fade into the Interlude, in which a rhythmically free, improvisatory guitar line is woven around held notes in the strings. This proceeds without pause to the Finale, an energetic Toccata in which rapidly repeated notes are alternately played by the guitar, strings, and percussion. Very near the end, the halting, dirge-like notes of the First Movement return before a final burst of energy from the guitar and orchestra.

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Dmitri Shostakovich1906 - 1975

Suite from the film The Gadfly 1955

Shostakovich’s musical parents realized that by age 5, their son was unusually gifted. They had taken him to a performance of one of Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas, and noted that he was singing several of the opera arias afterward. Still, the young child’s musical training was delayed until age 9. His conservatory graduate mother did not believe in structured musical training before then.

During Shostakovich’s first year of piano instruction, he began composing. The spirit of the most recent Russian Revolution inspired his musical writing, and he responded by such pieces as Hymn to Liberty and the Funeral March for the Victims of the Revolution.

As a teenager, he was employed to accompany silent films in the theatre, and would become so absorbed in the screen activity that he would forget to play. Although fired as piano accompanist, he was permanently hooked on movies and the eventual soundtrack writing that followed.

At age 13, the boy entered the Leningrad Conservatory, where the Conservatory director and composer Alexander Glazunov claimed, “the boy’s gifts are comparable to Mozart’s. If asked, I would give up my food rations for him.” Shostakovich rose quickly to top recognition in the Soviet Union, after public praise for his Symphony No. 1, which had been a graduation requirement. His subsequent career was spent under the regimes of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev, and he had to weather the irrational and unpredictable winds of official opinion. Criticism mostly centered on his compositional endeavors as not having enough mass appeal. Music needed only to be simple, tuneful, optimistic, and glorifying of Soviet ideals.

Although remembered principally for large-scale orchestral works and concertos, Shostakovich’s output for the big screen was prolific. Between 1919 and l970, Shostakovich wrote more than 30 movie sound tracks, which tend to be light, simple, charming additions to the plots.

The 1955 film The Gadfly is a boisterous affair, a swashbuckling costume drama depicting the life of a Russian hero in 1830’s Italy. The setting gave the composer the excuse to borrow musical ideas from Italian Romantic composers (Verdi, Bellini), and to write pseudo-Neapolitan songs and folk tunes. Most famous are the catchy “Galop” and the lovely “Romance,” but the other five numbers of the suite hold their own in their surprisingly tonal and rhythmically straight-forward melodic style.

Researched and written by Joan Olsson

2016-2017 Youth Orchestra Season Sponsored by

FREE FAMILY CONCERTSunday, April 30th, 4:00 p.m. at Kenan Auditorium.

Concert Sponsored by Southeastern Nephrology Associates.In memory of Dr. Gary Hyman

Steven Errante, conductor

Junior StringsJane Tierney, director

Girls’ Choir of WilmingtonSandy Errante, director

Featured soloist is violinist Aria DiLoreto, winner of the 40th annual Student Concerto Competition Junior Division.

Bring the kids and introduce them to the joy and excitement of an orchestra concert. Free tickets are available at the door.

For more information on youth education programs visit www.wilmingtonsymphony.org

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CONDUCTOR ∞ Steven Errante

VIOLIN I * Beverly Andrews, ConcertmasterConcertmaster Chair Permanently Endowed in Memory of Nancy H. McAllister Andrew Bonner Matthew Evans Lisa Gattuso Cynthia Graham Alexei Mejouev Christine Meyer Katherine Meyer Jane Radack Lindi WangAssistant Concertmaster Chair Endowed in Memory of Miriam Warshauer

Violin I – 2nd Stand, Outside Chair Endowed by the Robert W. Austin Family

VIOLIN II Hannah Compton Christa Faison Jessica Landes Shirley Lebo Ian Livingston Roberta Mouheb Jorge Rodriguez Ochoa Laura Thomas * Jane Tierney

VIOLA Derrick Foskey Sarah Gardner * Carrie Jackson Brooke Mahanes Marscia Martinez-Mendoza * Bernard McWilliams Diane Stephens Brent TrubiaAssistant Principal Viola Chair Endowed in Memory of Katherine Hoyt

CELLO Rad Bunting John Illingworth * Kathy Meyer Tanner Myers Robert Nosow Mike Pope Sarah Stoloff Anthony Williams Greg Zack Kimberly Zimmerman

BASS Owen Burwell Stuart McLemore Samuel McMillan * Karl Marzolf

FLUTES Amanda Taylor Beth Thompson *∞ Mary Jo White

OBOES + Jennifer Muehrcke * Rebecka Rose Amy Sandlin

CLARINETS * Coleman Burgess Pamela Merritt Laura York

BASSOONS Chris Akins Jim Boston

HORN * Kim Adams Crystal Britton Andrew Gore Kimberle McGill

TRUMPET Robby Anderson Carlton Howard * Jake Yates

TROMBONE David Goodwin Mike Lopez * Mark Munger

TUBA Max Wang

TIMPANI *∞ John Rack

PERCUSSION Dacey Bell Melanie Aman Steve Petrucci Erven Alexander TomlinPercussion Section Chair Endowed in Memory of Clyde and Milton Rutledge

HARP * Christina Brier

PIANO/CELESTE Rad Bunting

* Principal+ Associate Principal- Assistant Principal Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra member∞ UNCW Faculty

CONDUCTOR'S CIRCLE: Special thanks to the Wilson Center staff and volunteer ushers; UNCW Dept. of Music; Keith and Kathie Green, photography; Fairfield Inn & Suites – Wilmington / Wrightsville Beach; Beverly Andrews, Jane Tierney and Kathy Meyer, rehearsal preparation.

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2016-2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORSExecutive CommitteeKaren Smith, President

Marva Robinson, Vice-PresidentMary Hummel, Treasurer

Gaile Zack, SecretaryMarian Hills, Immediate Past President

Bob Austin, Member-at-largeTim Ford, Member-at-large

Robert Roer, Member-at-largeRobin Robinson, Member-at-large

John Stike, Member-at-large

DirectorsBunnie Bachman

Jane BirnbachSally Brauer

Lesa BroadheadS. Clayton Callaway, Jr.

Rick CatlinCarol Ellis

Steven Errante, conductorJames FaisonPeggy Higgins

Rosemary KlineRalph Mercorella

Kathy MeyerJoy Murrell

Joanne NewtonFletcher NorrisSarah PetrucciAlice Razzano

William RemeleCarl Samet

Richard TrubiaRandy Trull

Lorraine WestermarkOwen WexlerDena WhalenRonnie Wise

Ronna Zimmer

STAFFArtistic

Steven Errante, Wilmington Symphony and Youth Orchestra Conductor

Shirley Lebo, Orchestra Manager/ Music Librarian

Bob Norem, Youth Orchestra Manager/Music Librarian

Jane Tierney, Junior Strings Director

BusinessReed M. Wallace, Executive Director

Joelle Thomas, BookkeeperNicole Thompson, Marketing and

Development Assistant

Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Conductors

Mr. William F. Adcock, Jr., 1971-1982Dr. Joe Hickman, 1982-1986

Dr. Steven Errante, 1986-

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tonight’s soloist

Justin Hoke is an active soloist, chamber musician, and educator based in Wilmington, North Carolina. He has been featured as a soloist on classical and electric guitar with the Panama City Orchestra, Florida State University Orchestra, and

the Appalachian State University Guitar Orchestra and currently performs throughout the region as a member of the Cypress Duo and the North Carolina Guitar Quartet. His debut solo album Open Sky was released in late 2015 to superlative reviews, (“Superbly played… very highly recommended” –Marvin J. Ward, CVNC.org).

Justin graduated summa cum laude from UNCW in 2007 with a Bachelor of Music in classical and jazz guitar performance, studying with Robert Nathanson and Bob Russell. He received his Master of Music degree from Appalachian State University where he studied with Douglas James and his Doctorate of Musical Arts in classical guitar performance from Florida State University where he studied with Bruce Holzman.

His awards include first prize in the 2012 Florida State University Doctoral Concerto Competition, Florida State University graduate teaching assistantship 2010-2013, top prize in the 2010 Appalachian Guitarfest International Competition, and the William F. Adcock scholarship at UNCW 2006-2007. He has previously served as a guitar instructor at Florida State University, Tallahassee Community College, Appalachian State University, and Emory and Henry College.

Dr. Hoke joined the University of North Carolina Wilmington music faculty in 2013 where he teaches classical guitar and music theory.

20th Annual Wilmington SymphonyGolf Tournament

Country Club of LandfallNicklaus Course – Ocean/Marsh

Monday, June 5, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

To enter or sponsor, visit “Special Events” at www.wilmingtonsymphony.org or call 791-9262 today!

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VIRTUOSO ($5,000–9,999)AnonymousBarry and Janet BurkholderBill and Mary Jo Cameron

PACESETTER ($3,000-4,999)Anonymous

BENEFACTOR ($1,000–2,999)AnonymousBob AustinMarcelle L. AustinGail BerryRick and Janice CatlinSandra de Holl Hilda DillDr. Carol EllisBetty and Val FischerRonald and Marilyn Gunther *Alex and Nora HargroveMarian HillsJoseph and Eleanor JamesAnn LongleyLori and Buzz McManusClint and Kathy MeyerFletcher and Janis NorrisFrances ParkerCarmine RotundaEmily SloanDoug and Karen SmithDr. John R. StikeRichard and Diane TrubiaMelinda Johansson and Reed Wallace*Hans and Lorraine WestermarkIgor and Samantha WestraMat and Pat WhitePeter and Gaile ZackRonna and Herbert Zimmer

GRAND PATRON ($500–999)Beverly AndrewsAnonymousCathy BarlowRalph and Pamela BradleyGeoff and Lesa BroadheadLawrence S. CraigeWilliam and Jean CredleNicholas and Lori Anne DavisMary HawesAndy and Hathia HayesWilliam and Trudy HolubPaul and Liz HosierIan and Margaret HunterSteven KleinJustine LerchRobert and Harriett LowethJoseph and Matilda MarcheseDorothy MarshallRandall P. White and Victoria D. MatthewsMark and Anna Maynard

Russell and Judith NollRobert and Lucy ShermanCory SmithLeon and Deborah SochaEugene and Marian SpagnoliLeonard Stein Janice StrattonRaiford Trask, Jr.Randolph TrullRonnie Dale WiseGreg and Cassie Zack

PATRON ($250–499)Wilbur AilingJames and Nancy AndreJohn and Elaine AndrewsAnonymousAnonymousAnn BadtBoyd and Rebecca BaldwinEric BeachamGeorge BeattyBill and Pat Bell Richard and Carolyn von BibersteinJane BirnbachBill BlairFrank BlockMartha Blomberg BeeryCharles and Lynn BoneyGeorge and Cynthia BoylanPhyllis BrennanPhillip and Judith BrockelmanH. Coleman Burgess, IIIGeorge and Cathy Burwell Jerome Hurwitz and Lois ButlerCleve and Jenny CallisonPam CarrollDavid and Vicki CarusoAaron CassadyAnn CaudleTerry and Elizabeth Coffey Scott and Diana CorbettEdward DorseyConnie Drain-GreeneHank and Lisa EstepJeanne EtheridgeMary FarmerRobert and Nancy Scott FinanTom and Carolyn FinleyTim and Pat FordMary Anne FrostWalter and Jill GajewskiHerb Gant Dean GattoneJames GlasenappFrances GoodmanRobert and Deborah GradyHolly GrangeJohn and Mimi GrimshawJames and Mary HagenJuanita Harper

David and Jean HiottGinny HoldernessCarlton and Lee Howard David and Mary HummelJack and Jane Hutchins

In honor of Jane RadackRichard and Carole JohnsonJoseph KittingerRosemary KlineJoe and June KnoxGustav Grosch and Jane KuleszaMary and Jim LaBorde

In honor of Gail Berry Jonathon Hines and Domonique LauneyMichael and Heidi LeePhyllis LeimerGeoffrey and Nancy LoseeWilliam and Carole MalloyJoey and Debra MarlowePaul and Brenda McCombieWilliam and Frances McMillanCharles McShane Family Stephanie MooreSarah MorseSam and Joy Murrell Paul NicholasenWalter and Beth PancoeJames and Mary PatersonJean PooleEd and Lou PowersByron PriceJoanne PurnellLinda PyleJane RadackMichael and Debbie RallisMary RamshornAlice RazzanoWilliam Remele, Jr.Charles and Joanne RieszMarva RobinsonMichael RogusMichael RyanCarl and Leslie SametMary SauerGregory and Marilynn SchimizziJohn R. SloanDixey SmithMr. and Mrs. Wardsworth A. SodersGerrie StorchHarry and Bettie StovallJohn TablerJohn and Judy ThomasBertha ToddRaiford Trask, IIIJohn and Janet TufanoBrad Wear*Acquenetta Wheeler-HinesJoyce WhitakerMelanie WilliamsEdith Werther Owen Wexler

(Reflects contributions received (April 15, 2016 – April 1, 2017)On behalf of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and its Board of Directors we would like to thank these individuals for their generous investment in the work of one of Wilmington’s great cultural organizations. Please notify our Symphony Office about any corrections that need to be made in future listings. BOLDED names are also Masterworks Series Season Subscribers. We are grateful to those donors marked with an asterisk (*) for taking extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.

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Aleta YoungDouglas Young

SUSTAINING MEMBERS ($100–249)Mary AinsleyJanice and Reuben Allen, Jr. Alan AndersonAnonymousJames and Sandy AppleDon and Ann ArabianAdelee AratoMichael ArcaroAndy AtkinsonJoe and Carolyn AugustineEdward and Margaret BarclayDoris BarberDavid BarnesMichael and Gayle BeaudoinColleen BeaulieuGeorge BeckJayme BednarczykKathryn BiddleDonna BillerSteve BlantonPheniee BowenRoger BraceRoberta BrackenConnette BradleyMelissa BrinkleyEstelle BrissetteCathy BryandSteve BucciWilliam BuckleySpencer CarneyBetty CarterMichelle Clark Lynn ClewisStanley and Jane ClowAnne CoffeeMollie CombsChris CoudrietTodd CoxPaul CozzaJonathan and Laura CraneDavid CrisafulliKenneth and Sandra CrumrineRebecca CulbertsonGordon DalgleishWilma DanielsJames and Patricia Alice DavisJune DavisonElizabeth DematteoBarbara DixonThomas and Eldridge DodsonJanet Dorman-NorrisRegina DoyleDwayne and Allison GrahamRobert and Beverly EdensGeorge and Angie EdwardsRichard FergusonShane and Kimberly FolanRob FrazierMary Anne FrostDevon and Sarah GedneyJames Gibson

M Douglas GillJames GlasenappRobert and Deborah GradyEdward and Lee GrahamW E and Katherine GrayBryan GraysonRobert and Roslyn HancockGordon HankinsWilliam HartRobert HenihanAgatha HenriksenSherron HerdtnerRichard HighCarl HoffmanErin HoffmanLinda HollandsworthGeorge and Mary HoltBob and Sue HouserLottie HowardWilliam HowardJohn Hudson, Jr.David and Therese HueholtPatricia HughesMatthew and Cheryl HunterJane Hyman MoranJohn IllingworthClare JacobAnnie JohnstonCathy JonesArthur KareffJoan KilbyBill KingGeorge KnightColleen KolbMegan KopkaJulie KozlowWalter KusekVirginia KuslerEdna LancasterJennifer LancasterHarold and Minnie LarsonAnthony and Ann LeeSamuel and Amanda LeeTom and Carolyn LeonardJames and Margaret LeutzeCharles LittleTheresa LittleJohn and Lou Ann LivermanMarilyn LongeneckerRachel MannRobert and Christine McArtorAlice McCarleyHowell McGuire, Jr.Gracie McLartyWilliam and Francis McMillanHillary McNeirElizabeth MeineIgor and Luda MejouevEugene MerrittBrenda MitwolAlma MooreLettyann MudarReid and Linda MurchisonSusan NettlemanJoanne Newton

Kenneth NewtonJohn NollMichael NorrisTrey OdomDan OwenWalter and Beth PancoeJohn and Ann ParkerJohn B. ParkerWilliam PaschallFred PasourShannon PateDonna PattersonDana and Helen PeckworthSteve PetersonStuart and Cristine PointWalter and Carolyn PrenticeBrian PrevatteJoanna PuritzGisela ReidGail RitterChip and Robin RobinsonR. Joe and Jean RogersJesse RosenBill SaffoTed SampsonWalter and Mary SchumacherWendy SedlacekBruce and Cindy ShellC. Justin SmithMichael SmithJerome and Deborah SmithDon and Meg SmithThomas and Katherine SolomitaRobin SpinksJohn and Jennifer SpruillBarbara St PeterGeorge StephanouJohn and Melinda StewartJason SwinnyKevin TannerJulie TatumWilliam and Brenda TaylorSandra TaylorAnna Joelle ThomasDavid and Phillis ThompsonNilah TolerNancy TrubyDena TurcotteVicki TurnerWilliam and Emily VasserHeda WaldrepJoan Gale WardEdith WardAlbert and Natalie WeilEd WelchDavid and Jean WerlingCalvin and Cynthia WhiteHarry and Barbara WilliamsDonald and Julie WilseyPhilip Stine and Veda WilsonJessica WilsonDavid WyattWendy YandowKaren ZackRob and Michele Zapple

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*We are grateful to those donors marked with an asterisk (*) for taking extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.

DONOR (to $99)AnonymousJanet and Marvin AutryJulia BibbsShameena BroachEdwanda BrownMichael BrownJames and Amy BullardYvonne Burgess-ReedWilliam and Judith CallowayMatt CarvinThomas and Sadie ChapmanJesse DavisGloria DegnanFrancine DeShieldsRobert DolemanBarbara FaisonBonnie FanelliRob FeamsterAnthony GiordanoJames and Sadie GrahamDavid and Roberta HelmsEsther HerringWayne and Barbara HolmesRussell JacksonKelly and Julia Jewell

Mary G. F. KearneyRichard John LiccioneWilliam and Mary LockhartKelly LucklausShirley MacKayCarolyn Nelson*Gloria MonroeStephanie MooreAndrew MullinsSara MurchisonMort and Judith NeblettHeather Padgett Robert and Charlotte RosenbergJanice SandlinJennie ShepardWalter and Angela SkinnerRuth SmithEllen SolomonHelen SolomonMilton StevensonJoanne TrotterMark and Leslie TylerErik and Sarah Van RensWilliam and Emily VassarBetty VermillionLisa-Joy Walters

Peter and Pam WatkinsAshley WeningerJames E. WilliamsJessica WilsonAleta Young

MEMORIAL GIFTS(Received since September 30, 2016)In memory of Lucius Robert George The George Family

In memory of Ralph Moore Ruth and Alex Efird Tom and Carolyn Leonard Lee Makepeace Peggy Payne BD and Jean Sessoms Henry and Gorda Singletary

In memory of Louise S. Wallace Tiffany Edleblute Phyllis Leimer Chuck and Joanne Riesz Doug and Karen Smith Herbert and Ronna Zimmer

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wilmington symphony orchestra corporate, foundation & public support

MAESTRO’S CIRCLE ($10,000 and up)

COMPOSER’S CIRCLE ($5,000 to $9,999)Corning Inc., FoundationDan Cameron Family FoundationThe Landfall FoundationReeds Jewelers River Bluffs

SOLOIST’S CIRCLE ($3,000 to $4,999)Arts Council of Wilmington &

New Hanover CountyBrightmore of Wilmington/

Carolina Bay Cambridge Village of Wilmington The Davis Community Southeastern Nephrology Associates,

PLLC Wilmington Gastroenterology

Associates, P.A.Wilmington Health

CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($1,000 to $2,999)Apple Annie’s Bake Shop Audi Cape Fear Live Oak Banking Company Paramounte Engineering, IncRuth Camp Campbell FoundationSunbrella Fabrics (Glen Raven Mills)Wilmington International AirportWilmington Woman’s Club PRINCIPAL PLAYERS’ CIRCLE ($500 to $999)Alliance for a Regional Concert HallH. Coleman Burgess, III DDSDance Arts Conservatory First BankMargaret B. Hunter, CPA, PA. LT International Trading Co.Kusek Financial GroupDavid E Tepper, CPA PLLC

MUSICIANS’ CIRCLE (to $499)ABG & Associates, Ashley GarnerAir WilmingtonBB&T Bob King Buick – GMC, Inc.Capitol Securities – Mark McKoy

Celebrating the Dream CommitteeCoastal Eyeworks, Inc.

Dr. David FoglemanClancy & Theys

Construction CompanyCorning Credit UnionCrown Box CompanyThe Farlow Group, Inc.Greater Wilmington Business JournalMurrell Voice Piano StudioNorth Carolina Music Teachers

Association Cape Fear ChapterPlanet FitnessSaffo Construction, Inc.Amina Shade InsuranceSouth Beach Grill SouthState BankStrick’s LP GasTri-County Pest ControlThe Talbert Family Foundation

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIESCoca-Cola FoundationCorning Inc. FoundationDuke Energy FoundationExxonMobil FoundationGE Foundation Matching GiftsIBM FoundationUBS Financial Services, Inc.

In addition to gifts from individuals, it is the generosity of these businesses, foundations and organizations that help us produce our Masterworks Series, Symphony Pops!, Family Matinees, and an array of youth education programs.

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