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3

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Table of Contents

About the Hartford Symphony Orchestra | 5Carolyn Kuan music director | 6

The Musicians | 7Administrative Staff | 8Board of Directors | 9

Beethoven amp Mozart Symphony No 6 | 12Copland amp Coney Island | 27

Disney In Concert Magical Music from the Movies | 40HSO Contributors | 46Patron Information | 57

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA166 Capitol Ave Hartford CT 06106Phone 860-246-8742 | Fax 860-247-1720Ticket Services 860-244-2999 | Fax 860-249-5430wwwhartfordsymphonyorgDornenburg Kallenbach Advertising Cover Art

The programs of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are funded in part by St Francis Hospital and Medical Center donors to the Greater Hartford Arts Councilrsquos United Arts Campaign the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Symphony

Marking its 71st Season in 2014-2015 the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra is Connecticutrsquos premier musical organization The Hartford Symphony is the second largest orchestra in New England and is widely recognized as one of Americarsquos leading regional orchestras We believe passionately in the performance of live symphonic music and its value in the community To that end the mission of the HSO is to perform live orchestral music of the highest quality for ever-expanding audiences and to increase through its educational programs the understanding and enjoyment of that music by residents of Connecticut

The HSO presents more than 100 concerts annually including the Masterworks Series Pops Series Sunday Serenades Lincoln Financial Discovery Concerts Symphony in the Schools Musical Dialogues and more In addition the HSO celebrates the 20th year of its tremendously popular summer series the Talcott Mountain Music Festival this summer in Simsbury

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra named Carolyn Kuan as its tenth music director in January 2011 she is the first woman and youngest person to hold this title Since beginning her tenure in 2011 she has led the HSO to new artistic heights with community-minded concerts and innovative programming

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 and formally established as the Symphony Society of Greater Hartford in 1936 Angelo Coniglione Jacques Gordon Leon Barzin Moshe Paranov and George Heck were the Orchestrarsquos first music directors With the appointment of Fritz Mahler in 1953 the HSO began its Young Peoplersquos Concerts and made several highly acclaimed recordings for Vanguard In 1964 Arthur Winograd became music director and the Orchestra grew in artistic stature performing at Carnegie Hall and other New York locations to highly favorable reviews Under the artistic leadership of Michael Lankester from 1985ndash2000 the

HSO received national recognition for its programming innovations including the popular Classical Conversations and Family Matinees as well as a series of landmark theatrical productions From 2001ndash2011 Edward Cumming led the HSO to new levels of artistic excellence and innovative programming

Each season the HSO plays to audiences numbering more than 110000 statewide The Hartford Symphony Orchestrarsquos extensive array of Education and Community Activities serves 23000 individuals in Hartford and surrounding communities annually

6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Music Director

With her appointment as the 10th Music Director of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra beginning in 1112 Carolyn Kuanrsquos reputation as a skilled interpreter and impressive podium presence is recognizable on a national level Ms Kuan has also enjoyed long and successful associations with top tier orchestras opera companies ballet companies and festivals worldwide and continues to distinguish herself as a conductor of extraordinary versatility Ms Kuanrsquos commitment to contemporary music both at home in Hartford and as a guest conductor has defined her approach to programming and established her as an international resource for new music and world premieres

Ms Kuan begins the 1314 Season by stepping in for Marin Alsop at the Campos do Jordao Music Festival in Brazil to lead performances of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Jennifer Koh and Stravinsky Rite of Spring She also stepped in to open the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music conducting two programs to rave reviews that included world and west coast premiers In September she returns to the New York City Ballet to conduct performances of The Four Temperaments and Symphony in Three Movements In addition to her weeks with the Hartford Symphony other highlights include her debut with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra at the Perth International Arts Festival and with Santa Fe Opera in the world premiere of Huang Ruorsquos opera Dr Sun Yat-Sen

Highlights in the 1213 Season included a return engagement with the Detroit Symphony a Chicago Symphony multimedia Beyond the Score presentation with the Colorado Music Festival her Concertgebouw debut with Residentie Orkest attended by Queen Beatrix as well as a highly acclaimed two-week debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the New Creations Festival where Ms Kuan lead world and Canadian premiers

While maintaining a solid connection with traditional repertoire Ms Kuan has cultivated a unique expertise in Asian music and contemporary works From 2007 to 2012 Ms Kuan directed the annual San Francisco Symphony Chinese New Year Concert For the Seattle Symphony Ms Kuan helped launched the hugely successful Celebrate Asia program with community leaders representing eight Asian cultures and led sold out performances for three consecutive years She has led world premiers for Music from Japan and has conducted multimedia productions of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto and A Monkeyrsquos Tale as part of Detroit Symphonyrsquos World Music Series

From 2003 to 2012 Ms Kuan worked closely with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and visiting composers Some of Ms Kuanrsquos finest successes have bridged the gap between cultural and social issues as in her work raising awareness of conservation and the environment through her performances around the globe of the multimedia project Life A Journey Through Time Developed by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and music director Marin Alsop the project features music by Philip Glass and images by famed National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting Ms Kuanrsquos notable performances of Life include a presentation at the 9th World Wilderness Congress with Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan at

the 8 Days in June CHANGE is POWERFUL festival with the Detroit Symphony and at CERNrsquos historical Large Hadron Collider Inauguration with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande attended by Swiss President Pascal Couchepin French Prime Minister Francois Fillon more than 20 other European heads of state and dozens of Nobel laureates

Ms Kuanrsquos recent North America engagements have included performances with the Baltimore San Francisco Detroit Seattle Milwaukee symphonies the Florida and Louisville orchestras the New York City Ballet Colorado Music Festival and the New York City Opera Recent international engagements have included concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Hong Kong Philharmonic National Symphony of Taiwan Residentie Orkest Orquesta Sinfoacutenica de Yucataacuten Royal Danish Ballet and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Carolyn Kuanrsquos past associations include Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-Residence at the New York City Ballet and Assistant Conductor for the Baltimore Opera Company In her debut album released in January 2012 Ms Kuan conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for the Naxos label

The recipient of numerous awards she holds the distinction of being the first female to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship by the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Austrian Foundation in 2003 which resulted in her residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival Winner of the first Taki Concordia Fellowship she has received additional awards from the Womenrsquos Philharmonic Conductors Guild and Susan W Rose Fund for Music Ms Kuan graduated cum laude from Smith College received a Master of Music from the University of Illinois and a Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory

7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Musicians

For chair naming opportunities please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321

FIRST VIOLINLeonid Sigal

concertmasterLisa Rautenberg

associate concertmasterKarin Fagerburg

assistant concertmasterMichael PollardLinda BeersPerry ElliotKrzysztof GadawskiYuri Kharenko-

GolduberRomina KostareFrank KuligMillie PiekosMickey ReismanCyrus StevensDeborah TylerKatalin Viragh

SECOND VIOLINAnhared Wiest Stowe

principalJaroslaw Lis

assistant principalMartha KayserLu Sun FriedmanDiane FredericksonVirginia KramerCandace LammersYaira MatyakubovaAlicia Rattin

VIOLAMichael Wheeler

principalSharon Dennison

assistant principalPatricia Daly VanceAnn DrinanJames GustafsonMartha KnieriemArthur Masi

CELLOJeffrey Krieger

principalEric Dahlin

assistant principalCarole Olefsky

Chair Sponsored by Tom amp Suzy Reich

Laura KaneFran BardJennifer CombsTom HudsonPeter Zay

BASSEdward R Rozie Jr

principal Chair Sponsored by Brook amp Charlotte Jason

Robert Groff assistant principal

James CarrollAnthony Connaway JrJoseph MessinaMark Zechel

FLUTEGreig Shearer

principal The Claire amp Millard Pryor Orchestra Committee Chair

Barbara Hopkins assistant principal

PICCOLOJeanne Wilson

OBOEHeather Taylor

principalStephen Wade

assistant principal

ENGLISH HORNMarilyn Krentzman

CLARINETCurt Blood

principalRonald Krentzman

assistant principal

BASS CLARINETLeopold E Olbrych Jr

BASSOONYeh Chi Wang

principalLouis Lazzerini

assistant principal

CONTRABASSOONRebecca Noreen

HORNBarbara Hill

principal Chair Sponsored by James S amp Nancy Taggart Remis

John Michael Adair assistant principal

Hilary LedebuhrNick RubensteinJoshua Michal

TRUMPETScott McIntosh

principalJay Lichtmann

assistant principalJerry Bryant

TROMBONEBrian L Diehl

principalGeorge Sanders

assistant principal

BASS TROMBONEPatrick Herb

TUBAStephen B Perry

principal

TIMPANIEugene Bozzi principal

PERCUSSIONRobert McEwan

principalMartin Elster

HARPJulie Spring

principal Chair Sponsored by The Verney Family

PIANOMargreet Francis

ROAD MANAGERJeremy Philbin

IATSE

After the first two desks of violins and cellos and the first desk of violas

and basses the remaining string musicians

participate in rotational seating and are listed in

alphabetical orderThe musicians of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the American

Federation of Musicians of the United States

and CanadaStagehands Local 84The Stagehands of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the International Alliance

of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

8

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Administrative Staff

David Fay President amp CEO

ARTISTIC OPERATIONSStephen Collins Director of Artistic Operations amp Administration 2014 Elizabeth L Mahaffey Arts Administration FellowColette Hall Artistic CoordinatorRonald Krentzman LibrarianJaroslaw Lis Personnel ManagerElissa Seed Production Manager

DEVELOPMENTRuth Sovronsky Director of Development

EDUCATION amp COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTBenjamin Hosig Manager of Education and Community Engagement

MARKETINGAmanda Savio Marketing and Public Relations ManagerDornenburg Kallenbach Advertising Marketing amp Press

TICKET SERVICESJennifer Berman Ticket Services Representative

To contact the HSO Administrative Staff please email infohartfordsymphonyorg

9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Board of Directors

James S RemisChairmanMark MandellVice ChairJeff VerneyVice ChairD Weston BoydChair ndash DevelopmentGerald L HessChair ndash FinanceBernard Clark MD Chair ndash GovernanceJohn H Beers EsqChair ndash Administration amp Human Resources SecretaryMatthew H LynchChair ndash InvestmentEdwin ShirleyChair ndash AuditBruce Barth EsqJohn H Beers EsqD Weston BoydAlfred R CasellaBernard Clark MDLuis Diez-Morales MDRosemary GaidosAngela GriffinRobert GroffLawrence S HarrisStephen HarrisMark HayesGerald L HessBarbara HopkinsKenneth A Jacobson Esq Mathew P Jasinski EsqBrook R Jason Martha KayserHarvey KellyFrank KuligRebecca LoreePamela Lucas

Matthew H LynchMark MandellArthur MasiCarole OlefskyDonald OsborneAgnes PeellePaul PendergastMichael PollardEsther A PryorThomas E ReichJames S RemisKelly A RomanoDavid M RothNeil RothfarbEdward ldquoRickrdquo RozieAndrew L Salner MDGreig ShearerEdwin S ShirleyKaren SproutSharon VasquezJeff VerneyStephen WadeDiane WhitneyMichael Yaffe

DIRECTORS EMERITUSColeman H Casey EsqHermine J DreznerMuriel FleischmannPierre GuertinMorton E HandelJohn K Jepson EsqDwight A Johnson EsqChristopher LarsenCharles B Milliken EsqMrs Millard H Pryor JrMary SargentMargery SteinbergH Alex Vance JrRobert J von DohlenThomas R Wildman Esq

Ex OFFICIO DIRECTORSMary GlassmanWalter HarrisonKristina Newman-ScottMayor Pedro Segarra

CONDUCTOR LAUREATEArthur Winograd

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS1937ndash41 Francis Goodwin II1941ndash51 Willard B Rogers1951ndash53 John E Ellsworth1951ndash55 Henry P Bakewell1955ndash56 Albert E Holland1956ndash58 Edward N Allen1958ndash60 Charles A Spoerl1960ndash62 Francis Goodwin II1962ndash64 Charles B Milliken1964ndash65 Henry S Beers1965ndash68 Charles E Lord1968ndash71 Gordon N Farquhar1971ndash73 Paul A Benke1973ndash75 Christopher Larsen1975ndash78 Henry S Robinson Jr1978ndash79 Harold C Kraus1978ndash81 Robert J von Dohlen1981ndash83 John C Parish1983ndash85 Robert J Birnbaum1985ndash87 Coleman H Casey1987ndash89 Morton E Handel1989ndash91 Arthur L Handman1991ndash93 Peter S Burgess1993ndash94 Arthur L Handman1994ndash96 Dwight Johnson1996ndash99 Margery S Steinberg1999ndash02 Millard H Pryor2002ndash04 Thomas R Wildman Esq2004ndash07 David M Roth2007ndash09 Kenneth A Jacobson Esq2009ndash10 Pierre H Guertin2010ndash11 David M Roth

Good thinking

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All Classical WFCR 885-2 HD Radiotrade

1 1

Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

1 3

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

1 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

1 5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

1 7

Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

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Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

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About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

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THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

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5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Symphony

Marking its 71st Season in 2014-2015 the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra is Connecticutrsquos premier musical organization The Hartford Symphony is the second largest orchestra in New England and is widely recognized as one of Americarsquos leading regional orchestras We believe passionately in the performance of live symphonic music and its value in the community To that end the mission of the HSO is to perform live orchestral music of the highest quality for ever-expanding audiences and to increase through its educational programs the understanding and enjoyment of that music by residents of Connecticut

The HSO presents more than 100 concerts annually including the Masterworks Series Pops Series Sunday Serenades Lincoln Financial Discovery Concerts Symphony in the Schools Musical Dialogues and more In addition the HSO celebrates the 20th year of its tremendously popular summer series the Talcott Mountain Music Festival this summer in Simsbury

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra named Carolyn Kuan as its tenth music director in January 2011 she is the first woman and youngest person to hold this title Since beginning her tenure in 2011 she has led the HSO to new artistic heights with community-minded concerts and innovative programming

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 and formally established as the Symphony Society of Greater Hartford in 1936 Angelo Coniglione Jacques Gordon Leon Barzin Moshe Paranov and George Heck were the Orchestrarsquos first music directors With the appointment of Fritz Mahler in 1953 the HSO began its Young Peoplersquos Concerts and made several highly acclaimed recordings for Vanguard In 1964 Arthur Winograd became music director and the Orchestra grew in artistic stature performing at Carnegie Hall and other New York locations to highly favorable reviews Under the artistic leadership of Michael Lankester from 1985ndash2000 the

HSO received national recognition for its programming innovations including the popular Classical Conversations and Family Matinees as well as a series of landmark theatrical productions From 2001ndash2011 Edward Cumming led the HSO to new levels of artistic excellence and innovative programming

Each season the HSO plays to audiences numbering more than 110000 statewide The Hartford Symphony Orchestrarsquos extensive array of Education and Community Activities serves 23000 individuals in Hartford and surrounding communities annually

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Music Director

With her appointment as the 10th Music Director of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra beginning in 1112 Carolyn Kuanrsquos reputation as a skilled interpreter and impressive podium presence is recognizable on a national level Ms Kuan has also enjoyed long and successful associations with top tier orchestras opera companies ballet companies and festivals worldwide and continues to distinguish herself as a conductor of extraordinary versatility Ms Kuanrsquos commitment to contemporary music both at home in Hartford and as a guest conductor has defined her approach to programming and established her as an international resource for new music and world premieres

Ms Kuan begins the 1314 Season by stepping in for Marin Alsop at the Campos do Jordao Music Festival in Brazil to lead performances of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Jennifer Koh and Stravinsky Rite of Spring She also stepped in to open the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music conducting two programs to rave reviews that included world and west coast premiers In September she returns to the New York City Ballet to conduct performances of The Four Temperaments and Symphony in Three Movements In addition to her weeks with the Hartford Symphony other highlights include her debut with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra at the Perth International Arts Festival and with Santa Fe Opera in the world premiere of Huang Ruorsquos opera Dr Sun Yat-Sen

Highlights in the 1213 Season included a return engagement with the Detroit Symphony a Chicago Symphony multimedia Beyond the Score presentation with the Colorado Music Festival her Concertgebouw debut with Residentie Orkest attended by Queen Beatrix as well as a highly acclaimed two-week debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the New Creations Festival where Ms Kuan lead world and Canadian premiers

While maintaining a solid connection with traditional repertoire Ms Kuan has cultivated a unique expertise in Asian music and contemporary works From 2007 to 2012 Ms Kuan directed the annual San Francisco Symphony Chinese New Year Concert For the Seattle Symphony Ms Kuan helped launched the hugely successful Celebrate Asia program with community leaders representing eight Asian cultures and led sold out performances for three consecutive years She has led world premiers for Music from Japan and has conducted multimedia productions of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto and A Monkeyrsquos Tale as part of Detroit Symphonyrsquos World Music Series

From 2003 to 2012 Ms Kuan worked closely with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and visiting composers Some of Ms Kuanrsquos finest successes have bridged the gap between cultural and social issues as in her work raising awareness of conservation and the environment through her performances around the globe of the multimedia project Life A Journey Through Time Developed by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and music director Marin Alsop the project features music by Philip Glass and images by famed National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting Ms Kuanrsquos notable performances of Life include a presentation at the 9th World Wilderness Congress with Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan at

the 8 Days in June CHANGE is POWERFUL festival with the Detroit Symphony and at CERNrsquos historical Large Hadron Collider Inauguration with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande attended by Swiss President Pascal Couchepin French Prime Minister Francois Fillon more than 20 other European heads of state and dozens of Nobel laureates

Ms Kuanrsquos recent North America engagements have included performances with the Baltimore San Francisco Detroit Seattle Milwaukee symphonies the Florida and Louisville orchestras the New York City Ballet Colorado Music Festival and the New York City Opera Recent international engagements have included concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Hong Kong Philharmonic National Symphony of Taiwan Residentie Orkest Orquesta Sinfoacutenica de Yucataacuten Royal Danish Ballet and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Carolyn Kuanrsquos past associations include Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-Residence at the New York City Ballet and Assistant Conductor for the Baltimore Opera Company In her debut album released in January 2012 Ms Kuan conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for the Naxos label

The recipient of numerous awards she holds the distinction of being the first female to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship by the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Austrian Foundation in 2003 which resulted in her residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival Winner of the first Taki Concordia Fellowship she has received additional awards from the Womenrsquos Philharmonic Conductors Guild and Susan W Rose Fund for Music Ms Kuan graduated cum laude from Smith College received a Master of Music from the University of Illinois and a Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory

7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Musicians

For chair naming opportunities please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321

FIRST VIOLINLeonid Sigal

concertmasterLisa Rautenberg

associate concertmasterKarin Fagerburg

assistant concertmasterMichael PollardLinda BeersPerry ElliotKrzysztof GadawskiYuri Kharenko-

GolduberRomina KostareFrank KuligMillie PiekosMickey ReismanCyrus StevensDeborah TylerKatalin Viragh

SECOND VIOLINAnhared Wiest Stowe

principalJaroslaw Lis

assistant principalMartha KayserLu Sun FriedmanDiane FredericksonVirginia KramerCandace LammersYaira MatyakubovaAlicia Rattin

VIOLAMichael Wheeler

principalSharon Dennison

assistant principalPatricia Daly VanceAnn DrinanJames GustafsonMartha KnieriemArthur Masi

CELLOJeffrey Krieger

principalEric Dahlin

assistant principalCarole Olefsky

Chair Sponsored by Tom amp Suzy Reich

Laura KaneFran BardJennifer CombsTom HudsonPeter Zay

BASSEdward R Rozie Jr

principal Chair Sponsored by Brook amp Charlotte Jason

Robert Groff assistant principal

James CarrollAnthony Connaway JrJoseph MessinaMark Zechel

FLUTEGreig Shearer

principal The Claire amp Millard Pryor Orchestra Committee Chair

Barbara Hopkins assistant principal

PICCOLOJeanne Wilson

OBOEHeather Taylor

principalStephen Wade

assistant principal

ENGLISH HORNMarilyn Krentzman

CLARINETCurt Blood

principalRonald Krentzman

assistant principal

BASS CLARINETLeopold E Olbrych Jr

BASSOONYeh Chi Wang

principalLouis Lazzerini

assistant principal

CONTRABASSOONRebecca Noreen

HORNBarbara Hill

principal Chair Sponsored by James S amp Nancy Taggart Remis

John Michael Adair assistant principal

Hilary LedebuhrNick RubensteinJoshua Michal

TRUMPETScott McIntosh

principalJay Lichtmann

assistant principalJerry Bryant

TROMBONEBrian L Diehl

principalGeorge Sanders

assistant principal

BASS TROMBONEPatrick Herb

TUBAStephen B Perry

principal

TIMPANIEugene Bozzi principal

PERCUSSIONRobert McEwan

principalMartin Elster

HARPJulie Spring

principal Chair Sponsored by The Verney Family

PIANOMargreet Francis

ROAD MANAGERJeremy Philbin

IATSE

After the first two desks of violins and cellos and the first desk of violas

and basses the remaining string musicians

participate in rotational seating and are listed in

alphabetical orderThe musicians of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the American

Federation of Musicians of the United States

and CanadaStagehands Local 84The Stagehands of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the International Alliance

of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Administrative Staff

David Fay President amp CEO

ARTISTIC OPERATIONSStephen Collins Director of Artistic Operations amp Administration 2014 Elizabeth L Mahaffey Arts Administration FellowColette Hall Artistic CoordinatorRonald Krentzman LibrarianJaroslaw Lis Personnel ManagerElissa Seed Production Manager

DEVELOPMENTRuth Sovronsky Director of Development

EDUCATION amp COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTBenjamin Hosig Manager of Education and Community Engagement

MARKETINGAmanda Savio Marketing and Public Relations ManagerDornenburg Kallenbach Advertising Marketing amp Press

TICKET SERVICESJennifer Berman Ticket Services Representative

To contact the HSO Administrative Staff please email infohartfordsymphonyorg

9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Board of Directors

James S RemisChairmanMark MandellVice ChairJeff VerneyVice ChairD Weston BoydChair ndash DevelopmentGerald L HessChair ndash FinanceBernard Clark MD Chair ndash GovernanceJohn H Beers EsqChair ndash Administration amp Human Resources SecretaryMatthew H LynchChair ndash InvestmentEdwin ShirleyChair ndash AuditBruce Barth EsqJohn H Beers EsqD Weston BoydAlfred R CasellaBernard Clark MDLuis Diez-Morales MDRosemary GaidosAngela GriffinRobert GroffLawrence S HarrisStephen HarrisMark HayesGerald L HessBarbara HopkinsKenneth A Jacobson Esq Mathew P Jasinski EsqBrook R Jason Martha KayserHarvey KellyFrank KuligRebecca LoreePamela Lucas

Matthew H LynchMark MandellArthur MasiCarole OlefskyDonald OsborneAgnes PeellePaul PendergastMichael PollardEsther A PryorThomas E ReichJames S RemisKelly A RomanoDavid M RothNeil RothfarbEdward ldquoRickrdquo RozieAndrew L Salner MDGreig ShearerEdwin S ShirleyKaren SproutSharon VasquezJeff VerneyStephen WadeDiane WhitneyMichael Yaffe

DIRECTORS EMERITUSColeman H Casey EsqHermine J DreznerMuriel FleischmannPierre GuertinMorton E HandelJohn K Jepson EsqDwight A Johnson EsqChristopher LarsenCharles B Milliken EsqMrs Millard H Pryor JrMary SargentMargery SteinbergH Alex Vance JrRobert J von DohlenThomas R Wildman Esq

Ex OFFICIO DIRECTORSMary GlassmanWalter HarrisonKristina Newman-ScottMayor Pedro Segarra

CONDUCTOR LAUREATEArthur Winograd

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS1937ndash41 Francis Goodwin II1941ndash51 Willard B Rogers1951ndash53 John E Ellsworth1951ndash55 Henry P Bakewell1955ndash56 Albert E Holland1956ndash58 Edward N Allen1958ndash60 Charles A Spoerl1960ndash62 Francis Goodwin II1962ndash64 Charles B Milliken1964ndash65 Henry S Beers1965ndash68 Charles E Lord1968ndash71 Gordon N Farquhar1971ndash73 Paul A Benke1973ndash75 Christopher Larsen1975ndash78 Henry S Robinson Jr1978ndash79 Harold C Kraus1978ndash81 Robert J von Dohlen1981ndash83 John C Parish1983ndash85 Robert J Birnbaum1985ndash87 Coleman H Casey1987ndash89 Morton E Handel1989ndash91 Arthur L Handman1991ndash93 Peter S Burgess1993ndash94 Arthur L Handman1994ndash96 Dwight Johnson1996ndash99 Margery S Steinberg1999ndash02 Millard H Pryor2002ndash04 Thomas R Wildman Esq2004ndash07 David M Roth2007ndash09 Kenneth A Jacobson Esq2009ndash10 Pierre H Guertin2010ndash11 David M Roth

Good thinking

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All Classical WFCR 885-2 HD Radiotrade

1 1

Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

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IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

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Impact Fund

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CompanyUBS Financial Services

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AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Music Director

With her appointment as the 10th Music Director of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra beginning in 1112 Carolyn Kuanrsquos reputation as a skilled interpreter and impressive podium presence is recognizable on a national level Ms Kuan has also enjoyed long and successful associations with top tier orchestras opera companies ballet companies and festivals worldwide and continues to distinguish herself as a conductor of extraordinary versatility Ms Kuanrsquos commitment to contemporary music both at home in Hartford and as a guest conductor has defined her approach to programming and established her as an international resource for new music and world premieres

Ms Kuan begins the 1314 Season by stepping in for Marin Alsop at the Campos do Jordao Music Festival in Brazil to lead performances of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Jennifer Koh and Stravinsky Rite of Spring She also stepped in to open the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music conducting two programs to rave reviews that included world and west coast premiers In September she returns to the New York City Ballet to conduct performances of The Four Temperaments and Symphony in Three Movements In addition to her weeks with the Hartford Symphony other highlights include her debut with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra at the Perth International Arts Festival and with Santa Fe Opera in the world premiere of Huang Ruorsquos opera Dr Sun Yat-Sen

Highlights in the 1213 Season included a return engagement with the Detroit Symphony a Chicago Symphony multimedia Beyond the Score presentation with the Colorado Music Festival her Concertgebouw debut with Residentie Orkest attended by Queen Beatrix as well as a highly acclaimed two-week debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the New Creations Festival where Ms Kuan lead world and Canadian premiers

While maintaining a solid connection with traditional repertoire Ms Kuan has cultivated a unique expertise in Asian music and contemporary works From 2007 to 2012 Ms Kuan directed the annual San Francisco Symphony Chinese New Year Concert For the Seattle Symphony Ms Kuan helped launched the hugely successful Celebrate Asia program with community leaders representing eight Asian cultures and led sold out performances for three consecutive years She has led world premiers for Music from Japan and has conducted multimedia productions of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto and A Monkeyrsquos Tale as part of Detroit Symphonyrsquos World Music Series

From 2003 to 2012 Ms Kuan worked closely with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and visiting composers Some of Ms Kuanrsquos finest successes have bridged the gap between cultural and social issues as in her work raising awareness of conservation and the environment through her performances around the globe of the multimedia project Life A Journey Through Time Developed by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and music director Marin Alsop the project features music by Philip Glass and images by famed National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting Ms Kuanrsquos notable performances of Life include a presentation at the 9th World Wilderness Congress with Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan at

the 8 Days in June CHANGE is POWERFUL festival with the Detroit Symphony and at CERNrsquos historical Large Hadron Collider Inauguration with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande attended by Swiss President Pascal Couchepin French Prime Minister Francois Fillon more than 20 other European heads of state and dozens of Nobel laureates

Ms Kuanrsquos recent North America engagements have included performances with the Baltimore San Francisco Detroit Seattle Milwaukee symphonies the Florida and Louisville orchestras the New York City Ballet Colorado Music Festival and the New York City Opera Recent international engagements have included concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Hong Kong Philharmonic National Symphony of Taiwan Residentie Orkest Orquesta Sinfoacutenica de Yucataacuten Royal Danish Ballet and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Carolyn Kuanrsquos past associations include Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-Residence at the New York City Ballet and Assistant Conductor for the Baltimore Opera Company In her debut album released in January 2012 Ms Kuan conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for the Naxos label

The recipient of numerous awards she holds the distinction of being the first female to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship by the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Austrian Foundation in 2003 which resulted in her residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival Winner of the first Taki Concordia Fellowship she has received additional awards from the Womenrsquos Philharmonic Conductors Guild and Susan W Rose Fund for Music Ms Kuan graduated cum laude from Smith College received a Master of Music from the University of Illinois and a Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory

7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Musicians

For chair naming opportunities please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321

FIRST VIOLINLeonid Sigal

concertmasterLisa Rautenberg

associate concertmasterKarin Fagerburg

assistant concertmasterMichael PollardLinda BeersPerry ElliotKrzysztof GadawskiYuri Kharenko-

GolduberRomina KostareFrank KuligMillie PiekosMickey ReismanCyrus StevensDeborah TylerKatalin Viragh

SECOND VIOLINAnhared Wiest Stowe

principalJaroslaw Lis

assistant principalMartha KayserLu Sun FriedmanDiane FredericksonVirginia KramerCandace LammersYaira MatyakubovaAlicia Rattin

VIOLAMichael Wheeler

principalSharon Dennison

assistant principalPatricia Daly VanceAnn DrinanJames GustafsonMartha KnieriemArthur Masi

CELLOJeffrey Krieger

principalEric Dahlin

assistant principalCarole Olefsky

Chair Sponsored by Tom amp Suzy Reich

Laura KaneFran BardJennifer CombsTom HudsonPeter Zay

BASSEdward R Rozie Jr

principal Chair Sponsored by Brook amp Charlotte Jason

Robert Groff assistant principal

James CarrollAnthony Connaway JrJoseph MessinaMark Zechel

FLUTEGreig Shearer

principal The Claire amp Millard Pryor Orchestra Committee Chair

Barbara Hopkins assistant principal

PICCOLOJeanne Wilson

OBOEHeather Taylor

principalStephen Wade

assistant principal

ENGLISH HORNMarilyn Krentzman

CLARINETCurt Blood

principalRonald Krentzman

assistant principal

BASS CLARINETLeopold E Olbrych Jr

BASSOONYeh Chi Wang

principalLouis Lazzerini

assistant principal

CONTRABASSOONRebecca Noreen

HORNBarbara Hill

principal Chair Sponsored by James S amp Nancy Taggart Remis

John Michael Adair assistant principal

Hilary LedebuhrNick RubensteinJoshua Michal

TRUMPETScott McIntosh

principalJay Lichtmann

assistant principalJerry Bryant

TROMBONEBrian L Diehl

principalGeorge Sanders

assistant principal

BASS TROMBONEPatrick Herb

TUBAStephen B Perry

principal

TIMPANIEugene Bozzi principal

PERCUSSIONRobert McEwan

principalMartin Elster

HARPJulie Spring

principal Chair Sponsored by The Verney Family

PIANOMargreet Francis

ROAD MANAGERJeremy Philbin

IATSE

After the first two desks of violins and cellos and the first desk of violas

and basses the remaining string musicians

participate in rotational seating and are listed in

alphabetical orderThe musicians of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the American

Federation of Musicians of the United States

and CanadaStagehands Local 84The Stagehands of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the International Alliance

of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

8

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Administrative Staff

David Fay President amp CEO

ARTISTIC OPERATIONSStephen Collins Director of Artistic Operations amp Administration 2014 Elizabeth L Mahaffey Arts Administration FellowColette Hall Artistic CoordinatorRonald Krentzman LibrarianJaroslaw Lis Personnel ManagerElissa Seed Production Manager

DEVELOPMENTRuth Sovronsky Director of Development

EDUCATION amp COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTBenjamin Hosig Manager of Education and Community Engagement

MARKETINGAmanda Savio Marketing and Public Relations ManagerDornenburg Kallenbach Advertising Marketing amp Press

TICKET SERVICESJennifer Berman Ticket Services Representative

To contact the HSO Administrative Staff please email infohartfordsymphonyorg

9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Board of Directors

James S RemisChairmanMark MandellVice ChairJeff VerneyVice ChairD Weston BoydChair ndash DevelopmentGerald L HessChair ndash FinanceBernard Clark MD Chair ndash GovernanceJohn H Beers EsqChair ndash Administration amp Human Resources SecretaryMatthew H LynchChair ndash InvestmentEdwin ShirleyChair ndash AuditBruce Barth EsqJohn H Beers EsqD Weston BoydAlfred R CasellaBernard Clark MDLuis Diez-Morales MDRosemary GaidosAngela GriffinRobert GroffLawrence S HarrisStephen HarrisMark HayesGerald L HessBarbara HopkinsKenneth A Jacobson Esq Mathew P Jasinski EsqBrook R Jason Martha KayserHarvey KellyFrank KuligRebecca LoreePamela Lucas

Matthew H LynchMark MandellArthur MasiCarole OlefskyDonald OsborneAgnes PeellePaul PendergastMichael PollardEsther A PryorThomas E ReichJames S RemisKelly A RomanoDavid M RothNeil RothfarbEdward ldquoRickrdquo RozieAndrew L Salner MDGreig ShearerEdwin S ShirleyKaren SproutSharon VasquezJeff VerneyStephen WadeDiane WhitneyMichael Yaffe

DIRECTORS EMERITUSColeman H Casey EsqHermine J DreznerMuriel FleischmannPierre GuertinMorton E HandelJohn K Jepson EsqDwight A Johnson EsqChristopher LarsenCharles B Milliken EsqMrs Millard H Pryor JrMary SargentMargery SteinbergH Alex Vance JrRobert J von DohlenThomas R Wildman Esq

Ex OFFICIO DIRECTORSMary GlassmanWalter HarrisonKristina Newman-ScottMayor Pedro Segarra

CONDUCTOR LAUREATEArthur Winograd

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS1937ndash41 Francis Goodwin II1941ndash51 Willard B Rogers1951ndash53 John E Ellsworth1951ndash55 Henry P Bakewell1955ndash56 Albert E Holland1956ndash58 Edward N Allen1958ndash60 Charles A Spoerl1960ndash62 Francis Goodwin II1962ndash64 Charles B Milliken1964ndash65 Henry S Beers1965ndash68 Charles E Lord1968ndash71 Gordon N Farquhar1971ndash73 Paul A Benke1973ndash75 Christopher Larsen1975ndash78 Henry S Robinson Jr1978ndash79 Harold C Kraus1978ndash81 Robert J von Dohlen1981ndash83 John C Parish1983ndash85 Robert J Birnbaum1985ndash87 Coleman H Casey1987ndash89 Morton E Handel1989ndash91 Arthur L Handman1991ndash93 Peter S Burgess1993ndash94 Arthur L Handman1994ndash96 Dwight Johnson1996ndash99 Margery S Steinberg1999ndash02 Millard H Pryor2002ndash04 Thomas R Wildman Esq2004ndash07 David M Roth2007ndash09 Kenneth A Jacobson Esq2009ndash10 Pierre H Guertin2010ndash11 David M Roth

Good thinking

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1 1

Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

1 3

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

1 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

1 5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

1 7

Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

1 8

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

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Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

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About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

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About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

3 7

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

3 8

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

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RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

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5 9

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7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Musicians

For chair naming opportunities please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321

FIRST VIOLINLeonid Sigal

concertmasterLisa Rautenberg

associate concertmasterKarin Fagerburg

assistant concertmasterMichael PollardLinda BeersPerry ElliotKrzysztof GadawskiYuri Kharenko-

GolduberRomina KostareFrank KuligMillie PiekosMickey ReismanCyrus StevensDeborah TylerKatalin Viragh

SECOND VIOLINAnhared Wiest Stowe

principalJaroslaw Lis

assistant principalMartha KayserLu Sun FriedmanDiane FredericksonVirginia KramerCandace LammersYaira MatyakubovaAlicia Rattin

VIOLAMichael Wheeler

principalSharon Dennison

assistant principalPatricia Daly VanceAnn DrinanJames GustafsonMartha KnieriemArthur Masi

CELLOJeffrey Krieger

principalEric Dahlin

assistant principalCarole Olefsky

Chair Sponsored by Tom amp Suzy Reich

Laura KaneFran BardJennifer CombsTom HudsonPeter Zay

BASSEdward R Rozie Jr

principal Chair Sponsored by Brook amp Charlotte Jason

Robert Groff assistant principal

James CarrollAnthony Connaway JrJoseph MessinaMark Zechel

FLUTEGreig Shearer

principal The Claire amp Millard Pryor Orchestra Committee Chair

Barbara Hopkins assistant principal

PICCOLOJeanne Wilson

OBOEHeather Taylor

principalStephen Wade

assistant principal

ENGLISH HORNMarilyn Krentzman

CLARINETCurt Blood

principalRonald Krentzman

assistant principal

BASS CLARINETLeopold E Olbrych Jr

BASSOONYeh Chi Wang

principalLouis Lazzerini

assistant principal

CONTRABASSOONRebecca Noreen

HORNBarbara Hill

principal Chair Sponsored by James S amp Nancy Taggart Remis

John Michael Adair assistant principal

Hilary LedebuhrNick RubensteinJoshua Michal

TRUMPETScott McIntosh

principalJay Lichtmann

assistant principalJerry Bryant

TROMBONEBrian L Diehl

principalGeorge Sanders

assistant principal

BASS TROMBONEPatrick Herb

TUBAStephen B Perry

principal

TIMPANIEugene Bozzi principal

PERCUSSIONRobert McEwan

principalMartin Elster

HARPJulie Spring

principal Chair Sponsored by The Verney Family

PIANOMargreet Francis

ROAD MANAGERJeremy Philbin

IATSE

After the first two desks of violins and cellos and the first desk of violas

and basses the remaining string musicians

participate in rotational seating and are listed in

alphabetical orderThe musicians of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the American

Federation of Musicians of the United States

and CanadaStagehands Local 84The Stagehands of the Hartford Symphony

Orchestra are members of the International Alliance

of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

8

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Administrative Staff

David Fay President amp CEO

ARTISTIC OPERATIONSStephen Collins Director of Artistic Operations amp Administration 2014 Elizabeth L Mahaffey Arts Administration FellowColette Hall Artistic CoordinatorRonald Krentzman LibrarianJaroslaw Lis Personnel ManagerElissa Seed Production Manager

DEVELOPMENTRuth Sovronsky Director of Development

EDUCATION amp COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTBenjamin Hosig Manager of Education and Community Engagement

MARKETINGAmanda Savio Marketing and Public Relations ManagerDornenburg Kallenbach Advertising Marketing amp Press

TICKET SERVICESJennifer Berman Ticket Services Representative

To contact the HSO Administrative Staff please email infohartfordsymphonyorg

9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Board of Directors

James S RemisChairmanMark MandellVice ChairJeff VerneyVice ChairD Weston BoydChair ndash DevelopmentGerald L HessChair ndash FinanceBernard Clark MD Chair ndash GovernanceJohn H Beers EsqChair ndash Administration amp Human Resources SecretaryMatthew H LynchChair ndash InvestmentEdwin ShirleyChair ndash AuditBruce Barth EsqJohn H Beers EsqD Weston BoydAlfred R CasellaBernard Clark MDLuis Diez-Morales MDRosemary GaidosAngela GriffinRobert GroffLawrence S HarrisStephen HarrisMark HayesGerald L HessBarbara HopkinsKenneth A Jacobson Esq Mathew P Jasinski EsqBrook R Jason Martha KayserHarvey KellyFrank KuligRebecca LoreePamela Lucas

Matthew H LynchMark MandellArthur MasiCarole OlefskyDonald OsborneAgnes PeellePaul PendergastMichael PollardEsther A PryorThomas E ReichJames S RemisKelly A RomanoDavid M RothNeil RothfarbEdward ldquoRickrdquo RozieAndrew L Salner MDGreig ShearerEdwin S ShirleyKaren SproutSharon VasquezJeff VerneyStephen WadeDiane WhitneyMichael Yaffe

DIRECTORS EMERITUSColeman H Casey EsqHermine J DreznerMuriel FleischmannPierre GuertinMorton E HandelJohn K Jepson EsqDwight A Johnson EsqChristopher LarsenCharles B Milliken EsqMrs Millard H Pryor JrMary SargentMargery SteinbergH Alex Vance JrRobert J von DohlenThomas R Wildman Esq

Ex OFFICIO DIRECTORSMary GlassmanWalter HarrisonKristina Newman-ScottMayor Pedro Segarra

CONDUCTOR LAUREATEArthur Winograd

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS1937ndash41 Francis Goodwin II1941ndash51 Willard B Rogers1951ndash53 John E Ellsworth1951ndash55 Henry P Bakewell1955ndash56 Albert E Holland1956ndash58 Edward N Allen1958ndash60 Charles A Spoerl1960ndash62 Francis Goodwin II1962ndash64 Charles B Milliken1964ndash65 Henry S Beers1965ndash68 Charles E Lord1968ndash71 Gordon N Farquhar1971ndash73 Paul A Benke1973ndash75 Christopher Larsen1975ndash78 Henry S Robinson Jr1978ndash79 Harold C Kraus1978ndash81 Robert J von Dohlen1981ndash83 John C Parish1983ndash85 Robert J Birnbaum1985ndash87 Coleman H Casey1987ndash89 Morton E Handel1989ndash91 Arthur L Handman1991ndash93 Peter S Burgess1993ndash94 Arthur L Handman1994ndash96 Dwight Johnson1996ndash99 Margery S Steinberg1999ndash02 Millard H Pryor2002ndash04 Thomas R Wildman Esq2004ndash07 David M Roth2007ndash09 Kenneth A Jacobson Esq2009ndash10 Pierre H Guertin2010ndash11 David M Roth

Good thinking

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1 1

Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

1 3

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

1 9

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

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Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

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About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

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About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

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About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

4 3

JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

5 3

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

5 6

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

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8

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Administrative Staff

David Fay President amp CEO

ARTISTIC OPERATIONSStephen Collins Director of Artistic Operations amp Administration 2014 Elizabeth L Mahaffey Arts Administration FellowColette Hall Artistic CoordinatorRonald Krentzman LibrarianJaroslaw Lis Personnel ManagerElissa Seed Production Manager

DEVELOPMENTRuth Sovronsky Director of Development

EDUCATION amp COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTBenjamin Hosig Manager of Education and Community Engagement

MARKETINGAmanda Savio Marketing and Public Relations ManagerDornenburg Kallenbach Advertising Marketing amp Press

TICKET SERVICESJennifer Berman Ticket Services Representative

To contact the HSO Administrative Staff please email infohartfordsymphonyorg

9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Board of Directors

James S RemisChairmanMark MandellVice ChairJeff VerneyVice ChairD Weston BoydChair ndash DevelopmentGerald L HessChair ndash FinanceBernard Clark MD Chair ndash GovernanceJohn H Beers EsqChair ndash Administration amp Human Resources SecretaryMatthew H LynchChair ndash InvestmentEdwin ShirleyChair ndash AuditBruce Barth EsqJohn H Beers EsqD Weston BoydAlfred R CasellaBernard Clark MDLuis Diez-Morales MDRosemary GaidosAngela GriffinRobert GroffLawrence S HarrisStephen HarrisMark HayesGerald L HessBarbara HopkinsKenneth A Jacobson Esq Mathew P Jasinski EsqBrook R Jason Martha KayserHarvey KellyFrank KuligRebecca LoreePamela Lucas

Matthew H LynchMark MandellArthur MasiCarole OlefskyDonald OsborneAgnes PeellePaul PendergastMichael PollardEsther A PryorThomas E ReichJames S RemisKelly A RomanoDavid M RothNeil RothfarbEdward ldquoRickrdquo RozieAndrew L Salner MDGreig ShearerEdwin S ShirleyKaren SproutSharon VasquezJeff VerneyStephen WadeDiane WhitneyMichael Yaffe

DIRECTORS EMERITUSColeman H Casey EsqHermine J DreznerMuriel FleischmannPierre GuertinMorton E HandelJohn K Jepson EsqDwight A Johnson EsqChristopher LarsenCharles B Milliken EsqMrs Millard H Pryor JrMary SargentMargery SteinbergH Alex Vance JrRobert J von DohlenThomas R Wildman Esq

Ex OFFICIO DIRECTORSMary GlassmanWalter HarrisonKristina Newman-ScottMayor Pedro Segarra

CONDUCTOR LAUREATEArthur Winograd

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS1937ndash41 Francis Goodwin II1941ndash51 Willard B Rogers1951ndash53 John E Ellsworth1951ndash55 Henry P Bakewell1955ndash56 Albert E Holland1956ndash58 Edward N Allen1958ndash60 Charles A Spoerl1960ndash62 Francis Goodwin II1962ndash64 Charles B Milliken1964ndash65 Henry S Beers1965ndash68 Charles E Lord1968ndash71 Gordon N Farquhar1971ndash73 Paul A Benke1973ndash75 Christopher Larsen1975ndash78 Henry S Robinson Jr1978ndash79 Harold C Kraus1978ndash81 Robert J von Dohlen1981ndash83 John C Parish1983ndash85 Robert J Birnbaum1985ndash87 Coleman H Casey1987ndash89 Morton E Handel1989ndash91 Arthur L Handman1991ndash93 Peter S Burgess1993ndash94 Arthur L Handman1994ndash96 Dwight Johnson1996ndash99 Margery S Steinberg1999ndash02 Millard H Pryor2002ndash04 Thomas R Wildman Esq2004ndash07 David M Roth2007ndash09 Kenneth A Jacobson Esq2009ndash10 Pierre H Guertin2010ndash11 David M Roth

Good thinking

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All Classical WFCR 885-2 HD Radiotrade

1 1

Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

1 3

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

1 5

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lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

1 9

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then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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MASTERWORKS SERIES

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projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Board of Directors

James S RemisChairmanMark MandellVice ChairJeff VerneyVice ChairD Weston BoydChair ndash DevelopmentGerald L HessChair ndash FinanceBernard Clark MD Chair ndash GovernanceJohn H Beers EsqChair ndash Administration amp Human Resources SecretaryMatthew H LynchChair ndash InvestmentEdwin ShirleyChair ndash AuditBruce Barth EsqJohn H Beers EsqD Weston BoydAlfred R CasellaBernard Clark MDLuis Diez-Morales MDRosemary GaidosAngela GriffinRobert GroffLawrence S HarrisStephen HarrisMark HayesGerald L HessBarbara HopkinsKenneth A Jacobson Esq Mathew P Jasinski EsqBrook R Jason Martha KayserHarvey KellyFrank KuligRebecca LoreePamela Lucas

Matthew H LynchMark MandellArthur MasiCarole OlefskyDonald OsborneAgnes PeellePaul PendergastMichael PollardEsther A PryorThomas E ReichJames S RemisKelly A RomanoDavid M RothNeil RothfarbEdward ldquoRickrdquo RozieAndrew L Salner MDGreig ShearerEdwin S ShirleyKaren SproutSharon VasquezJeff VerneyStephen WadeDiane WhitneyMichael Yaffe

DIRECTORS EMERITUSColeman H Casey EsqHermine J DreznerMuriel FleischmannPierre GuertinMorton E HandelJohn K Jepson EsqDwight A Johnson EsqChristopher LarsenCharles B Milliken EsqMrs Millard H Pryor JrMary SargentMargery SteinbergH Alex Vance JrRobert J von DohlenThomas R Wildman Esq

Ex OFFICIO DIRECTORSMary GlassmanWalter HarrisonKristina Newman-ScottMayor Pedro Segarra

CONDUCTOR LAUREATEArthur Winograd

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS1937ndash41 Francis Goodwin II1941ndash51 Willard B Rogers1951ndash53 John E Ellsworth1951ndash55 Henry P Bakewell1955ndash56 Albert E Holland1956ndash58 Edward N Allen1958ndash60 Charles A Spoerl1960ndash62 Francis Goodwin II1962ndash64 Charles B Milliken1964ndash65 Henry S Beers1965ndash68 Charles E Lord1968ndash71 Gordon N Farquhar1971ndash73 Paul A Benke1973ndash75 Christopher Larsen1975ndash78 Henry S Robinson Jr1978ndash79 Harold C Kraus1978ndash81 Robert J von Dohlen1981ndash83 John C Parish1983ndash85 Robert J Birnbaum1985ndash87 Coleman H Casey1987ndash89 Morton E Handel1989ndash91 Arthur L Handman1991ndash93 Peter S Burgess1993ndash94 Arthur L Handman1994ndash96 Dwight Johnson1996ndash99 Margery S Steinberg1999ndash02 Millard H Pryor2002ndash04 Thomas R Wildman Esq2004ndash07 David M Roth2007ndash09 Kenneth A Jacobson Esq2009ndash10 Pierre H Guertin2010ndash11 David M Roth

Good thinking

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1 1

Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

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Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

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IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

2 3

Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

1 9

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

2 0

Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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Happy spring friends of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra After a long and snowy winter we are thrilled that spring is finally here ndash and

soon to follow ndash summer With that in mind I invite you to make your summer plans now with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Grass Passes tables and single tickets are all on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival which begins June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury This summerrsquos lineup is certain to delight music fans of all ages ndash so pack up your family friends and a picnic and head out to Simsbury

The Mambo Kings will bring a fiesta of Latin rhythm and contemporary jazz on Friday June 26 (rain date Saturday June 27) From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzolla and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente to the rhythmic playfulness of Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles the Mambo Kings will take you on a worldwide Latin jazz tour

July kicks off with our annual red white and blue tradition with fireworks Celebrate America on Friday July 3 (rain date Saturday July 4) Led by guest conductor and Simsbury High grad Eric Dudley and featuring the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir this program will feature such patriotic favorites as ldquoThe Star Spangled Bannerrdquo ldquoArmed Forces Saluterdquo Tchaikovskyrsquos ldquo1812 Overturerdquo and more Plus music of the Americas including spirituals South American folk music Dixieland and more

On Friday July 10 (rain date Saturday July 11) we will celebrate two decades of summer music and memories with 20 Seasons in Simsbury featuring musical highlights from 20 great years of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conducted by former HSO Music Director and first-ever Talcott Mountain Music Festival Conductor Michael Lankester this concert will include all the fan-favorites

Boogie down with the ultimate disco band on Friday July 17 (rain date Saturday July 18) Classical Night Fever will have you dancing to the disco hits of the 1970s ndash complete with bell-bottoms big hair wild polyester suits and some of the coolest platform shoes this side of the Milky Way Itrsquos a feel-good musical extravaganza you wonrsquot soon forget conducted by HSO Music Director Carolyn Kuan

We will rock you on Friday July 24 (rain date Saturday July 25) with The Music of Queen Hear the distinctive sound of Queen with the added musical color of the HSO Las Vegas star Brody Dolyniuk perfectly captures the spirit of Freddie Mercury

All concerts are at 730 pm ndash for tickets and information visit our website wwwhartfordsymphonyorg or call 860-987-5900 See you in Simsbury

Steve CollinsDirector of Artistic Operations and Administration

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Letter from the Director of Artistic Operations and Administration

1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

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Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

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1 2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No 6 in F Major K 43 (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante III Menuetto IV Allegro

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

BEETHOVEN amp MOZART SYMPHONY NO 6

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 7 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 8 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 9 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 10 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorGAVIN HOLLAND boy soprano

HARTFORD CHORALERichard Coffey music director

BETH EL TEMPLE CHORUSJoseph Ness cantor and director

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL CHORUSPamela Siskin cantor and director

Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

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IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

2 0

Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

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Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (1918-1990) I Psalm 1082 Psalm 100 II Psalm 23 Psalm 21-4 III Psalm 131 Psalm 1331 Gavin Holland boy soprano Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey music director Beth El Temple Chorus Joseph Ness cantor and director Congregation Beth Israel Chorus Pamela Siskin cantor and director Natasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

-INTERMISSION-

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 in F Major Op 68 ldquoPastoralerdquo (1770-1827) I Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo II Scene by the brook Andante molto mosso III Merry assembly of country folk Allegro IV Thunderstorm Allegro V Shepherdrsquos Song ndash Happy grateful feelings after the storm Allegretto

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

2 3

Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Notes on the Program

WOlFgANg AMADEuS MOzART(Born January 27 1756 in Salzburgdied December 5 1791 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major K 43 (1767)

When Leopold Mozart first displayed his prodigy son to Vienna in 1763 the seven-year-old boy was greeted with wonder and good cheer he bounded into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa threw his arms around her neck and delivered a kiss to the imperial cheek he ordered the Emperor off the piano bench so that Georg Wagenseil could sit next to him and turn pages while he played one of that local composerrsquos concertos he could hardly keep up with the invitations from the aristocracy to observe his nascent genius for themselves When the family returned to Vienna in September 1767 however eleven-year-old Wolfgang had become rather too big for any imperial knee-bouncing and his feats as a keyboard performer no longer created their former sensation Though Maria Theresa granted the Mozarts an audience their reception was only lukewarm and many of the cityrsquos aping aristocracy followed the Empressrsquo example Papa Leopold did manage to wrangle a commission for a new opera buffa La Finta Semplice (K 51 ldquoThe Pretended Simpletonrdquo) from Giuseppe Affligio the impresario of the court theaters but intrigues set against the Mozarts by local musicians wary of the threatening competition posed by the boyrsquos now obvious genius scuttled the workrsquos production which was not staged until May 1769 in Salzburg

Offsetting somewhat the disappointments of the familyrsquos second Vienna venture (some no doubt caused by the unease over Wolfgangrsquos infection during a smallpox outbreak in October he recovered quickly but bore the diseasersquos characteristic facial scars for the rest of his life) were the invitations that young Mozart

received to perform at private concerts from court Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno court poet Pietro Metastasio composer Johann Hasse the pioneering physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer Prince Kaunitz the Duke of Braganza and other notable personages To provide some new music for those occasions he composed four symphonies (K 43 45 45b 48) during his fifteen-month residency in Vienna absorbing into them such favored local orchestral practices as motivically based textures use of wind instruments to supplement the core string ensemble and inclusion of a minuet to expand the fastndashslowndashfast plan of the genrersquos early Italian models to a full four movements The earliest of those symphonies No 6 in F major (K 43) was probably begun before the Mozarts left Salzburg in September 1767 and completed in Vienna by the end of the year a few weeks shy of Wolfgangrsquos twelfth birthday

The main theme of the Symphonyrsquos opening Allegro as is typical of the melodically fecund Mozart includes three short motives martial delicate and bustling A vigorous transition leads to a short pause and the second subject a smooth first violin melody buoyed upon sweet harmonies in the lower strings The succinct development section is primarily concerned with the martial opening motive which is truncated to a few cadential figures in the formal recapitulation before the second subject appropriately adjusted as to key returns intact Mozartrsquos remarkable ability to conjure musical magic from the stock gestures of his day is heard nowhere better than in the Andante which creates sublime tonal moonlight from the Rococo conventions of muted violins ticking pizzicato accompaniment and languid flutes (which at that time would have been played by the same instrumentalists handling the oboes in the other movements) The thematic material is borrowed from the duet Natus cadit atque Deus from the Latin-language opera Apollo et Hyacinthus Mozartrsquos first stage work which was premiered at Salzburg University in May 1767 The Menuetto is rather staid and formal perhaps a reflection of the courtly manners that Mozart was required to assume for his appearances at Viennarsquos noble houses The finale in a modified sonata form similar to that of the first movement is built around the bounding 68 theme given at the outset with enough contrasts of texture dynamics and harmonies to bring the movement into formal and expressive balance

World Premiere December 30 1767Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation 2 flutes 2 oboes 1 clarinet 2 horns and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 17rsquo

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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Notes on the Program

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luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

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Impact Fund

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CompanyUBS Financial Services

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AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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Notes on the Program

lEONARD BERNSTEIN(Born August 25 1918 in Lawrence Massachusetts

died October 14 1990 in New York City)

Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir Boy Soloist and Orchestra (1965)

These psalms are a simple and modest affairTonal and tuneful and somewhat squareCertain to sicken a stout John CagerWith its tonics and triads in E-flat majorBut there it stands mdash the result of my ponderingTwo long months of avant-garde wandering mdash My youngest child old-fashioned and sweetAnd he stands on his own two tonal feet

Leonard Bernstein that Renaissance man among late-20th-century musicians penned these verses about his Chichester Psalms for The New York Times as part of a poetic evaluation of the fifteen months of his sabbatical from conducting in 1964-1965 Bernstein considered several compositional projects during his year away from the rigorous duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic including a theater piece based on Thornton Wilderrsquos The Skin of Our Teeth but it was this set of Psalms for choir and orchestra that was the principal musical offspring of that hiatus in his public career

The work was commissioned by the Very Rev Walter Hussey Dean of Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival in which the musicians of Chichester have participated with those of the neighboring cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester since 1959 The musical traditions of these great cathedrals extend far back into history to at least the time when the eminent early 17th-century keyboard artist and composer Thomas Weelkes occupied the organ bench at Chichester

The mood of the Chichester Psalms is humble and serene unlike the powerful but despairing nature of

Bernsteinrsquos ldquoKaddishrdquo Symphony of 1963 composed shortly before this work Both use traditional texts sung in Hebrew but the message of the Psalms is one of manrsquos closeness to God rather than the one of frustration and anger and shaken faith engendered by Godrsquos inexplicable acts as portrayed by the ldquoKaddishrdquo It is indicative that the composer chose the 23rd Psalm (ldquoThe Lord is my Shepherdrdquo) for the second movement the heart of the Chichester Psalms

The first movement opens with a broad chorale (ldquoAwake psaltery and harprdquo) that serves as the structural buttress for the entire composition It is transformed in quick tempo to open and close the dance-like main body of this movement (in 74 meter) and it reappears at the beginning and end of the finale in majestic settings The bounding sprung rhythms and exuberant energy of the fast music of the first movement are a perfect embodiment of the text ldquoMake a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsrdquo

The touching simplicity of the second movement recalls the pastoral song of David the young shepherd The sopranos take over the melody from the boy soloist and carry it forward in gentle but strict imitation Suddenly threatening music is hurled forth by the menrsquos voices punctuated by slashing chords from the orchestra They challenge the serene strains of peace with the harsh question ldquoWhy do the nations ragerdquo The quiet song temporarily banished reappears in the high voices like calming oil on troubled waters The hard tones subside and once again the boy shepherd sings and strums upon his harp As a coda the mechanistic sounds of conflict soft but worrisome enter once again as if blown on an ill wind from some distant land

The finale begins with an instrumental prelude based on the stern chorale that opened the work The muted solo trumpet and the harp recall a phrase from the shepherdrsquos song to mark the central point of this introductory strain The chorus intones a gently swaying theme on the text ldquoLord Lord My heart is not haughtyrdquo The Chichester Psalms concludes with yet another adaptation of the recurring chorale here given new words and a deeper meaning This closing sentiment is not only the central message of the work and the linchpin of its composerrsquos philosophy of life but also is a thought which all must hold dear in troubled times

Behold how good And how pleasant it isFor brethren to dwellTogether in unity

World Premiere July 15 1965Most Recent HSO Performance May 1 1994Instrumentation 3 trumpets 3 trombones timpani glockenspiel xylophone chimes tambourine woodblock temple blocks guiro snare drum triangle bongos cymbals suspended cymbal bass drum whip 2 harps solo boy soprano solo quartet SATB choir and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 18rsquo

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Notes on the Program

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

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Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

1 9

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

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Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

2 5

SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

3 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

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Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

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2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

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CompanyMetLife Foundation

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Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

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Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

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FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

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of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

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Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

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Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

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Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

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Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

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Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

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The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

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Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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HRT6

1 6

IPsalm 108 verse 2Urah hanevel vrsquochinor Awake psaltery and harpA-irah shahar I will rouse the dawn

Psalm 100 entireHariu lrsquoAdonai kol haarets Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye landsIvrsquodu et Adonai brsquosimcha Serve the Lord with gladnessBo-u lrsquofanav birrsquonanah Come before His presence with singingDrsquou ki Adonai Hu Elohim Know ye that the Lord He is GodHu asanu vrsquolo anahnu It is He that hath made us and not we ourselvesAmo vrsquotson marrsquoito We are His people and the sheep of His pastureBo-u shrsquoarav brsquotodah Enter into His gates with thanksgivingHatseirotav bitrsquohilah And into His courts with praiseHodu lo barrsquochu shrsquomo Be thankful unto Him and bless His nameKi tov Adonai lrsquoolam hasrsquodo For the Lord is good His mercy is everlastingVrsquoad dor vador emunato And His truth endureth to all generations

IIPsalm 23 entireAdonai ro-i lo ehsar The Lord is my shepherd I shall not wantBinrsquoot deshe yarbitseini He maketh me to lie down in green pasturesAl mei mrsquonuhot yrsquonahaleini He leadeth me beside the still watersNaf rsquoshi yrsquoshovev He restoreth my soulYanrsquoheini brsquomarsquoaglei tsedek He leadeth me in the paths of righteousnessLrsquomarsquoan shrsquomo For His namersquos sakeGam ki eilech Yea though I walkBrsquogei tsalmavet Through the valley of the shadow of deathLo ira ra I will fear no evilKi Atah imadi For Thou art with meShivrsquotrsquocha umishanrsquotecha Thy rod and Thy staffHeimah yrsquonahamuni They comfort me

Tarsquoaroch lrsquofanai shulchan Thou preparest a table before meNeged tsorrsquorai In the presence of mine enemiesDishanta vashemen roshi Thou annointest my head with oilCosi rrsquovayah My cup runneth overAch tov vahesed Surely goodness and mercyYirdrsquofuni kol yrsquomei hayai Shall follow me all the days of my lifeVrsquoshavrsquoti brsquoveit Adonai And I will dwell in the house of the LordLrsquoorech yamim Forever

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Notes on the Program

1 7

Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

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Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

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About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

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Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

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Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Psalm 2 verses 1-4Lamah ragrsquoshu goyim Why do the nations rageUlrsquoumim yehrsquogu rik And the people imagine a vain thingYitrsquoyatsrsquovu malchei erets The kings of the earth set themselvesVrsquoroznim nosrsquodu yahad And the rulers take counsel togetherAl Adonai vrsquoal mrsquoshiho Against the Lord and against His annointedNrsquonatkah et mosrsquoroteimo Saying let us break their bonds asunderVrsquonashlichah mimenu avoteimo And cast away their cords from usYoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavensYisrsquohak Adonai Shall laugh and the LordYilrsquoag lamo Shall have them in derision

IIIPsalm 131 entireAdonai Adonai Lord LordLo gavah libi My heart is not haughtyVrsquolo ramu einai Nor mine eyes loftyVrsquolo hilachti Neither do I exercise myselfBigrsquodolot uvrsquoniflaot In great matters or in thingsMimeni Too wonderful for meIm lo shiviti Surely I have calmedVrsquodomamrsquoti And quieted myselfNaf rsquoshi krsquogamul alei imo As a child that is weaned of his motherKagamul alai naf rsquoshi My soul is even as a weaned childYahel Yisrsquorael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the LordMersquoatah vrsquoad olam From henceforth and forever

Psalm 133 verse 1Hineh mah tov Behold how goodUmah nayim And how pleasant it isShevet ahim For brethren to dwellGam yahad Together in unity

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

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Impact Fund

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CompanyUBS Financial Services

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AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

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THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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Notes on the Program

luDWIg vAN BEETHOvEN(Born December 16 1770 in Bonn

died March 26 1827 in Vienna)

Symphony No 6 in F major Op 68 ldquoPastoralrdquo (1807-1808)

There is a fine and often fluid line that separates program and absolute music Usually composers intend their work to be heard either with some extra-musical reference or as a universe unto itself but Beethoven tried to link both worlds in his ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony This work with its birdcalls and its horncalls its thunder wind and rain its peasant dances and babbling brooks is decidedly and lovably programmatic Yet the composer insisted that the Symphony is ldquomore an expression of feeling than paintingrdquo mdash that it is more pure abstract emotion than naiumlve imitations of various familiar country noises It is in truth both

The extra-musical associations of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony run far deeper than its imitations of nightingales and rainstorms Actually there are at least three layers of ldquomeaningrdquo here The first and most obvious of these three is the evocation of natural noises but this was only a point of departure for Beethoven into the second degree of reference in this work since these woodland sounds were simply the external manifestations of what was for him a much deeper reality that God was to be found in every tree in every brook indeed that God and Nature are if not the same certainly indivisible It was into this pantheistic philosophy that Beethoven retreated when his deafness became profound As he grew increasingly alienated from the world of men he sought and found refuge in Nature ldquoHow happy I am to be able to wander among the bushes and grass under trees and over rocks no man can love the country as I love itrdquo he rejoiced He sought to voice his essential belief in the divinity of Nature in this Sixth Symphony just as he sought in the Ninth Symphony to express another of his fundamental ideas the hope for universal brotherhood The second layer of meaning in this work is in the

words of Basil Lam ldquonot that it is merely descriptive but in the broadest sense religiousrdquo

The third plane on which the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony exists is heavily influenced by the other two This third layer the purely musical reflects the stability the calm and the sense of the infinite that Beethoven perceived in Nature ldquoOh the sweet stillness of the woodsrdquo he wrote The style in which he chose to cast this work has about it a certain noble simplicity an uncluttered directness of expression that implies the balm that Nature must have been for the composerrsquos troubled soul Missing from the Sixth Symphony are the dramatic contrasts and profound emotional journeys of the contemporaneous Symphony No 5 Instead each movement combines a singularity of mood with a deep quiet spiritual satisfaction to create a sense of massive grandeur of infinite continuity as though Beethoven had unearthed music that had always existed as part of the rocks and hills he loved so much It is from this deep core of the music that Beethoven derived the unusual formal device of a fifth movement a departure from the four-movement symphonic standard that had been the norm since Haydnrsquos early works of nearly a half-century earlier This inserted movement depicts a storm through the thunderous rumblings of the basses and timpani the lightning flashes of the piccolo and the gusts of the trombones More than simply a contrast to the surrounding movements this section serves as a foil to set the tranquility of the rest of the Symphony into bold relief ldquoThe Darkness Declares the Glory of the Lightrdquo has here become music The ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony the most gentle and child-like work that Beethoven ever composed grants us not only a deeper understanding of the great composer but also through his vision a heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us

Beethoven gave each of the five movements of the

ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony a title describing its general character The first movement filled with verdant sweetness and effusive good humor is headed The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings at the Arrival in the Country The violins present a simple theme which pauses briefly after only four measures as though the composer were alighting from a coach and taking a deep breath of the sparkling fragrant air before beginning his brisk walk along a shaded path The melody grows more vigorous before it quiets to lead almost imperceptibly to the second theme a descending motive played by violins over a rustling string accompaniment Again the spirits swell and

World Premiere December 22 1808Most Recent HSO Performance June 7 2009Instrumentation 2 flutes 1 piccolo 2 clarinets 2 oboes 2 bassoons 2 horns 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 39rsquo

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

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About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

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About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

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About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

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Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

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Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

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About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

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About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Notes on the Program

then relax before the main theme returns to occupy most of the development To conclude the first movement the recapitulation returns the themes of the exposition in more richly orchestrated settings a common practice in the 19th-century symphony It is worth noting that the textural figuration Beethoven supplied for this movement and for most of this Symphony contributes an aura of relaxed yet constant motion to the music Indeed the ldquobackgroundrdquo throughout this Symphony is of unfailing interest and is as important as the themes in defining the sylvan character of the music There is a fascination in listening to these inner voices of perceiving the multiple planes of the texture an experience comparable in the visual world to discerning the play of light and shade in the layers of foliage of a great tree or spying a darting fish beneath the shimmering surface of a rushing stream There is even one extended section in the finale (noted below) where Beethoven dispensed with the ldquomelodyrdquo completely and continued with only the ldquoaccompanimentrdquo

The second movement Scene at the Brook continues the mood and undulant figuration of the preceding movement The music of this movement is almost entirely without chromatic harmony and exudes an air of tranquility amid pleasing activity The form is a sonata-allegro whose opening theme starts with a fragmentary idea in the first violins above a rich accompaniment The second theme begins with a descending motion like that of the first movement but then turns back upward to form an inverted arch A full development section utilizing the main theme follows The recapitulation recalls the earlier themes with enriched orchestration and leads to a most remarkable coda In the closing pages of this movement the rustling accompaniment ceases while all Nature seems to hold its breath to listen to the songs of three birds mdash the nightingale the dove and the cuckoo Twice this tiny avian concert is performed before the movement comes quietly to its close When later Romantic composers sought stylistic and formal models for their works it was to Beethoven that they turned and when program music was the subject this coda was their object

Beethoven titled the scherzo Merry Gathering of the Peasants and filled the music with a rustic bumptiousness and simple humor that recall a hearty if somewhat ungainly country dance The trio shifts to duple meter for a stomping dance before the scherzo returns The festivity is halted in mid-step by the distant thunder of a Storm portrayed by the rumblings of the low strings Beethoven built a convincing storm scene here through the tempestuous use of the tonal and timbral resources of the orchestra that stands in bold contrast to the surrounding movements of this Symphony As the storm passes away over the horizon the silvery voice of the flute leads directly into the finale Shepherdrsquos Song Joyful Thankful Feelings after the Storm The clarinet and then the horn sing the unpretentious melody of the shepherd which returns rondo-fashion to support the form of the movement It is at the expected third hearing of this theme that the melody is deleted leaving only the luxuriant accompaniment to furnish the background for imagining the rustic tune The mood of well-being and contented satisfaction continues to the end of this wonderful work

Hector Berlioz writing with his customary Romantic effulgence had the following to say of the ldquoPastoralrdquo Symphony ldquoAncient poems however beautiful and admired they may be pale into insignificance when compared with this marvel of music This great poem of Beethoven mdash these long phrases so richly colored mdash these living pictures mdash these perfumes mdash that light mdash that eloquent silence mdash that vast horizon mdash these enchanted nooks secreted in the woods mdash those golden harvests mdash those rose-tinted clouds like wandering flocks on the surface of the sky mdash that immense plain seeming to slumber under the rays of the midday sunhellip Yes great and adored poets you are conquered Inclyte sed victi [lsquoYou are glorious but vanquishedrsquo]rdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

3 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

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projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

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of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Gavin Holland 11 years old and originally from Amsterdam NY has

three older brothers and one younger sister He also of course has two parents Gavin enjoys sports of all kinds but is especially passionate about soccer which he has been playing since he was three years old Gavin loves to sing to perform in plays (his favorite part was as Kurt in ldquoThe Sound of Musicrdquo) and to play the ukulele Gavin loves reading especially the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter series and computer and video games of all kinds He loves to travel and last year spent a month in Spain with CISV Gavin is an honor roll student at the Springfield Renaissance School where he is currently in the 6th grade

Since 2005 RichaRd coffey has been the Music Director of the Hartford

Chorale the regionrsquos principal symphonic chorus which appears frequently with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and offers significant concerts on its own and in association with other orchestras and instrumental ensembles In this role Mr Coffey has conducted the Chorale and the Hartford Symphony in concerts of major works in Hartfordrsquos Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and other venues In 2008 Mr Coffey and the Hartford Chorale with the New York Choral Society engaged in a singing tour of China at the special invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Peoplesrsquo Republic of China presenting performances of Beethovenrsquos Ninth Symphony and Philip Glassrsquos epic tone poem Itaipu

Since 1972 Mr Coffey has been Minister of Music for South Church in New Britain Connecticut where he directs a distinguished choir of professional and volunteer musicians in liturgy and in concert In 1973 he established The Music Series at South Church a community performing arts presenter and in 2003 he established through South Church a region-wide nonsectarian choir for children The Main Street Singers Mr Coffey has served on the music faculties of the Hartt School and of the University of Connecticut From 1998 until 1993 he was Chorus Master for the Connecticut Opera Association In 2014 Mr Coffey stepped down as Artistic Director of CONCORA Connecticut Choral Artists which he founded in 1974 as the regionrsquos first all-professional concert choir

In 1992 Mr Coffey was named Choral Director of the Year by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in recognition of ldquooutstanding contributions to the advancement of choral music through distinguished service and

the highest standards of performancerdquo In 2007 he received a Major Achievement Award from The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his ldquooutstanding and inspiring artistic leadership of the Symphonyrsquos two major choral partners CONCORA and the Hartford Choralerdquo and in 2008 the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance presented him its award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Mr Coffey is the 2009 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England

gAvIN HOllAND boy soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

RICHARD COFFEYmusic director

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Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

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Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

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Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

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Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

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Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

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Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Congratulations

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

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2 1

Mr Coffey holds music degrees from the University of North Carolina and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York In 1979 he received the premier prix drsquoorgue after studies with organist Marie-Claire Alain at Francersquos Eacutecole National de Musique Rueil-Malmaison

Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El Temple is the composer orchestrator

and arranger of hundreds of pieces of music spanning both the liturgical and concert genres He has been commissioned and worked with major musical figures such as Lukas Foss Fred Sherry David Krakauer Zvi Zeitlin Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger among others and he continues to compose and arrange for the leading cantors of our time

Many orchestras and ensembles have also commissioned him including the Brooklyn Philharmonic St Louis Symphony Springfield Symphony Rhode Island Philharmonic the Jerusalem Symphony Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Manchester Orchestra (England) American Symphony Orchestra Fort Lauderdale Symphony The Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon) the Group for Contemporary Music and The Washington Festival Orchestra among others

Ness has conducted several choral-orchestral masterpieces such as the Brahms German Requiem The Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven and Mendelssohnrsquos Elijah ndash in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music

Ness has over the past 25 years developed a music program at Beth El Temple that has produced concerts that along with the orchestra and choirs made music that are filled with both liturgical and music of the repertoire

Most recently Cantor Ness completed an impressive series of Music Lectures at Beth El Temple of West Hartford as well as one memorable performance film and panel discussion focusing on the relationship between composer Richard Wagner and his Jewish colleagues

Ness is honored to have the Beth El Choir participate on this wonderful program by the Hartford Symphony

Cantor pamela siskiN was born in London and studied music at

Trinity College in London and opera at The London Opera Studio attached to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in England After singing with The Royal Opera for several years she became Principal Mezzo-Soprano with the Israel National Opera In 1985 she decided

to continue her musical and religious studies in the Unites States of America Cantor Siskin became a student at the Hebrew Union College in New York City earning a Masters degree in Sacred Music and more recently was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music She was ordained in 1989 During her studies she served pulpits in East Falmouth Massachusetts and New Jersey before joining Congregation Beth Israel West Hartford where she became Cantor and Director of Education and Lifelong Learning Cantor Siskin became an American Citizen in 1993 and has served Congregation Beth Israel for seventeen years

PAMElA SISKIN cantor and director

JOSEPH NESS cantor and director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

2 3

Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

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SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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World Class Training Preschool through Professional

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 8

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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HRT6

2 2

Natasha UlyaNovsky conductor pianist organist and vocal

coach is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory of the former USSR She continued her musical studies with L Roizman at the Moscow Conservatory LKramer in Germany and JDalton at the Queenrsquos College Oxford Before emigrating from the USSR in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert (the state concert management for professional musicians) concertizing worldwide She released

two recordings on Melodia label and earned a title of Honored Artist of Abkhazian Republic in 1988 Mrs Ulyanovsky concertized in Hungary Italy Russia Ukraine Georgia Armenia Lithuania Latvia Israel Poland Germany and throughout New England In 2004 she appeared in the program Two Nations-One Love at Carnegie Hall NY She has taught music at Hartt School and CCSUCT Presently she is holding the Music Director position at Beth Israel Congregation and St Brigid Catholic Church in West

Hartford CT and actively performes

NATASHA ulYANOvSKYassistant musical director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

In MemoriamBeloved Director Emeritus

Robinson A Grover

2 3

Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

2 4

SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

2 8

HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

3 0

In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 2

L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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5 9

HRT6

2 3

Celebrating its 43rd season the haRtfoRd choRale has become the primary symphonic chorus of central

Connecticut especially in its critically acclaimed collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Other collaborations of note include performances with the New Haven New Britain and Hartt School Symphony Orchestras

Established in 1972 by a group of choral musicians who had the desire to form a new independent and self-supported organization and under the musical direction of Maestro Richard Coffey since 2005 the Chorale reaches out to and inspires the widest possible audience with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature including renowned choral masterpieces

The Hartford Chorale comprises 180 men and women mostly from central Connecticut with others traveling from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for weekly rehearsals in West Hartford The Chorale offers talented and experienced singers opportunities to study and perform at a professional level while internship programs make it possible for gifted high school and college musicians to rehearse and perform with the Chorale and Connecticut orchestras Led by a 25-member Board of Governors (most of whom are themselves performers) Chorale members sustain and manage their own organization

through their volunteer service fund-raising and dues payments Professional section leaders provide vocal and musical leadership Competitive auditions for new members are conducted annually

While the Chorale performs most often in the Greater Hartford area the ensemble has also been heard at Carnegie Hall as well as in several performance halls in the Northeast United States The Chorale has toured internationally throughout Europe and Asia In June 2008 members of the Chorale performed by special invitation from the Peoplersquos Republic of Chinarsquos Ministry of Culture in Beijing and Qingdao China with the New York Choral Society in the Cultural Olympiad a showcase of the arts preceding the Olympic Games The two ensembles also performed in the opening ceremonies of the Olympiad and were the only American choirs invited to take part in this special and prestigious celebration During the summer of 2014 the Chorale performed in magnificent churches in Paris and Chartres France This tour was highlighted by a performance of the Durufleacute Requiem in the ldquoDurufleacute Churchrdquomdashthe beautiful Eglise St Eacutetienne du Mont and an acapella concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres

Learn more about the Chorale at wwwhartfordchoraleorg

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Meet the Hartford Chorale

2 4

SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

2 5

SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

2 8

HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

2 9

CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

3 0

In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

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HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

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5 9

HRT6

2 4

SOPRANO IGayle Amato Dawn Bauer ++Anne Collin Laura A Conner Chelsea Lynn Cottle +Adriana Dal Pra-

Chichester ++Inge-Marie Eigsti Sara W Felter Danielle Foint Donna M Frezza Elizabeth Gemmell Jean Guthrie Jacqueline K Haefs Valerie Hill-Baker Joanne Huelsman ++Joan B Hultquist ++Wanda M JohnsonSarah Hager Johnston Catherine Kalonia Cathy KaneCarolyn Kimball Laura L KnustChristine Laird Olivia Erin Miller Jane Nevico-DiPillo ~~Susan R Orred Jennifer Stone Osowiecki Daaeacute Zen Ransom +Cathy RiberioPatricia B Ryan Anna Shostak Janet T Stone ++Kathryn Tabachnick Lauren Torres ++ Yun Sook Yoon SOPRANO IIClaudia Ayer Trisha Beatty Janet Caldwell Cover ++ Ruth Dagg ++Mary Lee DuffKristen L Fallon ++ Catherine Fiorillo Diana Garcia Mary Ann Haar Karen Hofheimer

Donna Scott Johnson Eva Kaplan Nancy Jane F Kasper Peggy Kilgore Diane Link Jeanine Lovendale ~Anita Lowry Nancy Mandly Lisa Nappi Susan Pollock Deborah P Reith ~Stephanie E Rosener Edith Savage Susan Shaffer-BartleyKatherine SmallidgeMarilyn Sullivan Priscilla B Viets Jane von Holzhausen Elisa Wagner

ALTO ISusan Adams ++Salli-Jo Borden Lynne BrillLaura B BroadNancy P ClarkLaura B Cook Judith Cooney Katharina A Dienwebel Gail Dumoulin Barbara Dutton Evelyn F Farbman Suzanne Fournier Landy Gobes Nina Hinchee Sherry T Hubbard Carmen Irizarry ++ Kendra Ketchin Heidi Kolle Paula Kuenzler Serena Laws Laurie Miner Linda Steger Olbrys Dougla Pyrke ++Phyllis RigbyKatherine Semyanko +Mary A Simon MD Kathy Sinclair Christine Stanford

ALTO IICarol H Bennett Jessica M BrownNorita BunchBarbara Chase Victoria Chaudhuri Patti Colburn Laura Evans Anne Filion Rachel Garron Janet Gregor ++ Patricia Hugessen Catherine Little Adlyn Loewenthal Carol Mader-Sadighi Elaine Magrey Susan PortaEugenia Siegel Conte Lee Ann Tremback

TENOR IMark ChildGeorge GuigninoRobert Lovendale Michael McAllister Allan M OswaldJack Anthony Pott Richard Riddle Eric J SchulmanJames Tresner MacDara Tynan

TENOR IIAndrew GarettoBrian Grogan Hugh RB Haffenreffer Dylan Koerner David Lesieur Alexander Lubka +Willard PinneyThomas Stickney

BASS IStewart C Battle ++Greg Benoit Robert Brinkerhoff Michael Colburn Joseph Coray Stephen Cottle

Dennis DeLuzio Ben Fink David Howe Richard L Hughes IIIJohn Janeiro Mark Leder Clint Macgowan Hal Rives Winthrop W Smith Richard Tecca ++Brian Treiber Friedemann Weidauer

BASS IIFred Baker Ronald J BeganskyEdwin Below Michael J Dunne ++Don EvansIshaar Gupta +Dennis JohnstonBruce Roy Jones David Kennedy Nathan KloczkoEvan Lambert ++ Dick Loyer Alexander Patrie Matthew Piros Peter Robinson David Snyder Jonathan E Stone Donald Stuber Jerry Theodorou Chris TolsdorfA Peter Wivaag

Administrative Section Leader

Vocal Section Leader (VSL)

+ Student Intern++ Board member~ Librarian~~ Concert Manager

VSLs are supported in part by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Hartford Chorale Singers

Richard Coffey Music DirectorJack Anthony Pott Assistant Conductor

Alan Mann Executive DirectorJames R Barry Accompanist

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SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

2 8

HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

3 0

In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

3 1

An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

3 7

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

3 8

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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2 5

SOPRANOEmily FormanBarbara FriedmanJennifer MaillyMichelle MeyerBeverly SilverDeena Sisitsky

ALTOJudy FitzGeraldDianne FriedmanClaire KatzSheryl Simoni

TENORMitch CohenFred FitzGeraldBobbie Mindell

BASSBob KatzMarc Silver

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congregation Beth Israel Roster

Pamela Siskin cantor and directorNatasha Ulyanovsky assistant musical director

The Beth el choiR some 50 years old has been a major part of the music life of Beth El Temple in West Hartford

The choir has in addition to being part of the various services performed in countless concerts

singing music of many genres from the liturgical to great pieces of the Western choral repertoire as well as music from Broadway musicals folk and ethnic music from all over the world

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus

SOPRANORobin GellesEva KaplanElisa Wagner

ALTORandy FriedmanSusan GoldCarol HatchMichelle Rosenberg

TENORJean-Michel Sibille

BARITONEAbba CaspiRonald FerraroAllan GeetterHarold GeetterPeter LevineMoshe PinchoverMatthew Saidel

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Temple Beth El Chorus Roster

Joseph Ness cantor and director

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Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

2 8

HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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World Class Training Preschool through Professional

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 8

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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2 6

Congratulations to Louis A Lazzerini Assistant Principal Bassoon on his retirement after 48 years of service to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Lou took some time to answer some of our questions before his final concerts in May

Lou began studying bassoon in 1957 as a student of Robert Schaffer Principal Bassoon of the Hartford Symphony and Harold Goltzer Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic He was a scholarship student at Hartt College of Music from which he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree (1961) and his Master of Applied Music degree in bassoon in 1962

Lou won the Hartford Symphony Assistant Principal Bassoon audition in 1968 While continuing in this capacity he served as Acting Principal Bassoon from the 2003 to the 2013 season He has played in several of the area orchestras in Connecticut and Massachusetts Lou was a member of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra

for many years and from 1968 the Connecticut Opera Orchestra His fondest memories with the HSO include playing seven concerts in Carnegie Hall and participating in countless HSO productions These featured the greatest creations of music of the Western World with the finest musicians and conductors in Connecticut

Lou retired from public school education in 1993 after a 32 year career in area schools including Bristol East Windsor Vernon and South Windsor Since his retirement he enjoys an extravagance previously unknown ndash free time

The families of his four children live close by his Coventry residence His ten beloved grandchildren (musicians in their own right) call him ldquoPapardquo or ldquoGrandpardquo and are often at his home during the limitless opportunities for visits He finds that two annual trips to his second home in North Port Florida are rewarding To finally find time to devote exclusively to bassoon performance and to his family is truly a luxury and the true personification of the term ldquoGolden Yearsrdquo

When were you first aware of the HSO In 1955 I received my driverrsquos license I was 16 years old and well able to find my way to The Bushnell I was first introduced to classical music by my mother earlier in my life and was eager to hear it in person Not having the funds to buy a ticket I was successful in finding a seat without the help of an usher (if you understand my meaning) Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired and the cops will not be waiting to pick me up after this performance I submit that I have loved the HSO since then and what a rewarding time it has been

My most amusing memory of playing with the Hartford Symphony ishellipPreparing Beethoven Violin Concerto to perform with Itzhak Perlman Mr Perlamn tapped Maestro Winograd on the shoulder with his bow stopping the orchestra mid-stream at our only rehearsal 24 hours before the performance Perlman chided ldquoWe will be playing Brahmsrdquo After a short conversation with the red-faced conductor Perlman opined ldquoWhat the Hell play Beethovenrdquo

Who is your favorite composer It is difficult to choose a favorite composer from the infinite choices available from the vast literature Each holds a cherished place in my heart for reasons I can hardly explain I just donrsquot know Often a superb melody a tantalizing orchestration or a particularly creative bassoon line will sway me from one to another If an answer were demanded with the threat of bodily harm there is a possibility I might exclaim ldquoGUSTAV MAHLERrdquo

Do you have any parting thoughts for us To my beloved colleagues I say farewell good luck and success For nearly a half century I have been seated beside you From this day forward I will be in front of you listening from the audience It will please me greatly to believe that each of you will derive the same joy as I from your affiliation with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Congratulations

2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

3 4

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

3 5

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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2 7

SERGEI PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 (1891-1953)

AARON COPLAND Two Pieces (1900-1990) I Nocturne (Lento moderato) II Ukelele Serenade (Allegro vivo)

-PAUSE-

ERNŐ DOHNAacuteNYI Sextet in C Major Op 37 (1877-1960) I Allegro appassionata II Intermezzo Adagio III Allegro con sentiment IV Finale Allegro vivace giocoso

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Sunday Serenades

COPLAND amp CONEY ISLANDSunday May 17 2015 | 200 pm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL violinCURT BLOOD clarinetBARBARA HILL horn

LISA RAUTENBERG violinMICHAEL WHEELER viola

ERIC DAHLIN celloMARGREET FRANCIS piano

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth AtheneumLeonid Sigal Artistic Director

This concert is made possible in part by The Helen M Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and

Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

2 8

HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

3 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

3 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

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projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

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of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

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HSO Concertmaster leoNid sigal has enjoyed a multi-faceted

career as a recitalist chamber musician and orchestra leader Since early performances he was praised by audiences and critics for his virtuosity and musical sensitivity Miami Herald wrote ldquoSigal demonstrated what a fine violinist he is playing passionately and cleanly with a soaring tonerdquo and the Hartford Courant echoes ldquoHis tone was consistently sweet He brought a clear sense of phrasing articulation and effortless virtuosityrdquo

Born in Moscow Russia he began violin studies at the age 5 and was accepted to the renowned Gnessin School of Music He went on to attend and graduate with excellence from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Winner of several violin competitions and recipient of the 1993 Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award Mr Sigal moved to the US where he had also studied with Erick Friedman and had taken masterclasses with Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman In 1995 he was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to a prestigious fellowship at the New World Symphony where he was one of the principals and also coached as a conductor

Mr Sigalrsquos experience includes recitals chamber music festival and orchestral appearances in the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria Switzerland Russia Japan and South Korea He has performed under Sir Georg Solti Leonard Bernstein Christoph Eschenbach Michael Tilson Thomas James Levine Herbert Blomstedt to name a few A passionate chamber musician he has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich Evgeny Kissin

Edgar Meyer Joseph Silverstein James Ehnes Roberto Diaz and William Wolfram among others In 2007 he inaugurated and became Artistic Director of the celebrated Sunday Serenades a chamber music series at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Mr Sigalrsquos annual appearances as a soloist with the HSO include highly acclaimed performances of Bruchrsquo Scottish Fantasy and Bernsteinrsquos Serenade Vivaldirsquos The Four Seasons concertos by Mozart Brahms Sibelius Barber and Shostakovich In 2011 Mr Sigal performed and later

recorded the world premiere of Stephen Michael Grycrsquo Violin Concerto ldquoHarmonia Mundirdquo written for him and commissioned by the HSO This season highlights include Brahmsrsquo Double Concerto with cellist David Finckel Mendelssohnrsquos Violin Concerto as well as Chaussonrsquos Poeme and Waxmanrsquos Carmen Phantasy

Mr Sigal also serves as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra as well as a faculty member at University of Hartfordrsquos The Hartt School Previously Associate Concertmaster of the Florida Philharmonic he has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestra He has served as Artistic Director of the Miami Chamber Symphony as well as violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival Since August of 2012 at the invitation of Music Director Gerard Schwarz he has been part of the All Star Orchestra alongside fellow concertmasters and principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic The Met Orchestra Boston San Francisco Cincinnati Minnesota and other major American orchestras

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lEONID SIgAl violin

2 9

CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

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ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

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Foundation

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David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

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We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CURt Blood is a graduate of New England Conservatory He has

been an active teacher and performer in the northeast since 1982 and has performed with many of the arearsquos finest ensembles Mr Blood has held the principal clarinet chair in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) since 1982 With the HSO he has performed at New Yorkrsquos Carnegie Hall and Bostonrsquos Symphony Hall He has toured internationally performing at the International Music Festival at Santander Spain He also serves as principal clarinetist with Buzzards Bay Musicfest in Marion Massachusetts Mr Blood holds teaching positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and The Hartt School of the University of Hartford His past students have performed with ensembles around the country including the United States Coast Guard Band the Albany Symphony Glimmerglass Opera and the Minnesota Orchestra

BaRBaRa hill has been Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony since

2008 having joined the orchestra in 2006 as Fifth Horn In March 2011 Barbara was proud to be featured in the Inaugural Debut Concert of the HSOrsquos new Music Director Carolyn Kuan performing Mozartrsquos Horn Concerto K 495 She has also been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) as both Acting Principal and Second Horn and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra

London Canada While in Vancouver Barbara was featured in a performance of Mozartrsquos Sinfonia Concertante for winds and had a recital of horn music broadcast on CBC Radio for the program WestCoast Performance As a freelance artist Barbara has performed with numerous groups in Houston Vancouver New York and Hartford and her horn playing has been featured on CBS during broadcasts of The Tour de France She has studied with Julie Landsman (former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) Derek Conrod and Nancy Goodearl and has also been a member of both The National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy of Music in Hamilton Ontario

Originally from Guelph Ontario she obtained her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Jerome Ashby and was a recipient of the James Chambers Scholarship She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario and also holds an ARCT in

Piano Performance Barbara has been teaching horn for nearly 20 years and has served as Horn Instructor at The Hotchkiss School and Vancouver Academy of Music She is currently on Faculty at The Hartt School Community Division and Central Connecticut State University She and her husband Jason have 4 children ndash all very active in the Hartt Community Division ndash and reside in Western Connecticut

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

CuRT BlOOD clarinet

BARBARA HIll horn

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

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Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

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End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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In addition to her role as Fanfare Consort Leader lisa RaUteNBeRg performs as a

soloist chamber musician and recording artist She gave her New York City solo concerto debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini Lisa can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical Virgin Classics Newport Classics MCA Decca Nonesuch Telarc Champignon International and Deutsche Grammophone including solo violin work on her recording of Bachrsquos complete Brandenburg Concertos Her album on Sony of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has won numerous awards as well as another Sony recording of the Schubert string quintet and five other recordings using the famous Stradivari quartet from the Smithsonian Ms Rautenberg has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center Orchestra Hall Chicago Boston Symphony Hall Hercules Hall Concertgebow BBC London and at the Proms festival Ms Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University where she was a student of Josef Gingold She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald Lisa is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony

Michael WheeleR currently the HSO Principal Viola began his professional career in the New World Symphony

(Miami Beach) under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas He was a frequent participant in the chamber music series as well as section leader there Following his tenure in New World Mr Wheeler returned to New England where he was Assistant Principal Viola in the Portland Symphony (Maine) as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Classical Orchestra Prior to joining the HSO in 1995-96 season he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony

In addition to the Atheneum series Mr Wheeler has recently been a recitalist and chamber music collaborator at Wesleyan University Central Connecticut State University Simsbury Library and the Loomis Chaffee School He also enjoys teaching

He studied at Indiana University Juilliard and the New England Conservatory and lives in West Hartford with pianist Ruriko Kagiyama their three daughters and dog Joey

ERic dahliN assistant principal cellist of the HSO began his musical

training in Minneapolis with Cynthia Eddie Britt former assistant principal cellist of the

Minnesota Orchestra He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Derek Simpson acclaimed cellist of the Aeolian String Quartet He received his BM from the Hartt School where he studied with David Wells and received an MM from the Yale University School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was recipient of George Houpt Knight Award for Excellence in String Playing

Eric won a position in the HSO during his second year of undergraduate studies and later won the position of assistant principal Eric has served as principal cellist of the Cape Cod Symphony and Summer Music at Harkness He performs with Orchestra New England and the New Haven Symphony

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lISA RAuTENBERg violin

MICHAEl WHEElER viola

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

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AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

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10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

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LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

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Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

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Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

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ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

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James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

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Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

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Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

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WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

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Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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An avid chamber musician Eric has performed extensively in the US and Europe

Locally he can be heard playing with Hop River Chamber Players Wall Street Chamber Players in New Haven and Loomis Chaffeersquos Island Chamber Players In addition to playing with Sunday Serenades he performs frequently on the Trinity College Summer Series and Sundays at the Parlor on Park with Gary Chapman pianist and long-time chamber music partner Eric spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont

Teaching is an important part of Ericrsquos life and he maintains a studio at the Hartt School and at his home His students have won numerous competitions including top prizes at HSO Concerto Competition and CT MTNA Solo Competition and gone on to receive performance degrees from top conservatories including Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory Eric is founder and director of Music Adventure a summer chamber music program which since 1999 has convened in Croatia Austria and Italy Currently Music Adventure (wwwmusicadventurecom) hosts programs for high school string players at Tenuta di Spannocchia a historic agricultural estate near Siena Italy

Eric lives in Tariffville with his girlfriend Katie (also a cellist) two sons Martin and Elias and dog Max

MaRgReet fRaNcis studied at the Eastman School The New England Conservatory and The Hartt School of

Music where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Piano Performance She was the recipient of the Irene Kahn Piano Award and a two time prize winner in the Westport Young Artists Competition Ms Francis has been an

active performer ever since with her performances taking her throughout the USA and Europe She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony for 38 years where she plays piano harpsichord and celesta

As a soloist Ms Francis has appeared with many orchestras throughout the Eastern United States including the Hartford Symphony the Manchester Symphony and the Baroque Arts Chamber Orchestra of DC performing a wide variety of literature including piano concerti harpsichord concerti two piano concerti as well as all of the Bach Brandenburg Concerti In the collaborative arena Ms Francis regularly performs with leading instrumentalists including many of the Hartt faculty members and members of the Miami String Quartet Lark String Quartet Lions Gate Trio Adaskin String Trio and the Hartford Symphony She also spent several years playing piano with the New World Chamber Ensemble a chamber group known for its championing of works by contemporary composers Other chamber music performances have included appearances with Chamber Music

Plus the Soni Fidelis Woodwind Quintet and Trio ARIOSO As an accompanist she works regularly with world renowned instrumentalists including performances at the National Flute Convention and the International French Horn Convention Her performances have been recorded for the Centaur label and regularly broadcast over radio and TV

Ms Francis is at present on the collegiate faculty of The Hartt School where she serves as the Chair of the Piano Department as well as serving as the Chair of the Piano Department of The Hartt School Community Division

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ERIC DAHlIN cello

MARgREET FRANCIS piano

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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HRT6

3 2

AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1900-1990) PLEASE SEE INSERT Fanfare for the Hartford Woman World Premiere

JOHN MACKEY Harvest Concerto for Trombone (b 1973) Brian Diehl trombone

-INTERMISSION-

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

MAHLERrsquoS FOURTH

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Thursday May 28 2015 | 730 pmFriday May 29 2015 | 800 pm

Saturday May 30 2015 | 800 pmSunday May 31 2015 | 300 pm

Belding Theater The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

CAROLYN KUAN conductorJAMILYN MANNING-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHL trombone

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The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

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This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 2

L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

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Patron Information

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Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

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For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

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Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

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3 3

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G Major (1860-1911) I Bedaumlchtig nicht eilen II In gemaumlchlicher Bewegung ohne Hast III Ruhevoll IV Sehr behaglich Jamilyn Manning-White soprano

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Masterworks Series

The 2014-2015 Masterworks Series is presented by

-continued-

This concert is sponsored bySAuNDERS FuND FOR INNOvATIvE PROgRAMMINg

The Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition is sponsored byDR AlBERT HuRWIT

Additional sponsors for the Fanfare for the Hartford Woman Composition Competition areHARTFORD BuSINESS JOuRNAl

NANCY BERNSTEINJO CHAMPlIN CASEY

DONNA COllINSROSEMARY gAIDOSREv SuSAN S IzARD

REBECCA CORBIN lOREEBONNIE MAllEY

YvETTE MElENDEzPATRICIA SAlNER

CATHERINE SMITHDIANE WHITNEY

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

4 3

JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

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Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

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Carl Elsishans

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Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Notes on the Program

AARON COPlAND(Born November 14 1900 in Brooklyn New York died

December 2 1990 in North Tarrytown New York)

Fanfare for the Common Man for Brass and Percussion (1942)

In the first volume of his autobiography (Copland 1900 through 1942 St MartinrsquosMarek 1984) the composer recounted the genesis of his popular Fanfare for the Common Man

ldquoEugene Goossens conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had written to me at the end of August [1942] about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers [Goossensrsquo additional requests inspired a total of ten fanfares from such other notable musicians as Creston Cowell Piston Thomson Milhaud and Gould] Goossens wrote lsquoIt is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort so that I suggest you give your fanfare a title as for instance ldquoA Fanfare for Soldiers or for Airmen or Sailorsrdquo I am asking this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at hearthelliprsquo As with Lincoln Portrait I was gratified to participate in a patriotic activity Goossens a composer himself suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and a length of about two minutes He intended to open the concert season in October with my fanfare so I had no time to lose

ldquoThe challenge was to compose a traditional fanfare direct and powerful yet with a contemporary soundhellip The music was not terribly difficult to compose but working slowly as was my custom I did not have the fanfare ready to send to Goossens until November The piece has been Fanfare for the Common Man for so long that it is surprising to see on my sketches that other titles were considered Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony for the Day of Victory for Our Heroes for the Rebirth of Lidice for the Spirit of

Democracy for the Paratroops for Four Freedoms After I decided on Fanfare for the Common Man and sent the score to Goossens I think he was rather puzzled by the title He wrote lsquoIts title is as original as its music and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance If it is agreeable to you we will premiere it 14 March [sic] 1943 at income tax timehelliprsquo [The income tax deadline was changed to April after the war] I was all for honoring the common man at income tax time

ldquoSince that occasion Fanfare has been played by many and varied ensembles ranging from the US Air Force Band to the popular Emerson Lake and Palmer grouphellip I confess that I prefer Fanfare in the original version and I later used it in the final movement of my Third Symphonyrdquo

JOHN MACKEY(Born October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio)

Harvest Concerto for Trombone (2009)

John Mackey born on October 1 1973 in New Philadelphia Ohio received his bachelorrsquos degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his principal composition teacher was Donald Erb and his masterrsquos from the Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano Mackeyrsquos works have been performed at such leading American venues as Carnegie Hall Kennedy Center Alice Tully Hall and Jacobrsquos Pillow Dance Festival as well as in Australia Europe Japan and South America He has received commissions from the Parsons Dance Company Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra American Bandmasters Association Dallas Wind Symphony New York City Balletrsquos Choreographic Institute Dallas Theater Center Alvin Ailey Dance Company New York Youth Symphony Jeanne Ruddy Dance and many others A frequent collaborator Mackey has worked with a diverse range of artists from Doug Varone to

World Premiere March 12 1943Most Recent HSO Performance January 30 2009Instrumentation 4 horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani bass drum and tamtamDuration 3rsquo

World Premiere March 12 2010 Most Recent HSO Performance This is the HSOrsquos first performance of this workInstrumentation Solo trombone 3 flutes piccolo 2 oboes English horn Eb clarinet 2 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 2 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones bass trombone tuba timpani vibraphone cymbals tom-toms xylophone bass drum piano harp and double bassDuration 18rsquo

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Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

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Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

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Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

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Impact Fund

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CompanyUBS Financial Services

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AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

David Parsons from Robert Battle to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team (The team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to his score Damn) He has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Award Morton Gould Young Composer Award) American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant) Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grant) NEA grant Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize and ABAOstwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association (the youngest composer to receive that honor instituted in 1956) he was a CalArtsAlpert Award nominee in 2000 Mackeyrsquos residencies include the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Florida State University University of Michigan Ohio State University Arizona State University University of Southern California and University of Texas John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999 to 2003 and taught at Cal State Long Beach in 2008-2009

Mackey wrote that Harvest Concerto for Trombone composed in 2009 for Joseph Alessi Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic on a commission from a consortium of 21 concert bands and universities across the country organized by the West Point Academy Band ldquois based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus As the Olympian god of the vine Dionysus is famous for inspiring ecstasy and creativity But this agricultural earth-walking god was also subjected each year to a cycle of agonizing death before glorious rebirth analogous to the harsh pruning and long winter the vines endure before blooming again in the spring The Concertorsquos movements attempt to represent this dual nature and the cycle of suffering and return

ldquoHarvest is in three connected sections lasting approximately eighteen minutes The first section begins with a slow introduction heavy on ritualistic percussion representing the summoning of Dionysusrsquo worshippers to the ceremony The rite itself builds in intensity with Dionysus (represented by the solo trombone) engaging in call and response with his followers some of whom are driven to an ecstatic outcry mdash almost a lsquospeaking in tonguesrsquo mdash represented by insistent woodwind trills But when Dionysus transitions to a gentler tone his frenzied worshippers do not follow Their fervor overcomes them and they tear their god to shreds in an act of ritual madness

ldquoThis brutal sacrifice by the ecstatic worshippers mdash the pruning of the vine mdash is followed without pause by the second section representing Dionysus in the stillness of death or winter The god is distant the music like a prayer

ldquoThe shoots of spring burst forth in the final section following again without pause The earth is reborn as Dionysus rises once more inciting the ecstasy and liberation that have been celebrated in his name for centuriesrdquo

guSTAv MAHlER(Born July 7 1860 in Kalist Bohemia

died May 18 1911 in Vienna)

Symphony No 4 in g major for Soprano and Orchestra (1899-1900)

ldquoTo write a symphony is for me to construct a worldrdquo This dictum expressed in many ways was Mahlerrsquos self-professed philosophy of music He tried to channel all his experiences mdash mundane transcendent terrifying sensual mdash into music and then to weave them all into a giant quilt of variegated emotional colors so that almost all of his symphonies reveal a surprising number of different ldquokindsrdquo of music mdash marches stand beside love songs pedantic contrapuntal constructions beside peasant dances boisterous drinking ditties beside profound spiritual probings Similarly the entire body of his symphonic work shows evidence of comprising one great ldquoworldrdquo one cosmic thought in a given symphony being balanced by another of a different stripe in the succeeding symphony Thus Bruno Walter that magnificent conductor of recent memory and a dear friend of Mahler and champion of his music was able to write about the first four symphonies in the following manner

ldquoIn [them] an important part of the history of Mahlerrsquos soul is unfolded The force of spiritual events is matched by the power of musical language

World Premiere November 25 1901Most Recent HSO Performance March 23 2002Instrumentation 4 flutes 2 piccolos 3 oboes English horn Eb clarinet3 Bb clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon 4 horns 3 trumpets timpani sleigh bells glockenspiel triangle cymbals tamtam bass drum harp solo soprano and strings violin I violin II viola violoncello double bassDuration 54rsquo

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Notes on the Program

The correlation of the world of sound and that of imagination thoughts and emotions is thus common to them While however in the First the subjective experience with its tempest of emotions is exerting its influence upon the music metaphysical questions strive to find an answer and deliverance in the music in the Second and in subsequent symphonies Three times he gives the answer and every time from a different point of view In the Second he asks the reason for the tragedy of human existence and is sure its justification is to be found in immortality In the Third with a feeling of reassurance he looks out upon nature runs the rounds of its circles and finishes in the happy awareness that it is lsquoalmighty love that forms all things and preserves all thingsrsquo In the Fourth he assures himself and us of a sheltered security in the sublime and serene dream of a heavenly liferdquo

Mahlerrsquos Fourth Symphony the most modest in length and orchestral requirements of his ten had its roots as far back as 1892 when the composer was 32 These were the years extending through the composition of the Fourth Symphony during which Mahler was imbibing the folk traditions of Germany as they were set down in an early-19th-century anthology of poems titled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ldquoThe Youthrsquos Magic Hornrdquo) Edward Downes program annotator of the New York Philharmonic from 1960 to 1974 noted a deep-seated personal need in Mahlerrsquos interest in these simple peasant verses ldquoLike most German Romantic artists Mahler felt a love for folk art amounting almost to worship In part this may have been the nostalgia of the complex intellectual city-dweller for an Eden of lost innocence of freshness of naiumlveteacuterdquo This vein of innocence of child-like simplicity is at the heart of this lovely Fourth Symphony In 1892 Mahler set to music one of the Wunderhorn poems Der Himmel haumlngt voll Geigen (ldquoHeaven is chock full of violinsrdquo) He completed the song which he named after its first line Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden (ldquoWe revel in heavenly pleasuresrdquo) in February 1892 and made an orchestral arrangement of it the following month When he set to work on his Third Symphony in 1895 he intended to include this song as the last of its movements The vast musical panorama of the Third Symphony perhaps the best example of ldquothe world in a symphonyrdquo was conceived to address individual movements to such matters as ldquoWhat the flowers tell merdquo ldquoWhat the forest creatures tell merdquo and so forth for ldquothe nightrdquo ldquothe angelsrdquo and ldquoloverdquo The finale was to have included Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden to elucidate ldquoWhat the Child tells merdquo Mahler however decided to drop this

song from the Third Symphony probably because it would have been an anti-climax after the stentorian ending of the preceding movement Instead Mahler determined to explore the world of this ldquochild of heavenrdquo more extensively in a separate work Thus was the Fourth Symphony born

It is important to understanding the Fourth Symphony to realize that its entire mood and structure are built to lead to the finale mdash the first three movements serve to prepare for and illuminate the closing vision The composer is reported to have said ldquoIn the first three movements there reigns the serenity of a higher realm a realm strange to us oddly frightening even terrifying In the finale the child which in its previous existence belonged to this higher realm tells us what it all meanshelliprdquo The child-like simplicity and open-faced sincerity of the last movement supply not only the general emotional framework of the Symphony but also influence some of its musical materials The development section of the first movement for example contains a chirruping theme for four unison flutes derived from the concluding song It is not the normal course of creation for a work to proceed forward from its ending In this instance however this is what happened and the first three movements need to be viewed as the various steps through which the listener is prepared to understand the full implications of the finale (Incidentally Wagner followed a similar ldquoworking-backwardsrdquo procedure in the conception of his Ring operas)

Again it is informative to turn to Bruno Walter to gain insight into the progression of the Fourth Symphony ldquoIn the fairy tale of the Fourth Symphony everything is floating and unburdened rather than mighty or pathetic the mellow voice of an angel confirms what in the Second and Third Symphonies a prophet had foreseen and proclaimed in loud accentshellip The first movement is dominated by a droll humor which is in strange contrast to the beatific mood forming the keynote of the work The scherzo is a kind of uncanny supernatural episode Its demonic violin solo and its graceful trio forms an interesting contrast to the other sections of the symphony without abandoning their tone of lightness and mystery Mahler told me that the profound quiet of the slow movement was caused by a vision of a church sepulcher showing the recumbent image of the deceased with arms crossed in eternal sleep The poem set to music in the last movement depicts in words the general atmosphere from which the Symphony as a whole arises The child-like delights which it portrays are symbolic of heavenly bliss and only when

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Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

at the very end music is proclaimed the sublimest of joys is its humorous character changed to one of exalted solemnityrdquo

The composer as well left a fascinating description of the finale ldquoWhat I envisioned for the last movement was very difficultrdquo said Mahler ldquoTry if you will to imagine a heaven of undifferentiated blue which is much harder to suggest than changing contrasting hues This is the fundamental mood But it darkens sometimes grows spooky even terrifying It is not that heaven itself really dims on the contrary it shines on and on in its eternal blue It is only that we sometimes react to it with sudden terror just as on the most beautiful day when the woods are drenched in sunlight one is often gripped by a panic fearrdquo This quotation says as much about Mahler the man as about his composition but it does give an important point of approach for appreciating this beautiful work

The Symphony opens in G major with the distinctive sound of sleigh bells that recurs at important structural points throughout the movement A number of melodic ideas are tossed out to comprise the main theme group before the music moves properly enough to D major for the second theme a sweet Viennese melody high in the cellos The sleigh bells mark the beginning of a lengthy development section that thoroughly explores much of the material heard thus far with a particular emphasis on the clear pipings of the augmented woodwind choir After one of the few large climaxes of the Symphony the development quiets before it comes to an abrupt stop The music takes a quick breath and the recapitulation begins in the sunny mood of the opening The exposition themes are again assayed to bring the movement to an invigorating close

Mahlerrsquos original designation for the second-movement scherzo was Freund Hein spielt auf (ldquoFriend Hein playsrdquo) ldquoHeinrdquo was the character of German legend who used his fiddle to lure reluctant travelers to the Great Beyond This eerie movement perhaps inspired by the not dissimilar visions of Liszt Saint-Saeumlns and Berlioz alternates a diabolical scherzo with brighter trios Much of the mood comes from the solo violinist who is instructed to tune a second instrument a full step higher than normal to produce a more strident tone quality Of this movement Mahler wrote ldquoThe scherzo is so uncanny almost sinister that your hair may stand on end Yet in the following Adagio where all complications are dissolved you will feel that it was not really all that sinisterhelliprdquo Rather like a bad dream followed by a reassuring sunrise

The serene third movement is in the form of a variation on two themes though it follows the formal outlines of each theme only tenuously The first is one of those superb otherworldly visions (another occurs in the Fifth Symphony) which owes much of its atmosphere to the transcendent Adagios of Anton Bruckner This first set of variations dominated by the string choir founded upon a resonant pizzicato bass line alternates with the second set of variations given largely to the winds (The oboe introduces the second theme) Enumerating the details of this rather complex structure is beyond the scope of these notes but it can be observed that the alternations of variations-chains is usually matched by a switch from predominantly string sonority (note the pizzicato bass line) to wind timbre After a surprisingly explosive climax the third movement comes to a subdued close (Mahlerrsquos use of the harp here is a particular joy) which connects it with only pause for a child-sized breath to the finale

The vision of the Fourth Symphonyrsquos closing movement (Sehr behaglich mdash ldquoVery leisurelyrdquo) is couched in the simplest of musical forms mdash the strophic song Each verse of the text filled with images of an idealized Medieval peasant life ends with a chorale-like refrain borrowed from the music of the alto solo in the Third Symphony The stanzas are marked by recalling the sound of sleigh bells and the accompanying music from the first movement (which the eminent English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey dubbed rather ingloriously ldquofarm-yard noisesrdquo) For the concluding stanza Mahler executed a harmonic sleight-of-hand as the music moves from its G major base to the ethereal key of E major More than just a technical device this gesture gives a special meaning to the closing text sung by the heaven-blessed child ldquoTherersquos no music at all on earth Which can ever compare with oursrdquo Its beauty calm and simplicity are among the most pacific moments in all of music

Max Kalbeck the distinguished critic wrote following the Viennese premiere in January 1902 ldquoWhat touches us most in Mahlerrsquos Symphony is the feeling which emanates from the work The longing for simplicity mdash lsquoUnless you become like children you will not enter Godrsquos realmrsquo Mahlerrsquos G major Symphony is a work for children and those who would become like childrenrdquo

copy2014 Dr Richard E Rodda

3 8

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

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In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

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THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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Notes on the Program

Das Himmlische leben (ldquoThe Heavenly liferdquo)

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden We revel in heavenly pleasuresDrsquorum tun wir das Irdische meiden Leaving all that is earthly behind usKein weltlichrsquo Getuumlmmel No worldly turmoilHoumlrt man nicht im Himmel Is heard in heavenLebt alles in sanftester Ruhrsquo We all live in sweetest peace

Wir fuumlhren ein englisches Leben We lead an angelic existenceSind dennoch ganz lustig daneben And so we are perfectly happyWir tanzen und springen We dance and leapWir huumlpfen und singen And skip and singSankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu Saint Peter in Heaven looks on

Johannes das Laumlmmlein auslasset Saint John has lost his lambkinDer Metzger Herodes drauf passet And butcher Herod is lurkingWie fuumlhren ein geduldigrsquos We lead a patientUnschuldigrsquos geduldigrsquos Guiltless patientEin liebliches Laumlmmlein zu Tod Darling lambkin to death

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen taumlt schlachten Saint Luke is slaying the oxenOhnrsquo einigrsquos Bedenken und Achten Without the least hesitationDer Wein kostrsquot kein Heller Wine costs not a farthingIm himmlischen Keller In the Heavenly tavernDie Englein die backen das Brot The angels bake the bread

Gutrsquo Kraumluter von allerhand Arten Fine sprouts of every descriptionDie wachsen im himmlischen Garten Are growing in Heavenrsquos gardenGutrsquo Spargel Fisolen Fine asparagus fine herbsUnd was wir nur wollen And all we desireGanze Schuumlsseln voll sind uns bereit Huge platefuls for us are prepared

Gutrsquo Aumlpfel gutrsquo Birnrsquo und gut Trauben Fine apples fine pears and fine grapesDie Gaumlrtner die alles erlauben The gardeners let us pick freelyWillst Rehbock willst Hasen You want venison hareAuf offener Strassen In the open streetsSie laufen herbei They go running around

Solltrsquo ein Festtag etwa kommen And when therersquos a holiday nearAlle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen All the fishes come joyfully swimmingDort laumluft schon Sankt Peter And off runs Saint PeterMit Netz und mit Koumlder With net and with baitZum himmlischen Weiher hinein Towards the celestial pondSankt Martha die Koumlchin muss sein Saint Martha must be the cook

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden Therersquos no music at all on earthDie unsrsquorer verglichen kann werden Which can ever compare with oursElftausend Jungfrauen Eleven thousand virginsZu tanzen sich trauen Are set dancingSankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht Saint Ursula herself laughs to see itCaumlcilia mit ihren Verwandten Saint Cecilia with her companionsSind treffliche Hofmusikanten Are splendid court musiciansDie englischen Stimmen The angelic voicesErmuntern die Sinnen Delight the sensesDass Alles fuumlr Freuden erwacht For all things awake to joy

3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

4 3

JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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3 9

In 2014-15 JamilyN maNNiNg- White siNgs ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos

Dreamrdquo with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra also Gilda in Rigoletto with MidAtlantic Opera and is guest soloist with Heartbeat Opera (New York City) for a gala performance of Purcellrsquos The Fairy Queen She also sings Musetta in La bohegraveme with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and is soloist in Carmina Burana (Craig Jessop conducting) with the American Festival Chorus in summer of 2015 Her 2013-14 season included Eurydice in Charpentierrsquos La descente drsquoOrpheacutee aux enfers with New Yorkrsquos Gotham Chamber Opera a return to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mendelssohnrsquos ldquoIncidental Music from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dreamrdquo soloist in My Fair Lady in concert with Yale ldquoMusical Theatre on the Airrdquo series The Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Womenrsquos Project at NYC Center Stage (Off-Broadway) and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera In summer of 2014 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and Violetta in A Loverrsquos Tale (an adaptationcompilation from Verdi Charles Ludlam and Dumas fils) with the Berkshire Theatre Group and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberfloumlte and Mlle Goldentrill in The Impresario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre in Martharsquos Vineyard Other recent highlights include featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Flavia Gemmira in Cavallirsquos Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera and soloist in Messiah with the New Haven Symphony

After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy (where he received the Fine Arts Award for Brass) trombonist BRiaN l diehl a Maine

native received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music (becoming the first brass player at NEC to receive the Rabb Presidential Scholarship as well as the Theodore Presser Award) Mr Diehl was a Fellow at

the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons and worked under Leonard Bernstein Seiji Ozawa Simon Rattle Jeffrey Tate and Marek Janowski He also was selected to a three-year Fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas with whom he toured and recorded extensively

Mr Diehl is Principal Trombonist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and he also holds the Principal Trombone position in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Albany Symphony Boston Modern Orchestral Project Florida West Coast Symphony Boston Symphony Boston Pops Boston Pops Esplanade The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a recording in 1989 of the music of Verdirsquos Opera Highlights with Sir Georg Solti

Mr Diehl is an avid soloist and proponent of the trombone He has commissioned and arranged several works for the trombone most recently from composer Sanae Kanda A Folk Tune Other past commissions include Anthony DiLorenzorsquos concerto Little Buckaroo and Lauren Bernofskyrsquos solo Devilrsquos Dermish Another of Mr Diehlrsquos passions is performing in Chamber Music settings from Brass Quintets to performing as a soloist within an unlike ensemble such as

Roger Goebrsquos Quartet for String Quartet and Trombone at Musicorda String Festival He is a member of Epic Brass and Innovata Brass

Mr Diehl maintains a rigorous teaching schedule in addition to his many performance activities He is Low Brass Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at New England Conservatoryrsquos Preparatory Division and serves as Artist Faculty at University of Southern Maine in Gorham Additionally he teaches numerous high school-aged musicians in his private studio His teachers have included Mr Frank Crisafulli Mr Jay Friedman Mr Joseph Alessi Mr John Swallow Mr Norman Bolter and Mr Douglas Yeo

Brianrsquos website is wwwbriandiehlnet

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

JAMIlYN MANNINg-WHITE soprano

BRIAN DIEHl trombone

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 2

L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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World Class Training Preschool through Professional

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 8

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY Disney Classics Overture

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by A MENKEN R MERKIN T PASATIERI amp T RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Colors of the Wind Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Arranged by DANNY TROOB

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACarolyn Kuan Music Director

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies

The 2014-2015 Season is sponsored by

Saturday June 6 2015 | 730 pmMortensen Hall The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

DISNEY IN CONCERT Magical Music from the Movies is produced by Symphony Pops Music

Sherilyn Draper Director and Writer Ted Ricketts Musical Director

-continued-

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach FoundationCameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phonesThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council

the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives

support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

LAURA JACKSON conductor KYLE EBERLIN guest vocalist

JULIANA HANSEN guest vocalistANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

WHITNEY CLAIRE KAUFMAN guest vocalist

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 1

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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Auditioning for Summer

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Watch for our Nutcracker at The Bushnell Dec 12 amp 13 2015

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN I Wanrsquona Be Like You amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by FRANCK VAN DER HEIJDEN

Words and Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Medley From Disneyrsquos Mary Poppins amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by BRUCE HEALEY amp KEN WHITCOMB

-INTERMISSION-

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite Arranged by MICHAEL STAROBIN Edited by TED RICKETTS

Music by ALAN MENKEN Disneyrsquos Aladdin Orchestral Suite Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN amp TIM RICE Arranged by DANNY TROOB amp BRUCE HEALEY

Music by KLAUS BADELT Pirates of the Caribbean Suite Arranged by TED RICKETTS

Music by ELTON JOHN Disneyrsquos The Lion King Orchestral Song Suite Lyrics by TIM RICE Score by HANS ZIMMER Arranged by BRAD KELLEY amp TED RICKETTS

Music by RICHARD M SHERMAN Itrsquos a Small World amp ROBERT B SHERMAN Arranged by KEN WHITCOMB

Presentation licensed by Disney Concert Library copy Disney

-continued-

Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performanceAs a courtesy to the performers and other audience members please turn off watch alarms and cell phones

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development Connecticut Office

of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts a federal agency

The 2014-2015 Pops Series is presented by

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

POPS Series

4 2

L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

4 3

JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

SCHOOLSCHOOLTORRINGTON

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World Class Training Preschool through Professional

The Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory 58 Main Street Torrington CT 06790 | 8604824413

wwwnutmegconservatoryorgEstablished 1969 NASD accredited

Auditioning for Summer

Programs Now

The Dance Shop at The Nutmeg

One Shop for all your Dancewear needs

Watch for our Nutcracker at The Bushnell Dec 12 amp 13 2015

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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L aURa JacksoNmdashin her sixth season as music director of the Reno Philharmonicmdash

continues to win praise for her artistry leadership innovative programming and passionate community engagement With the help of first-rate musicians choir staff board members and community supporters Laura captivates audiences and brings local and national recognition for Renorsquos premier orchestra

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic Ms Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally In May 2013 she became the first-ever American to lead the Algerian National Orchestra other recent engagements include LrsquoOrchestre de Bretagne in France and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra In addition she recorded Michael Daughertyrsquos Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop In North America she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama Atlanta Baltimore Berkeley Detroit Phoenix San Antonio Toledo Toronto Windsor and Winnipeg among others

Ms Jackson served as the Assistant ConductorAmerican Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano from 2004 to 2007 Prior to her appointment in Atlanta Ms Jackson studied conducting at the University of Michigan with Kenneth Kiesler and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestrarsquos Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003 As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire

Ms Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh NY where she grew up waterskiing swimming and sailing on Lake Champlain She fell in love with the violin in public school later transferring to the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school Ms Jackson pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

K yle eBeRleiN is thrilled to be part of this amazing cast and project His stage

credits include the National Tour of Dr Seussrsquo How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical Regional Theater credits include Into The Woods (Rapunzelrsquos Prince) Les Miserables (Feuilly and Valjean understudy) The Music Man (Ewart Dunlop) Henry IV Part 1 (Gadshill) Hamlet and Measure for Measure at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival New York Theatre includes The Underclassman with

Prospect Theatre Company and The Time of Your Life with Attic Theatre Company Recordings include Murphyrsquos Law The Road Trip Musical Comedy Kyle is extremely excited to return to Disney material He spent 9 months sailing the Caribbean on the Disney Dream Cruise Ship along with his good friends Scar Jafar Merlin Shang and Prince Phillip Kyle holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

lAuRA JACKSON conductor

KYlE EBERlIN guest vocalist

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 0

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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JUliaNa haNseN is thrilled to be performing her favorite Disney songs with such

wonderful orchestras She has originated roles in Off-Broadway shows performed as Millie in the 1st National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and starred in several productions across the country Her favorite credits include Les Miserables (Eponine) Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy) Juliana was a finalist on NBCrsquos TV show ldquoGreasendash Yoursquore The One That I Wantrdquo on which she worked with Tony-Award winning director Kathleen Marshall Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composer Georgia Stitt and performed for Olivia Newton-John One of her career highlights to date was having the honor to premiere ldquoHappy Working Songrdquo from Disneyrsquos Enchanted for the incomparable Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz in 2009-prior to the filmrsquos release Juliana frequently works with the legendary two-time Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman and recently was the new voice of Mary Poppins for Walt Disneyrsquos Mary Poppinsndash the Legacy Collection Juliana can also be heard as the new voice of Cinderella on Walt Disney Recordsrsquo Cinderellandash The Lost Chords and Fynsworth Alleyrsquos Sondheim A Stephen Sondheim Album She received the Los Angeles Music Centerrsquos Spotlight Award for Best Vocalist and a ldquoDrama-Logue Best Actressrdquo award for The Secret Garden Juliana has her Masters in Acting from The Guildford School of Acting in England and lives in LA where

she pursues Film and Television Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid Thanks to Ted Ricketts and love to her family

A NdReW JohNsoN 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 United States Europe and Asia as a lead vocalist and dancer and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television You can currently catch him as a background vocalist and dancer on FOXrsquos The X Factor He most recently performed on The Conan OrsquoBrien Show in the comedy spoof Broadway Rap Musicals Jay-Z Snoop Dogg amp Vanilla Ice and performed with Florence and the Machine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards His other theatrical credits include Rent (Benny) Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph Asher) Godspell (Jesus) and Pippin (Lead Player) Andrew has shared the stage with singersactresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with

recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singeractress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid) He just recently released his new EP on ITunes entitled Elevation under his artist name Drew Michael He would like to thank his family for their unconditional love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

ANDREW JOHNSON guest vocalist

JulIANA HANSEN guest vocalist

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

SCHOOLSCHOOLTORRINGTON

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World Class Training Preschool through Professional

The Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory 58 Main Street Torrington CT 06790 | 8604824413

wwwnutmegconservatoryorgEstablished 1969 NASD accredited

Auditioning for Summer

Programs Now

The Dance Shop at The Nutmeg

One Shop for all your Dancewear needs

Watch for our Nutcracker at The Bushnell Dec 12 amp 13 2015

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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HRT6

W hitNey 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 garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe Whitney has performed as Guest Soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Guest Soloist with the Florida Orchestra and has appeared in Cabaret (Sally Bowles) A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream (Peaseblossom) Marisol (June) The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemblesrsquo 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 voiceover performer in film 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 Oscarwinning composer Dimitri Tiomkin Whitney graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BFA in Theater Performance

Her favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid with Cinderella as a close second

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

About the Artists

WHITNEY ClAIRE KAuFMAN guest vocalist

SCHOOLSCHOOLTORRINGTON

BALLETof

World Class Training Preschool through Professional

The Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory 58 Main Street Torrington CT 06790 | 8604824413

wwwnutmegconservatoryorgEstablished 1969 NASD accredited

Auditioning for Summer

Programs Now

The Dance Shop at The Nutmeg

One Shop for all your Dancewear needs

Watch for our Nutcracker at The Bushnell Dec 12 amp 13 2015

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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2014 TALCOTT MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVALFestival SponsorsSaint Francis CareRichard P Garmany Fund at

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Concert SponsorsClassic Hotels of ConnecticutHartford HealthCare

Corporate FundBig YUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival PatronsFalcetti MusicPainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish RemovalSeaburyUBS Realty Investors LLC

Festival BenefactorsCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance Company Simscroft-Echo Farms

Girard Brothers CorporationThe Hartford TravelersViking Fuel Oil Company

Festival FriendsBig Y CLampPDornenburg Kallenbach AdvertisingEthel Walker SchoolFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos FoodsJP Morgan ChaseMetro BisMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp ColeSimsbury BankSpotwineTom amp Suzy Reich

Education Tent SponsorRenbrook School

Fireworks SponsorThe Masterrsquos School

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Concert and Project Sponsors

2014-2015 SEASONSeason Sponsor

MASTERWORKS SERIES

Metlife FoundationThe Edward C amp Ann T Roberts

FoundationConcert BenefactorsThe Cly-Del Manufacturing CompanyConcert SponsorsRichard P Garmany Fund at Hartford

Foundation for Public GivingEndowed Memorial ConcertsKoski Memorial ConcertTina Mahar McNally amp

Alexander Campbell McNally Memorial Concert

Pre-Concert Talk SponsorNew England Public RadioCorporate FundThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyMetLife Foundation

PERFORMANCE AT HEARTBEAT PARKCorporate FundThe Hartford

POPS SERIESSeries Sponsor

Corporate FundPrudential FinancialThe Hartford

Concert SponsorsPrudential Retirement

Musical Dialogues Series Sponsor

DISCOVERY SERIES Presenting Sponsor

SUNDAY SERENADESGrant FundHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music Endowment

NORDSTROM QUARTETIndividual Concert SponsorHarvey Kelly

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra extends its

appreciation and special thanks to the following donors for their support of concerts and special

projects during the 2014-2015 season and the

2014 Talcott Mountain Music Festival

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Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

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THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

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Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

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4 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Corporate and Foundation Donors

FOUNDATIONS GOVERNMENT amp OTHER SUPPORT$100000 and AboveGreater Hartford Arts CouncilHartford Foundation for

Public Giving

$25000-$99999Department of Economic amp

Community DevelopmentThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foundation

$10000-$24999SBM Charitable FoundationWilliam and Alice Mortensen

FoundationThe Ensworth Charitable

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCompass Youth Collaborative IncThe Barnes Foundation

$1000-$9999Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationMr amp Mrs William Foulds

Family FoundationAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchHelen M Saunders Foundation

Music EndowmentThe Burton and Phyllis Hoffman

FoundationFisher Foundation IncThe Harry E Goldfarb

Family FoundationWells Fargo FoundationClassics for Kids Foundation IncThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation Inc

Joseph S Stackpole Charitable Trust

iQuilt Partnership IncThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe George A amp Grace L Long

FoundationNewAlliance Foundation IncElizabeth Carse FoundationPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings Foundation

$250-$999John amp Kelly Hartman

FoundationThe Benevity Community

Impact Fund

BUSINESS SUPPORT$50000 and aboveThe HartfordTravelersUnited Technologies Corporation

$25000-$49999Accenture IncLincoln Financial Foundation IncMetLife FoundationSaint Francis CareThe Edgemer Foundation IncWebster Bank

$10000-$24999EversourceHartford HealthCarePainersquos Recycling and

Rubbish Removal IncPrudential FinancialSeabury Retirement CommunityStanley Black amp Decker IncUBS Realty Investors LLCViking Fuel Oil Company Inc

$5000-$9999Berkshire BankBig YCignaEnsign-Bickford Industries IncForethought Life Insurance

CompanyGA Financial CompanyJP Morgan ChaseLegrand North AmericaNordstrom IncRenbrook SchoolTD BankThe CLY-DEL Manufacturing

CompanyUBS Financial Services

$1000-$4999Barnes Group FoundationBemis Associates LLCBNY MellonBradley Foster amp Sargent IncCommunity Health Network

of CT IncDornenburg | Kallenbach

AdvertisingFederman Lally amp Remis LLCFitzgeraldrsquos Food StoresHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHoffman Auto GroupLoomis Chaffee SchoolMotley Rice LLCMurphy Laudati Kiel Buttler amp

Rattigan LLCRobert Hensley amp Associates LLCRobinson amp Cole LLPSimsbury BankThe Ethel Walker SchoolThe Pryor FoundationVirtus Investment PartnersXL Group

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra thanks the institutional donors ndash businesses corporations foundations government agencies and others ndash who contributed to the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

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Community Engagement and Education

Accenture IncAcorn Alcinda Foundation IncDavid ArchillaMr amp Mrs Alfred F AshAsylum Hill Congregational

ChurchBank of AmericaDawn amp Frank BauerElizabeth Schiro amp Stephen

BayerBerkshire BankNancy P BernsteinDr amp Mrs Jack BlechnerWes amp Joann BoydLuke amp Sara BroninKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammerbergJoyce amp Harold BuckinghamMs Inga BuhrmannNatale amp Ellen CalamisMark amp Linda CaplanChristopher amp Carrie CascianiDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkPeter amp Jen ClarkeClassics for Kids Foundation IncMr amp Mrs Brian ClemowAdrienne CochraneJamie amp Isaac CohenNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna A CollinsCommunity Health Network

of CT IncCompass Youth Collaborative IncRon amp Nancy ComptonWilliam amp Ilona CrosswhiteEdward CummingJohn amp Sheila DrsquoAgostinoLaura DambierBarbara O DavidChris amp Clare DowdLinda amp Dennis DuffJill Merriam amp Robert DulitskyRev Hope Eakins amp

Rev William EakinsPatrick amp Christine EganElizabeth Carse FoundationEnterprise Holdings Foundation

Mr amp Mrs Steven L ErieEversourceWoody ExleyWilliam Fairchild amp

Adele KidderDavid R FayFederman Lally amp Remis LLCLiz amp Sean FeeleyStanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishFisher Foundation IncDean and Mrs Aaron FlaggLori amp Jeff FlaksMs Kathy FlemingDr Alexandra Flowers MDDennis amp Trudy FoxNathan Frank amp

Krystian von SpeidelJerry amp Ida FranklinJohn amp Susan FranzisKenneth amp JoAnn FreemanScott amp Florence GalbraithKatherine amp Martin GavinChristopher amp Diane GentMichael amp Karen GingoldJanalynne amp Mark GiusJennifer E GoldsteinJ GottfriedStephanie amp Michael GrecoConnie GreenOz GriebelAngela D GriffinJulie amp Glynn GriggsDr Margaret L GrunnetMaryEllen M amp Pierre H

GuertinCarrie amp Jonathan HammondMort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta HarrisHartford Foundation for

Public GivingHartford HealthCareHartford Steam Boiler Inspection

and Insurance CompanyHarvard Alumni GroupMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane Heath

Jerry amp Barbara HessBradley amp Kathy HoffmanJeffrey S amp Nancy P HoffmanChloe amp Wesley HortonChloe amp Wesley HortonAnn amp Joseph HowardSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie JasinskiBrook amp Charlotte JasonMartha amp Michael JohnsonMr Robert JonesJoseph S Stackpole

Charitable TrustBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinAnne amp George KanDinesh amp Rosy KapurLouise KaufmanMartin amp Jennifer KearnsMs Linda J KellySylvia amp Harvey KellyJohn amp Sharon KellyDavid amp Ilene KohlunBernard amp Gale KostoKPMG LLPMaestra Carolyn KuanAjay amp Fran KumarMargaret amp Roger LawsonLegrand North AmericaCourtland amp Barbara LewisLincoln Financial Foundation IncIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowBonnie amp Edward MalleyDannel amp Catherine MalloyMerrill amp Mark MandellBill Manning amp

Kyran QuackenbushBarri MarksTom amp Donna MayShannon amp David McHaleRobert amp Patricia McLaughlinNancy Meyer amp Melissa MacriWolfried amp Anita MielertMs Wendy MillerB Charles amp Toby MilnerPeg Morton

For more information on how you can help support music education in your community please contact Ruth Sovronsky Director of Development at 8607607321HSO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED GENEROUSLY BY

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

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THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

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SO COULDJUST ONE

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Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

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Community Engagement and Education

Contributors as of March 18 2015

Robert amp Marnie MuellerNational Endowment for the ArtsNewAlliance Foundation IncNordstrom IncHarry amp Joan NormanCarolyn amp James NorrisKC amp Robert OrsquoBrienAndrea B OddiBrenda amp Christopher OpieMrs John C OwenApril M PaternoAgnes amp Bill PeelleDavid and Mardelle PentildeaMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsMariella G PernaPfizerKristen Phillips amp Matt SchreckPhoenix Life Insurance CompanyBill PierzPrice Chopperrsquos Golub

FoundationPrudential RetirementMrs Millard H Pryor Jr

Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

Pullman amp Comley Attorneys at Law

Gary amp Diane RansomElizabeth B RayLucia amp James ReesTom amp Suzy ReichJames S amp Nancy Taggart

Remis

Renbrook SchoolMarc amp Hilary RespassGary RhuleMrs Irving S RibicoffMichael amp Ellen RizzoDante amp Katy RoccaseccaJune Miller RosenblattLynn B RossiniDavid amp Linda RothDr Mary Beth Janicki amp

Mr Neil RothfarbSusan amp Joel RottnerDr James C RoumanSaint Francis CarePatricia amp Andrew SalnerMary T SargentSBM Charitable FoundationSeabury Retirement CommunityMr amp Mrs Edwin S ShirleyEmma SimonKaren amp Howard SproutStanley Black amp Decker IncMargery amp Lewis SteinbergMr amp Mrs John E SundeTD BankThe Auerbach Schiro FoundationThe Barnes FoundationThe Charles Nelson Robinson

FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation IncThe Edgemer Foundation IncThe Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb

Memorial Charitable Trust

The Ensworth Charitable Foundation

The George A amp Grace L Long Foundation

The HartfordThe Musical Club of HartfordDouglas amp Diane ThomasJim amp Nancy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerTravelersJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationKelly amp Suzy TremaineDarko Tresnjak amp Joshua PearsonUBS Financial ServicesUnited Technologies CorporationAlex amp Patricia VanceSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJeff and Pam VerneyVirtus Investment PartnersMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr amp Mrs David WareKatherine M WarrenWebster BankWells Fargo FoundationStephen amp Sharon WhiteBill amp Bonnie WittmanXL GroupBernard J ZahrenAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

4 9

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The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Francis Goodwin Circle($25000 and above)The Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Koopman share)

Mrs Millard H Pryor Jr Ms Esther A Pryor amp The Pryor Foundation

The Edgemer FoundationThe Katharine K McLane

and Henry R McLane Charitable Trust

Merrill amp Mark MandellTom amp Suzy ReichDavid amp Linda Roth

Presidentrsquos Circle($10000ndash$24999)Barbara O DavidCarol amp Jackson EnoBob amp Frankie GoldfarbNancy amp Robinson

GroverMaryEllen M amp

Pierre H GuertinMr Karl J Krapek

Mr amp Mrs Christopher Larsen

Mr Matthew H Lynch amp Ms Susan M Banks

Mr Charles B MillikenJames S amp Nancy

Taggart RemisKelly amp Joseph RomanoMary T SargentElizabeth Schiro amp

Stephen BayerJ Frank Travis amp

The Travis FoundationAlex amp Patricia VanceMr amp Mrs Robert J

von DohlenMr Jan Winkler amp

Ms Hermine Drezner amp the DreznerWinkler Fund at the Hartford Foundation

The Zachs Family

Platinum Circle($7500ndash$9999)The William H amp

Rosanna T Andrulat Charitable Foundation

John amp Susan BeersThe Alexander M amp

Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

Jerry amp Barbara HessBrook amp Charlotte JasonJeff and Pam Verney

Gold Circle($5000ndash$7499)Wes amp Joann BoydColeman H amp Jo

Champlin CaseyThe Rhoda and

David Chase Family Foundation Inc

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc

Donna amp Geraud DarnisJohn amp Susan FranzisThe Beatrice Fox

Auerbach Foundation at HFPG Recommended by Linda amp David Glickstein

Carrie amp Jonathan Hammond

In honor of our distinguished past and present Maestras The Maestrarsquos Society recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent the major portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors These donors are truly the leaders of the Annual Fund and we thank them for their remarkable generosity

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

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The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 0

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Maestras Society

Mort amp Irma HandelLawrence amp Roberta

HarrisSteve amp Ellen HarrisChloe amp Wesley HortonSylvia amp Harvey KellyRebecca amp James LoreeAgnes amp Bill PeelleMichael amp Genevieve

PfaffMrs Stephen J RaffayGary amp Diane RansomDr amp Mrs Allan ReiskinElizabeth S RussellPatricia amp Andrew SalnerAnonymous

Maestrarsquos Society($2500ndash$4999)Mill River FoundationBruce Barth amp Pamela

Yeomans BarthSusan BlockKenneth amp Judith

BoudreauAnona BroadmanDr amp Mrs Bernie ClarkRon amp Nancy ComptonCarol amp Tim CovelloWilliam amp Ilona

CrosswhiteDr Michael E CuckaRuth Ann amp Joel DavisDr amp Mrs Arthur C

DeGraff Jr

Rev Hope Eakins amp Rev William Eakins

Stanley amp Susan FellmanMr Lawrence R FishSusan amp Robert FisherMuriel amp Karl

FleischmannAnita amp Tony FerranteRosemary A GaidosMr amp Mrs Bob

Garthwait JrRuth Ann Woodley amp

Peter GourleyMark amp Marianne HayesRichard amp Christiane

HeathSusan amp Bob IzardKen amp Ruth JacobsonMathew amp Valerie

JasinskiAnne amp George KanMrs Bernhard L

Kohn SrBernard amp Gale KostoIrene LorettoHenry amp Wei LowMr John Nealon amp

Ms Pamela LucasArthur R MasiJanet U MurphyMrs John C OwenRobert amp Margaret

Patricelli Family Foundation

Paul amp Linda PendergastAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Dr Mary Beth Janicki amp Mr Neil Rothfarb

The Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation Inc

Philip G SamponaroJ SchermerhornMr amp Mrs James B

Slimmon JrKaren amp Howard SproutJ amp K Thomas

FoundationDr amp Mrs Dean F

UphoffSharon L Vasquez amp

David J ParkmanJane amp Frank

von HolzhausenStacy R Nerenstone

MD amp Mr Morton Weinstein

Gary amp Diane WhitneyThomas amp Patricia

WildmanLiz amp Tom WoolfGail amp Michael YaffeJessica amp Eric ZachsBernard J ZahrenMr amp Mrs Ronald W

ZdrojeskiAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

5 3

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

5 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 1

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

The Concertmasterrsquos Club

The Concertmasterrsquos Club recognizes current leadership gifts to the Annual Fund These gifts given between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015 represent a significant portion of the HSOrsquos total income from individual contributors Members of the Concertmasterrsquos Club are able to attend open rehearsals and receptions and receive exclusive email updates with information before it is released to the general public We thank them for their generosity and support

Concertmasterrsquos Club ($1000ndash$2499)Michael Allen amp

Jane WootenNormand F AllenCheryl amp Carl AndersonPeter L AndersonJ Kemler AppellJane amp Daniel ArnoldSam amp Janet BaileyMaxwell amp Sally BeldingNancy P BernsteinJim amp Joan BettsDr Sybille BrewerJoyce amp Harold

BuckinghamEleanor N CaplanKaren Saunders amp

David CassJared ChaseFrancine amp Stephan

ChristiansenDr Diane B amp Sanford

Cloud Jr EsqStephen amp Frances CobbRobert H Connell amp

Michelle DuffyMary H CraryRonald amp Linda DischingerMrs John E EllsworthDavid FayDan amp Joni FineEve amp Edward FishmanPaul amp Mary FoxAlan amp Margreet FrancisSally Williams amp

William Fuller

Dr amp Mrs Prabhash C Ganguli

Aaron amp Sandy GerstenPeter amp Connie GilliesDr Sid amp Joy GlassmanDr Marbelia GonzalezAngela D GriffinGerda amp Marshall GrossackPeter Grzybala amp

Diane KorntheuerBart HalloranNeale amp Carol HaussAlyce amp David HildHerbert amp Ilana HirschDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma HorvitzBonny amp Dwight JohnsonMr Robert JonesMs Karen A KelleherJohn amp Sharon KellyBarbara amp Paul KieferDr Jeffrey amp Virginia KlugerSimon amp Doris KonoverLisa Kugelman MD amp

Roy WisemanFrederick amp Janet

LeonbergerElaine Title LowengardAnita amp William MancollMrs Leta MarksBarri MarksRobert amp Clare McKeagneyJoshua MonteiroBob amp Ami MontstreamKatherine amp John MorganLois Muraro and

Carl Elsishans

Mr and Mrs Bob MurrayGiuliana Musilli amp

Scott SchooleyMr and Mrs Arthur M

NassauArlene amp Daniel NeiditzPaul amp Arlene NormanSara Cree NorrisDiane L NorthropApril M PaternoMr amp Mrs Raymond J

PayneKristen Phillips amp

Matt SchreckAlvin B ReinerMr amp Mrs John H RiegeDouglas H RobinsJohn amp Laura RocheDr James C RoumanHon Howard Scheinblum

amp Ms Susan R FierbergJeanne amp Erling SchmidtPeggy amp Ruben ShapiroHenry ldquoSkiprdquo SteinerBill amp Judy ThompsonMerle amp David TragerEdith amp Jim TresnerMartin amp Karen WandGreg amp Kay WerkElizabeth WhiteHelen amp Alfred G WilkeHeide amp Jeffrey WilliamsMike amp Deborah

ZimmermanKate Steinway amp Paul ZolanAnonymous

10+ years of consecutive giving 20+ years of consecutive giving

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

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H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

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RICHARD P GARMANY

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Encore Society

Mr Sheldon AgdensIvan BackerSusan BlockG P BodozianColeman H amp

Jo Champlin CaseyJoseph Cohn

Ruth Ann amp Joel DavisMuriel FleischmannIrma amp Mort HandelJerry amp Barbara HessMr and Mrs Christopher

LarsenEllis amp Marjorie Levenson

Charles B MillikenCarole OlefskyDavid amp Christa PannorfiAndrew Ricci Jr MD

amp Ms Jacqueline Ann Muschiano

Planned gifts are the resources that help preserve and ensure the successful future for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra We acknowledge our friends who make a planned gift to

us through our Encore Society We thank the following Encore Society Members

Contributors as of March 18 2015

legrand QP

The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

is proud to support the

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Proud to support our community

Celebrating 75 years of Excellence 1939-2014

Manufacturer of Drawn Stamped Metal Components

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H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

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2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

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Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 3

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Principalrsquos Club($500ndash$999)Edward D AbdelnourSusan R AdlerGaetano Albani amp

Jayne Dean AlbaniMr amp Mrs Bryant AndrewsDuffield Ashmead IV MD amp

Eric D OrtJulie A BernardEric amp Lisa BesmanMrs Arthur BlumbergNicholas and Wendy BowenAnne amp Kenneth Brock Fund

of the Cape Cod FoundationMrs Miriam B ButterworthMr amp Mrs Peter G CareyAlfred amp Karen CasellaMr amp Mrs R K ChasePatricia J Checko amp

Edward CaffreyBlair ChildsNaomi amp Michael CohenMr amp Mrs Robert CollinsMary J ConverseElizabeth H CooperHenry amp Ramona CosentinoMr amp Mrs Timothy CurryKate amp Jon DixonAnthony Drapelick amp Pat EstillMrs Nathan DubinDonna amp Kevin EdwardsWilliam amp Elaine EllisGilda S Brock amp Robert M

FechtorMike amp Kathy FoleyMr amp Mrs J G FromerMr L Sidney GarvaisJoan amp David GeetterMr and Mrs John GilliganDonald C amp Carolyn D GrayDiane amp Larry GreenfieldOz GriebelJeffrey B amp Janna S GrossMr amp Mrs Martin D GuyerAndrew R Hahn amp

Cathy J HitchcockMs Laura R Harris

Merle amp David HarrisMr amp Mrs Joseph HewesMarcia D amp Samuel T

HinckleyJames amp Mary HourdequinMelissa Jane InrigMr amp Mrs S Edward JeterMr amp Dr Richard JohnstonDavid amp Carol JordanJoseloff-Kaufman FamilySusan KaehrleKevin amp Cathy KeatingLinda L KennedyMark amp Janet KeoughMrs Walter O R KorderJohn KosterCarol amp Yves KrausWalter amp Elizabeth KressAlice KugelmanFrank M KuligMs Helen LewtanPeter amp Mary Fran LibassiMs Ivy R Marsh amp

Dr Frank StollTom Martin amp Susan SpiggleChristine MartynSteven amp Pamela MaynardEdward amp Nancy McEwanJohn amp Joyce McNabneyLibbie amp George MerrowCharles J Meyer JrNick amp Gisele MillerThe Reverends Barry amp

Nancy MillerJohn amp Moraith OrsquoTooleBill amp Barbara PattisonMr and Mrs Brewster PerkinsDr Daniel E PetashnickMr amp Mrs George PeterssonJudith PinneyBruce amp Marlene PowellPeter ProwdaDr Wayne Rawlins amp

Janet FlaggThe Edward C and Ann T

Roberts FoundationBuck Rogers amp Jack KellyMax and Ginny Scheller

Lynn amp Ralph SchunkCeleste amp John SenechalMs Susan SeveroRuth ShulanskyMr Jonathan SillsStuart amp Arline Small Sadaka

Foundation IncMarion G SpearAnne amp Gordon StaggThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable TrustJean StebingerKeith amp Catherine StevensonChristopher amp Carol SzulcJohn amp Mary TaylorMrs Beverly ThomasBrad A amp Susan Knapp ThomasElizabeth C ValentineDouglas H amp Priscilla B VietsMark amp Dawn von MayrhauserEdward amp Barbara VoskowskyLyn Walker amp Tyler SmithUsha amp Stephen WadeDr amp Mrs Dudley T WatkinsMr amp Mrs David N WaxmanEleanor J WightRoyden WilkinsonBetsy WoodardDr Harold T Yamase MDEleanor E ZajacAnonymous

Playerrsquos Club($250ndash$499)Mr and Mrs William AckermanChris amp Gay AdamsMr amp Mrs Manuel AguiarElizabeth AllenMs Anne AlvordStacey ArgentMr amp Mrs James W BabcockElizabeth M BarnesJane M BartlettSandra amp Loftus BeckerJoanne E Beers amp

Earl C Cree IIMr amp Mrs David Booth Beers

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUAL DONORSWe thank the following individuals who contributed to the

HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

5 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 4

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Mr amp Mrs Edward H Bengelsdorf

James amp Dana BennettMs Corinne BerglundDr amp Mrs Robert BerlandMr E BerzinsDoris B Johnson amp

Charles BillmyerPhillip amp Ellen BlumbergTimothy C BoardmanMr amp Mrs Bruce BockstaelDr and Mrs Nelson A

Bondhus MDMr Stephen BosworthMaureen amp Jerrod BowmanNancy Boynton amp

Robert LangeJoseph amp Melissa BradyMr John Brancato amp

Mr Thomas RichardsonMichael J BraytonThe Breinan FamilySteve amp Nancy BrightNeil amp Sandi BrooksKay Miller Browne amp

Don HammenbergJohn amp Arlene BuckeyMr James E BullockMr amp Mrs Edward B BunnellMrs Teresa BurgerDr amp Mrs Robert BushMr Joseph R CarlsonDr Richard Celio amp

Dr Anne JellisonPolly U ChampBill ChaseAdriana amp Gerry ChichesterJohn Clark amp Judith StoughtonDon amp Nancy ClarkMr Ledge ClaytonMs Thomasina ClemonsSusan amp Brian ClemowDeborah J CliffordJohn amp Joanne CoghillDonna A CollinsKenneth amp Donna CollitonJoseph CorayAlan amp Marcia CornellThe Cosker FamilyFrank F Coulom JrDavid amp Margaret CrombieCarol Crosset

Paul amp Alice CruikshankDr amp Mrs Burton CuninMr amp Mrs Edwin M Dahill JrMargaret C DaleasDonald amp Carol DavidsonDick amp Carol DavisMr Donald DeitchNancy W DenehyCK DesrochersMr amp Mrs Barry J DicksteinMs Cynthia DiGeronimoJohn amp Carolyn DiVenereDan Dolan amp Mari MuriBetty DomerMr amp Mrs Robert E DonahueThe Classen FamilyRobert amp Gretchen DroeschJoan E DurhamMr Warren DutkiewiczMr amp Mrs David R EdwardsInge-Marie EigstiMr and Mrs Brian EllisDr Geoffrey EmerickEllen ErwayLinda amp John FiskeMr Robert B Fiske IIIMr amp Mrs Lawrence FlemingDr amp Mrs Robert FlescherTom amp Bernadette FoleyJackson W Foley amp

Saranne P MurrayRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-FriedmanHoward amp Sandy FromsonMr amp Mrs Victor F FumiattiLinda R GabianelliJohn amp Irene GaffneyFrancis GagliardiRona amp Barry GelberDr John A GettierOscar Peyser FoundationSarah amp Jim GobesThe Goldbas FamilyJean CadoganPaul and Betty Ann GradyCate amp John Grady-BensonJohn M GraffMr amp Mrs Joseph E GreenArnold amp Beverly GreenbergLillian amp Welles GuilmartinDr amp Mrs Robert S HallMs Carol P Halstead

Gail amp Kenneth HamblettElsie amp Elwyn HarpRobert HarrisLouise HealeyDr amp Mrs Victor HersonRhea Padis HigginsMarcia amp John HincksShepherd M Holcombe JrDenis amp Patricia HorganRobert N Horrocks EdDMr amp Mrs Robert HowardDon amp Joanne HuelsmanJonathan Hufstader amp

Janis FranklinRichard amp Beverly HughesDon amp Helen HughlettAlbert amp Jacqueline IlgOswald amp Martha IngleseStephen amp Jacqueline JacobyBrooks amp Carol Lee JoslinRJ amp Bridget KeadyMr Chris KehoeDavid amp Barbara KelleyLeslie KennardBob amp Candy KillianThe Kimball FamilyMr amp Mrs William KirkwoodRalph amp Lin KlumbJim KnorrLois amp Charles KoteenHannie O KowalNancy A KramerDavid amp Ruth KrugmanTheodore amp Diane LabedzkiAlison amp David LeedsAlicia amp Bruce LevyW Peter LindBruce amp Cheryl LindquistMary amp Dick LoyerMr amp Mrs Donald E LyonsDr amp Mrs V Everett Lyons JrDr William A MacDonnellSandra MacGregorJim amp Beth MalleyDonna Manocchio amp

David LewisGerald amp Janet MarcumBrenda Mathewson amp

Carl StaffordWalter amp Anne MayoMr amp Mrs John McGuireAnnette amp James McNeely

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

5 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 5

H David MegawEdward MeigsMr amp Mrs Richard C MeyerMrs and Mr Lorraine MeyerRichard amp Maria MeyerWolfried amp Anita MielertB Charles amp Toby MilnerDr amp Mrs Benson MonasterskyFrances MoultonRobert amp Marnie MuellerRobert L MullaneyAnthony MyersShih Nam SakMr amp Mrs Howard

NeuschaeferMrs Sarmite F NielsenDon amp Brad NoelRichard NorgaardAnnemarie OrangeKatherine PapathanasisMr amp Mrs David ParmeleeMr Francis T PascualChris amp Melissa PattaciniMr amp Mrs Samuel N PaulRobert Bausmith amp

Jill Peters-GeeArthur O Phinney Jr MDMr amp Mrs David E PolkConstance amp Robert PorterScott amp Beth PowellMs Felicia PrattoJames amp JoAnn PriceMr Mark R PrisloeDougla Pyrke amp Jack FairchildFrank amp Marie QuinnJohn amp Rebecca Rafferty

Mr Edward RaymondJoanne ReevesGeorge amp Carol ReiderBob amp Carol RentzLinda amp Stephen RevisCelia Ann RobertsJoan Rice RobinsonJose amp Aida RodriguezMarshall amp Sandra RulnickIris SalvinMichael amp Susan SamesDoug amp Liz SansomValerie amp Lawrence SantilliJudith amp David SatlofGlenn amp Audrey ScanlanMr Richard ScheuchTerry amp Judy SchmittDr amp Mrs J David SchnatzTerry amp Andrea SchnureMr amp Mrs Jon SchoenhornEarl amp Cynthia SchulzPaul SerenbetzSonia amp Mark ShipmanSara L Bernstein amp

Joseph M ShortallMr John D SillimanStephen M amp Amy Lynn

SilvermanDaniel SiopaMr amp Mrs Nelson A SlyWinthrop amp Anne SmithRobert H amp Sharon W SmithElinor F SmithPatricia B SnyderAndrew amp Feather SpearmanMark D amp Linda L Sperry

Dr Robert SpillaneMr Michael P SteinbergKatharine H SteinwedellMr amp Mrs James C StemmChris amp Beth StrappJonas V Strimaitis EsqJack SummersLinda amp John SwedoTeresa SweeneyKathryn TabachnickSally amp Allan TaylorMr amp Mrs James A ThompsonAlan amp Theresa TracyDougie amp Tom TrumbleMr Stephen UtzMariana P WagonerCynthia amp David WardMr amp Mrs John WasickiElizabeth S WatsonJudith amp Joel WeismanDr Steven Wernick DDSCurtis amp Joyce WeybrightRobert amp Penelope WhalenJon amp Nan WheelerMr amp Mrs Edward B

WhittemoreRichard C amp Carla S WildeCarlisle WildemanMr amp Mrs Eliot WilliamsDavid amp Phyllis WinerRaymond amp Sarah WinterJill amp Jack WoodillaMr John WoolleyWilliam WulftangeDr amp Mrs Fred M H Ziter JrAnonymous

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

2014 -2015 Annual Fund Donors

Plant TreesPlant Trees

5 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 6

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Tributes

IN HONOR OFD Weston BoydSusan R Adler

Carol Burklersquos Four Decades of Service at HSOThe Viola SectionSharon DennisonAnn DrinanJim GustafsonMarty KnieriemArthur MasiKathy PeetPat Daly VanceMichael WheelerBarbara WigginAnd friendsFrank KuligCarole OlefskyStephen B Perry

Coleman Caseyrsquos RetirementMs Kathy Derench

Mrs Carol CrossetMr and Mrs Jeffrey Welch

Burt and Carol Cuninrsquos Special AnniversaryDr amp Mrs Jack Blechner

Happy Birthday to Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Cecelia DeschlerRichard Friedman amp

Heidi Deschler-Friedman

Pierre H GuertinThe Edward C and Ann T Roberts

Foundation

Carrie Hammondrsquos 50th BirthdayJohn amp Kelly Hartman FoundationApril M Paterno

Dr Wei-Kuang Huang Mrs Yaching Huang and their daughter SirenaDavid amp Kim Newell

Brook amp Charlotte JasonCarole Olefsky

Carolyn KuanTom amp Suzy ReichPeggy and Alan Mendelson

Samantha McAllisterMrs Joan Hurwitz

Carole OlefskyTom amp Suzy ReichAttorney amp Mrs Sheldon Schwartz

Belle K RibicoffThe Zachs Family Foundation Inc

David Rothrsquos BirthdayDavid and Francie Horvitz

Family Foundation IncNorma Horvitz

Karen Sproutrsquos BirthdayPeter amp Katharine Hufstader

Masuko UshiodaMichael amp Ruriko Wheeler

Elizabeth WhiteMichael OakleafChristopher White

IN MEMORY OFEdward N amp Mildred P AllenNormand F Allen

Jim AndersenAnn Drinan amp Algis Kaupas

James L BeleySuisman Shapiro Wool Brennan

Gray amp Greenberg PC

Ronald A CampanarioChristopher amp Gioia Zack

James ChrisoulisAnonymous

Christopher ClaytonAnonymous

W Edward FosterDavid amp Martha Yutzey

Edward FosterCarol Henry Bennett

Richard and Joanne GatesSuzanne Gates

Robinson A GroverRuth SovronskyMary SargentMary SteinbergMary H Crary

Judith Rosenblum HaleviMuriel amp Karl FleischmannNancy R Savin and David L Savin

Bruce HallAnonymous

Bruce amp Susie HaydenLynn amp John Wadhams

Rabbi Nathan HershfieldLotte Hershfield amp Family

Louise B HerringThe Family of Louise Herring

Ivor T Hugh and Peter HarveyHeather L SchweigerMs Deborah SzajnbergHelen Ann RawlinsonMs Elvia Strom

Rabbi Nathan Hershfield Lotte Hershfield amp Family

Maxim JanowskyNaomi amp Michael CohenDonna amp Michael MarderMr Joseph Seeley

Attorney amp Mrs Hugh M JoseloffJoseloff-Kaufman Family

Julianna M KuligFrank M Kulig

Margie MacDonnellDr William A MacDonnell

Maybelle McCormickAnna amp Benjamin CosenzaAndrew amp Feather SpearmanWindham Regional Arts CouncilKathryn James-StebbinsWillington Seniors IncMs Dorothy L DaleyDavid amp Carol JordanJ L Sanders JrAlice CassellsAntonio RomanoMary ThatcherMary amp David SnyderM Elinor LowellKristina StetsonGabriel amp Tove Rosado

Joseph PanitchMuriel amp Karl Fleischmann

Jim PetersonMs Leslie E Poulos

Joseph SargentShelagh OrsquoNeill

Robert SatterThe Ruth and Robert Satter

Charitable Trust

Helen SteinbergMerle amp David Harris

Catherine Ameer WadeAndrew amp Feather Spearman

Dr Steven WernickCarole OlefskyChloe amp Wesley HortonMuriel amp Karl FleischmannJudith PinneyDr amp Mrs Allan Reiskin

Louise WilsonJohn D Carpenter

We thank the following individuals who contributed to the HSOrsquos Annual Fund between September 1 2013 ndash March 18 2015

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 7

H A R T F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Patron Information

HSO Ticket Services at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford is open Monday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm Telephone (860) 987-5900 Fax (860) 249-5430 Tickets are also available online at wwwhartfordsymphonyorg

Tickets are available for purchase at an on-site box office in the 60 minutes immediately before each concert

At every location the box office is open until one-half hour after the start of the concert

Subscriber Benefits New subscribers will receive a benefit card with their season tickets Present this card to receive up to 20 off at local restaurants and organizations Some restrictions may apply If you have misplaced your subscriber card please call HSO Ticket Services for a replacement

Parking Secure and well-lighted parking is available in the State of Connecticut parking lots along Capitol Avenue For patrons displaying a valid accessible parking permit there are a number of parking spaces available within the State of Connecticut Public Health Laboratory parking lot Please look for prominently displayed signage Spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis In addition valet parking is available for most evening and weekend performances at a cost of $9 per vehicle The valet parking service is located on Trinity Street Excludes weekday matinees

Accessibility The Bushnell is equipped with ramps restrooms elevators and seating areas that can accommodate patrons with disabilities When ordering your tickets be sure to tell the Box Office of any special requirements Access guides are available at the Customer Relations Desk -Persons who are Hearing-Impaired Infrared (ILS) headsets and neck induction loops are available at the Customer Relations Desk to assist with sound amplification and clarity A driverrsquos license or other form of photo ID must be presented

For Hearing Impaired Patrons Infra-red Listening System (ILS) headsets are available to assist with sound amplification and clarity There is NO charge however a $2 donation is appreciated A driverrsquos license or other form of ID must be presented See any usher for assistance

In Case of an Emergency Exits are indicated by signs located above the theater entrances For your safety please check the location of the exit nearest your seat In the event of an evacuation Bushnell staff and volunteers are available to assist you

Late Arrival and Late Seating Hartford Symphony concerts will start at the time stated on your ticket Lobby doors open one hour prior to the performance time Auditorium seating begins one half hour prior to the performance Out of respect to patrons who are in their seats at the start of each part of the concert patrons arriving after the start of a performance or after the end of an Intermission will be seated at the discretion of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Late arrivals will be permitted to enter the hall at times determined by the conductor Based on the time made available for late seating by the conductor patrons may or may not be able to go to their purchased seats at those times Patrons arriving late may also be offered alternative seating in the rear of the halltheatre or in the available standing room only area as a result of the late seating policy This will be offered as determined by the conductor

End of Performance For your safety and the safety of your fellow patrons please do not leave your seat until the house lights have been turned on Not only is it dark but it is inconsiderate to others including the performers

Performance Cancellation Hartford Symphony Orchestra performances are rarely cancelled and only in the case of severe weather If a performance is cancelled the following radio and television stations will be notified WTIC-AM (1080) WDRC-AM (1360) WFCR-FM (885) WFSB-TV 3 and the stations of Connecticut Public RadioWNPR (905 FM) Performance cancellations will also be listed on the HSO Ticket Services phone line and on the HSO website If there is bad weather and a performance is postponed patrons can use their original tickets for the rescheduled performance or they may exchange into another concert during the same season if they cannot attend on the rescheduled date All exchanges are based on availability

Children At the Hartford Symphony we love kidsmdashthat is why we offer a myriad of education programs and perform so often in area schools Please visit our info table located in the lobby for more information Children may attend any Hartford Symphony concert as long as they have a ticket We regret we cannot allow any babies without a paid ticket and no lap seats

Bushnell or Symphony staff reserve the right to ask parents to take disruptive children out of the concert hall

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 8

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

RICHARD P GARMANY

hartfordeduchamber bull 8002748587

THE ANNUALNUMBER OF

HEART ATTACKSCOULD TAKE YOUR

BREATH AWAY

SO COULDJUST ONE

HEART ATTACK

Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are just two warning signsof a heart attack Call 911 if you experience any warning sign Learn the other signs at americanheartorg or call us at 1-800-AHA-USA1

copy 2002 American Heart Association

5 9

HRT6

5 9

HRT6

HRT6


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