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WEEK 5
9 About the Orchestra Musical Arts Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Music Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Conductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Roster of Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Guest Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Severance Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
The Cleveland Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
21 In the News
Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Orchestra News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Community and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
In Focus: A Look Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
35 Concert — Week 5 Concert Previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Introducing the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
“Wedding” Cantata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Sung Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Sinfonia in B minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Sinfonia in D minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Orchestral Suite No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Conductor: Ton Koopman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Soloist: Teresa Wakim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
48 Future Concerts Concert Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Upcoming Concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
62 Donors and Sponsors Endowed Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Heritage Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Corporate Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Foundation & Government Support . . . . . . . . . 79
Individual Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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NON-RESIDENT TRUSTEES Virginia Nord Barbato (NY) Laurel Blossom (SC) Richard C. Gridley (SC)
George Gund III (CA) Loren W. Hershey (DC) Mrs. Gilbert W. Humphrey (FL)
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TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO Iris Harvie, President, Volunteer Council of Th e Cleveland Orchestra
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Carolyn Dessin, Chair, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Operating Committee
Dr. Lester Lefton, President, Kent State University
Barbara R. Snyder, President, Case Western Reserve University
PAST PRESIDENTS D. Z. Norton 1915-21
John L. Severance 1921-36
Dudley S. Blossom 1936-38
Thomas L. Sidlo 1939-53
Percy W. Brown 1953-55
Frank E. Taplin, Jr. 1955-57
Frank E. Joseph 1957-68
Alfred M. Rankin 1968-83
Ward Smith 1983-95
Richard J. Bogomolny 1995-2002, 2008-09
James D. Ireland III 2002-08
T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A Gary Hanson, Executive Director
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Richard J. Bogomolny, Chairman
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Beth E. Mooney, Treasurer
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Franz Welser-Möst Music Director Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair The Cleveland Orchestra
THE 2011-1 2 SEASON marks Franz Welser-Möst’s
tenth year as Music Director of The Cleveland Or-
chestra, with a long-term commitment extending to
the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his direc-
tion, the Orchestra is acclaimed for its continuing
artistic excellence, is enlarging and enhancing its
community programming at home, is presented in
a series of ongoing residencies in the United States
and Europe, continues its historic championship
of new composers through commissions and pre-
mieres, and has re-established itself as an important
operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in
Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Möst became General Music
Director of the Vienna State Opera in September 2010.
With a committed focus on music education in Northeast Ohio, Franz
Welser-Möst has taken The Cleveland Orchestra back into public schools with
performances in collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
The initiative continues and expands upon Mr. Welser-Möst’s active participation
in community concerts and educational programs, including the Cleveland Or-
chestra Youth Orchestra and partnerships with music conservatories and universi-
ties across Northeast Ohio.
Under Mr. Welser-Möst’s leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra has estab-
lished an ongoing biennial residency in Vienna at the famed Musikverein con-
cert hall and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Together, they have appeared
in residence at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Salzburg Festival, where
a 2008 residency included five sold-out performances of a staged production of
Dvořák’s opera Rusalka. In the United States, Mr. Welser-Möst has established
an annual multi-week Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency in Florida and
launched a new biennial residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival in 2011.
Under Franz Welser-Möst’s direction, The Cleveland Orchestra has per-
formed thirteen world and fifteen United States premieres. Through the Roche
Commissions project, he and the Orchestra have premiered works by Harrison
Birtwistle, Chen Yi, Hanspeter Kyburz, George Benjamin, and Toshio Hosokawa
in partnership with the Lucerne Festival and Carnegie Hall. In addition, the Dan-
iel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow program has brought new voices to the rep-
ertoire, including Marc-André Dalbavie, Matthias Pintscher, Susan Botti, Julian
Anderson, Johannes Maria Staud, Jörg Widmann, and Sean Shepherd.
Franz Welser-Möst has led opera performances each season during his
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tenure in Cleveland, re-establishing the Orchestra as an im-
portant operatic ensemble. Following six opera-in-concert
presentations, he brought fully staged opera back to Severance
Hall with a three-season cycle of Zurich Opera productions of
the Mozart-Da Ponte operas. He leads concert performances
of Strauss’s Salome at Severance Hall and at Carnegie Hall dur-
ing the 2011-12 season.
Franz Welser-Möst became General Music Director of
the Vienna State Opera with the 2010-11 season. His long
partnership with the company has included acclaimed perfor-
mances of Tristan and Isolde, a new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with stage
director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, and, in his first season in the post, critically praised
new productions of Hindemith’s Cardillac and Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. During
the 2011-12 season, he continues his survey of the operas of Janáček with a
new production of From the House of the Dead and also leads a new production
of Verdi’s Don Carlo.
Mr. Welser-Möst also maintains an ongoing relationship with the Vienna Phil-
harmonic. Recent performances with the Philharmonic include appearances at the
Lucerne Festival and Salzburg Festival, in Tokyo, and in concert at La Scala Milan, as
well as leading the Philharmonic’s 2011 New Year’s Day concert, viewed by telecast
in seventy countries worldwide. Across a decade-long tenure with the Zurich Opera,
culminating in three seasons as General Music Director (2005-08), Mr. Welser-Möst
led the company in more than 40 new productions and numerous revivals.
Franz Welser-Möst’s recordings and videos have won major awards, including
the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and
two Grammy nominations. With The Cleveland Orchestra, he has created DVD
recordings of live performances of four Bruckner symphonies, presented in three
accoustically distinctive venues: Symphony No. 5 in the Abbey of St. Florian in
Austria, Symphony No. 9 in Vienna’s Musikverein, and Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8
at Severance Hall. With Cleveland, he has also released a recording of Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony as well as an all-Wagner album featuring soprano Measha Brueg-
gergosman. DVD releases on the EMI label have included Mr. Welser-Möst leading
Zurich Opera productions of The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni,
Der Rosenkavalier, La Bohème, Fierrabras, and Peter Grimes.
For his talents and dedication, Mr. Welser-Möst has received honors that
include recognition from the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, honorary
membership in the Vienna Singverein, appointment as an Academician of the Euro-
pean Academy of Yuste, a Gold Medal from the Upper Austrian government for his
work as a cultural ambassador, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of
America. He is the co-author of Cadences: Observations and Conversations, pub-
lished in a German edition in 2007.
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Franz Welser-MöstM U S I C D I R E C T O R
Kelvin Smith Family Chair
Christoph von DohnányiMUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE
Giancarlo GuerreroPRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI RESIDENCY
James FeddeckASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair
MUSIC DIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Sasha MäkiläASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair
Robert PorcoDIRECTOR OF CHORUSES
Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair
Lisa WongASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES
Ann UsherDIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHILDREN’S CHORUS
Frank BianchiDIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS
Lisa ManningASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS
FIRST VIOLINSWilliam PreucilCONCERTMASTER
Blossom-Lee Chair
Yoko MooreASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair
Peter OttoFIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Jung-Min Amy LeeASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTERGretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair
Lev PolyakinASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brownand Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair
Takako MasamePaul and Lucille Jones Chair
Wei-Fang GuDrs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair
Kim GomezElizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair
Chul-In ParkHarriet T. and David L.Simon Chair
Miho HashizumeTh eodore Rautenberg Chair
Jeanne Preucil RoseDr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair
Alicia KoelzOswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair
Yu YuanPatty and John Collinson Chair
Isabel TrautweinTrevor and Jennie Jones Chair
Mark DummGladys B. Goetz Chair
Alexandra PreucilKatherine BormannYing Fu
SECOND VIOLINSStephen Rose*
Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair
Emilio Llinas 2
James and Donna Reid Chair
Eli Matthews 1
Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair
Elayna DuitmanIoana MissitsCarolyn Gadiel WarnerStephen WarnerSae ShiragamiVladimir DeninzonSonja Braaten MolloyScott WeberKathleen CollinsBeth WoodsideEmma ShookJeffrey Zehngut
VIOLASRobert Vernon*
Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair
Lynne Ramsey1
Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair
Stanley Konopka 2
Mark JackobsJean Wall Bennett Chair
Arthur KlimaRichard WaughLisa BoykoLembi VeskimetsEliesha NelsonJoanna Patterson ZakanyPatrick Connolly
CELLOSMark Kosower*Louis D. Beaumont Chair
Richard Weiss1
Th e GAR Foundation Chair
Charles Bernard2
Helen Weil Ross Chair
Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair
Tanya EllRalph CurryBrian ThorntonDavid Alan HarrellPaul KushiousMartha BaldwinThomas Mansbacher
BASSESMaximilian Dimoff *
Clarence T. Reinberger Chair
Kevin Switalski 2
Scott Haigh1
Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair
Mark AthertonThomas SperlHenry Peyrebrune
Charles Barr Memorial Chair
Charles CarletonScott Dixon
HARPTrina Struble*
Alice Chalifoux Chair
FLUTESJoshua Smith*
Elizabeth M. andWilliam C. Treuhaft Chair
Saeran St. ChristopherMarisela Sager 2
Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair
Mary Kay Fink
F R A N Z W E L S E R - M Ö S T M U S I C D I R E C TO R Kelvin Smith Family Chair
The Orchestra
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* Principal § Associate Principal 1 First Assistant Principal 2 Assistant Principal
PICCOLOMary Kay Fink
Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair
OBOESFrank Rosenwein*
Edith S. Taplin Chair
Jeffrey Rathbun 2
Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair
Robert Walters
ENGLISH HORNRobert Walters
Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaff e Chair
CLARINETSFranklin Cohen*
Robert Marcellus Chair
Robert WoolfreyDaniel McKelway 2
Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair
Linnea Nereim
E-FLAT CLARINETDaniel McKelway
Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair
BASS CLARINETLinnea Nereim
BASSOONSJohn Clouser *Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair
Barrick Stees2
Sandra L. Haslinger Chair
Jonathan Sherwin
CONTRABASSOONJonathan Sherwin
HORNSRichard King *George Szell Memorial Chair
Michael Mayhew §
Knight Foundation Chair
Jesse McCormickHans ClebschRichard SolisAlan DeMattia
TRUMPETSMichael Sachs*
Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair
Jack SutteLyle Steelman2
James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair
Michael Miller
CORNETSMichael Sachs*Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair
Michael Miller
TROMBONESMassimo La Rosa*Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair
Richard StoutAlexander andMarianna C. McAfee Chair
Shachar Israel2
BASS TROMBONEThomas Klaber
EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPETRichard Stout
TUBAYasuhito Sugiyama*
Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair
TIMPANIPaul Yancich*
Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair
Tom Freer 2
PERCUSSIONJacob Nissly*Margaret Allen Ireland Chair
Donald MillerTom FreerMarc Damoulakis
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTSJoela Jones*
Rudolf Serkin Chair
Carolyn Gadiel WarnerMarjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair
LIBRARIANSRobert O’BrienDonald Miller
ORCHESTRA PERSONNELCarol Lee IottDIRECTOR
Rebecca VineyardMANAGER
ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIEDASSISTANT PRINCIPAL HARP
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“A pure-bred elegance is transmitted to all sections; the brilliance of the winds is inspired by the transparency of the strings, though
their sound is never overpowering. Are American orchestras too
fl ashy, too thundering? Cleveland is the dream antidote to this
persistent cliché. Here is the most refi ned of orchestras, where the
supernatural cohesion of the attacks never turns into a power show
by an advancing army.” —Le Figaro, October 28, 2011
Conquering musical Europe isn’t easy for an American orchestra. But once again our
own Cleveland musicians under Franz’s direction came home last weekend triumphant
from a demanding concert tour in some of the most competitive music centers any-
where, including Madrid, Paris, and Vienna.
Winning the championship, in music no diff erent than in sports, and doing so year af-
ter year, takes talent, dedication, and hard work. It also takes practice. Over the course
of a three-week roadtrip, within a packed schedule of rehearsals, concerts and travel,
Cleveland’s musicians stole time to practice scales, arpeggios, and etudes so that with the
downbeat of each evening’s performance their collective artistry was at its peak.
It’s an extraordinary aural experience to walk down the hotel hallway on the afternoon
of a concert. The space is alive with music emanating from behind the doors to the
rooms. Disconnected musical phrases rise and fall as you pass by. A tricky viola passage
gives way to a clarinet melody, followed by a set of challenging, high register double-
stops from a cello.
Members of the Orchestra also found time on tour to share their talents with others out-
side the concert hall. Musicians taught masterclasses in Lisbon, Granada, Valencia, and
Venice among other cities, and also came together to perform chamber music for gener-
ous sponsors.
This hard work and dedication on tour is no less than what these musicians do here at
home. Cleveland Orchestra players have a tradition of giving back to the community
and to the institution wherever they are. Musicians generously organize and support
fundraisers for a variety of worthy causes. They support the United Way annually, and
when called upon, they organize benefi t concerts in response to natural disasters, as
they did for recent earthquake victims in Haiti and Japan. They teach students of all
levels in Northeast Ohio, serve as volunteer leaders in non-profi ts, and contribute to
charities of all kinds. There is even a group of ace orthographers who are renowned as
winners of the annual spelling bee fundraiser that supports the Cleveland Heights-Uni-
versity Heights public schools.
Franz and I, together with our Trustee leaders, admire and appreciate all the time and
eff ort that the members of The Cleveland Orchestra devote to their art form and to the
many important needs of the community. And I know that the musicians join with us in
thanking you for your generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra.
Perspectives from the Executive Director
Gary Hanson
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Franz Welser-Möst and Orchestra receive accolades throughout European Tour and Vienna Residency Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra returned home on November 6 from their eleventh international tour together, including the Orchestra’s fi fth biennial residency at Vienna’s historic Musikverein concert hall. Throughout the tour, press reviews — excerpted on these pages — extended praise and accolades to the Orchestra for its precision and musicality. In addition to the Vienna Musikverein Residency, the tour fea-tured two concerts in Madrid, Paris, and Luxembourg, and single concerts in Valencia, Cologne, and Linz. During the four-concert Musikverein Residency, the Orchestra gave two performances of Mozart’s “Great” Mass in C minor, featuring soprano Malin Hartelius, soprano Juliane Banse, tenor Martin Mitterrutzner, baritone Ruben Drole, and the Vienna Singverein. Cellist Truls Mørk was soloist with the Orchestra in Luxembourg. The thirteen-concert, seven-city tour began with per-formances in Madrid, Spain, on October 20 and 21 and ended in Vienna on November 5. Tour sponsors included Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, Tele München Group, Jones Day, LNE Group / Lee Weingart, Miba AG, and SEMAG GmbH, with additional support from a group of generous individuals.
“And in fact, the music sounded fabulous — with the weapons that Welser-Möst handles so scrupulously: precision, rhythmic control, a certain highly effective mini-malism. All that, plus the assurance of having an orchestra like Cleveland at his com-mand: compact, secure, even luminous.”
—El Pais, October 22, 2011
“Welser-Möst was restrained in Mendelssohn, dominating in Stravinsky, and brilliant in Ravel. His gestures are sober, his movements a bit mechanical; his image ranges from timid to robot-like, from subtle to introverted. The analytic part takes prece-dence over the expressive. The artistic results are overwhelmingly effective. It is the art of perfection, pure and simple. No excessive emphases, no special effects, none of those ‘strokes of genius’ that are so often arbitrary. He even smiled in the Ravel, completely won over by the work’s rhythmic and timbral richness. All sections of the orchestra responded homogeneously and with great class.”
—El Pais, October 22, 2011
“We were immediately won over by the agility of the strings, the warmly stream-ing sound of the woodwind, the unshakable security of the brass. The true miracle, then, occurred in the two major works on the program, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Sym-phony and, before intermission, the Doctor Atomic Symphony by John Adams.”
—KlassikInfo.de, October 30, 2011
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“Franz Welser-Möst navigated his orchestra, which cannot be called anything but fantastic, with a secure sense of control and great restraint. At no time did he give in to sensationalism in this music, which is so rich in contrasts between pandemonic eruptions and soothing major-mode consonance. Some members of the orchestra distinguished themselves with impressive solos; above all, trumpeter Michael Sachs knocked our socks off with his sovereign technique.”
—KlassikInfo.de, October 30, 2011
“In concerts Tuesday and Wednesday at Salle Pleyel, an historic hall near L’Arc de Triomphe, the orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst more than proved themselves worthy of a long-term presence here, dazzling two nearly sold-out crowds and leaving audiences eager for more. Both nights, in fact, they were re-galed with multiple rounds of synchronized clapping.”
—Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer, October 27, 2011
“This pure-bred elegance is transmitted to all sections; the brilliance of the winds is inspired by the transparencey of the strings, though their sound is never overpow-ering. Are American orchestras too fl ashy, too thundering? Cleveland is the dream antidote to this persistent cliché. Here is the most refi ned of orchestras, where the supernatural cohesion of the attacks never turns into a power show by an advanc-ing army.” —Le Figaro, October 28, 2011
“The triumph of the evening, marked by a prolonged acclaim, was due to Mozart’s great C-minor Mass (K. 427). Here Welser-Möst gradually unveiled an overall plan that was as comprehensive as it was successful, dashing and radiant, expressive and stylish.” —Vienna Kurier, November 2, 2011
“Yet for all the technical craftsmanship, one can also bring out the eloquence of this music, if one lets true emotions resonate. Franz Welser-Möst has succeeded in doing just that, since he has the fi nest string playing to build upon and is thus able to turn a breathtakingly beautiful study in sound into a moving, expressive musical statement without forcing the interpretation in the least.”
—Die Presse, November 1, 2011
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Gary Hanson invited to joinNestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award Jury
Cleveland Orchestra Executive Direc-tor Gary Hanson will join the jury for theNestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Con-ductors Award in 2012. He joins a panel of13 jurors invited to participate, includingchairman Ingo Metzmacher and Americanbaritone Thomas Hampson.
The Nestlé and Salzburg Festival YoungConductors Award was created in 2010 asan initiative of Nestlé and the Salzburg Fes-tival under the patronage of Pierre Boulez.The competition aims to give career mo-mentum to highly talented young conduc-tors. German conductor David Afkham(who made his Cleveland Orchestra debutat the 2011 Blossom Festival) was the first prize-winner in 2010, and Ainars Rubikisfrom Latvia won the award in 2011.
In 2012, the three final candidates will each conduct a concert during a weekendin April in the famous Felsenreitschule inSalzburg. In three public concerts, thepartner orchestras of the weekend will bethe Camerata Salzburg, the Salzburg Mo-zarteum Orchestra, and the Munich RadioOrchestra. The prize of € 15,000 is award-ed annually to a conductor ages 22 to 35.
“I am honored to join my distin-guished colleagues on the jury for thisaward, and to have this unique chance todiscover and promote the best among thenext generation of orchestral conductors,”Gary Hanson said upon his selection.
F.A.M. I .L .Y N .E .W.S Please join in extending congratula-tions and warm wishes to: Sonja Braaten Molloy (violin)and Owen Molloy, whose baby daughter,Annika Swede, was born on October 10. Alicia Koelz (violin) and ChrisGeorgalis, whose baby daughter, Penelo-pe Maria Georgalis, was born on Septem-ber 30.
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OrchestraNewsCleveland Orchestra and partner Conn-Selmer provide violins to El Sistema@Rainey
Thirty very excited students receivedbrand-new violins at a special event in Oc-tober as part of the inaugural year of ElSistema@Rainey, a comprehensive after-school orchestral music program launchedby the Rainey Institute and ClevelandOrchestra violinist Isabel Trautweinwith the 2011-12 school year. TheCleveland Orchestra with its partnerConn-Selmer are the official provid-ers of Scherl & Roth violins for theEl Sistema@Rainey program. In its first year, El Sistema@Rainey is providing ten hours of weeklygroup violin instruction and education-al support to 30 children in Clevelandin grades 1-4, with plans to expand tomore students in future years. Youngmusicians will also have opportunitiesto perform onstage at Severance Halland participate in masterclasses withCleveland Orchestra musicians. IsabelTrautwein, who serves as the artisticdirector for El Sistema@Rainey, wasgranted a year-long leave of absencefrom The Cleveland Orchestra last sea-son to participate in a formal trainingprogram to study the methods of ElSistema (“the system”) in Venezuelaand Boston, with the goal of buildingan El Sistema “nucleo” in Cleveland.El Sistema was founded more than35 years ago in Venezuela by econo-mist, musician, and social reformerDr. José Antonio Abreu. Today, theprogram serves more than 350,000 children through neighborhood-baseddaily music instruction. El Sistema@Rainey joins El Sistemaprograms worldwide, including thosebased in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston,Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.
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On Saturday night, November 12,Cleveland Orchestra Executive DirectorGary Hanson announced a pledge to TheCleveland Orchestra’s Endowment Fundof $5 million from Alexander and SarahCutler. The Alexander and Sarah CutlerFund for Student Audiences will supportexisting and new programs that encour-age and facilitate student attendance inperpetuity to Cleveland Orchestra con-certs in Severance Hall.
The Cutlers’ gift is another step to-ward fully funding the Orchestra’s Cen-ter for Future Audiences at $60 million,increasing the current total to $25 mil-lion. The Center, endowed by the MaltzFamily Foundation, is a multi-facetedand long-term audience developmentinitiative announced in 2010 with a leadgift from the Foundation. The Centeraims to increase audiences, includingmore young people, each season. TheCenter is taking the Orchestra in a newstrategic direction where the primarygoal is to create broader access for theNortheast Ohio community.
In announcing the gift, Hanson said,“We are grateful to Sandy and Sally fortheir extraordinary philanthropy andtheir belief in the future of The Cleve-land Orchestra. This generous gift is anendorsement of our mission to trans-form the institution and our audience.We are committed to becoming an evenmore relevant and responsive commu-nity resource for Northeast Ohio.”
Alexander Cutler has been an Or-chestra Trustee since 2000. “Sally andI are honored to help the Orchestraevolve,” he said. “Outreach to younger
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audiences is a critical element in thatevolution. The opportunity to attend theperformances of a truly world-class or-chestra right here in our own communityhas meant a great deal to us and we arehopeful that our gift will enhance theopportunity of students to have this sameexperience.”
8,000 students attended concerts lastyear at Severance Hall, making up an aver-age of 8% of the current audience. Withfull subsidy, student attendance shouldincrease to 15% by the Orchestra’s centen-nial in 2018. Among programs servingstudent audiences are: an annual studentweekend that launched this weekendwith deeply discounted tickets available inadvance, and a new Student Ambassadorsprogram that engages college students toinvite their friends and peers. The currentStudent Advantage Program attendancewill be increased through enhanced part-nerships with colleges and universities.
$5 million gift from Alexander and Sarah Cutler announced, to subsidize student attendance for Orchestra concerts at Severance Hall
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OrchestraNewsCleveland Orchestra now available as an app for mobile phones
The Cleveland Orchestra’s websiteis now available in a streamlined formatas an application for cell phones. The“app” can be downloaded in versions foriPhone or Android phones, and many ofits features also display on other web-ready mobile phones.
The new app offersfans a convenient andstreamlined way to pur-chase tickets, listen toCleveland Orchestra ra-dio broadcasts, and con-nect to the Orchestra’ssocial media. Createdin partnership withInstantEncore.com, aleading performing artsdigital platform, theapp connects fans to TheCleveland Orchestra Blog,Facebook, YouTube, andinformation about theOrchestra (including musicians’ photosand biographies) and venues. The appalso allows on-demand, streaming broad-casts from WCLV of performances by TheCleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Or-chestra Youth Orchestra.
This latest tech innovation is an ad-dition to the Orchestra’s ongoing socialmedia platforms and website, includingThe Cleveland Orchestra Blog (viewedby readers in all 50 states and more than100 countries), Facebook, Twitter, Flickr,and YouTube. The Cleveland Orchestra’swebsite offers convenient online seatselection and print-at-home ticketing.Additional features to the mobile appwill be added in the coming months.
The app can be downloaded freefrom the iTunes Stores or Android Mar-ketplace. Links for downloading can alsobe found on the Orchestra’s homepage.
New Cleveland Orchestrarecording features live performance of “Rusalka”from Salzburg Festival
The Cleveland Orchestra’s newestrecording is a live audio recording ofDvořák’s opera Rusalka, performed under
Franz Welser-Möst’s direc-tion as part of the 2008Salzburg Festival. Thealbum on the Orfeo la-bel was released at theend of September andcomes in CD format or asa music download. TheCD version is availablefrom the Cleveland Or-
chestra Store at Severance Hall. The August 2008 performancesof Rusalka marked the first time that The Cleveland Orchestra played fromthe orchestra pit for an opera productionat the Salzburg Festival. The five soldout Rusalka performances were part of a Fes-tival Residency that also included Welser-Möst conducting the Orchestra in threedifferent concert programs. Prior to thestaged Salzburg performances, Welser-Möst and the Orchestra presented in-con-cert performances of Rusalka in Clevelandin June 2008. The reviewer for London’s SundayTimes praised the Salzburg production,calling it “the most spellbinding accountof Dvořák’s miraculous score I have everheard, either in the theatre or on record.. . . I doubt this music can be betterplayed than by the Clevelanders, the most‘European’ of the American orchestras,with wind and brass soloists to die forand a string sound of superlative warmthand sensitivity.” The London Sunday Telegraph review said, “the playing of theCleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst is sumptuously beautiful and exqui-sitely detailed, allowing Dvořák’s operaticmasterpiece to weave a strong spell at itsfirst-ever Salzburg showing.”
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2011-12 Celebrity Serieson sale now — featuringvariety of artists withThe Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra’s season ofCelebrity Series concerts was announcedover the summer and is now on sale asseries subscriptions or on an individualconcert basis. The Celebrity Series fea-tures the Orchestra and guest artists per-forming popular, film, and jazz music.
The season’s four programs are:Singer-songwriter Randy Newman
(December 3), known for his scores forsuch films as Toy Story and hit singlessuch as “Short People,” performs withThe Cleveland Orchestra. The Colors of Christmas (De-cember 20), featuring vocalists PeaboBryson, Jennifer Holliday, Lea Salonga,and Ben Vereen performing Christmasand holiday favorites with the Orchestra.
Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights(March 31), a timeless romantic comedy,shown on a large screen with the film score performed live by The ClevelandOrchestra, with guest conductor WilliamEddins.
John Pizzarelli (April 10), jazz gui-tarist and vocalist, joins the Orchestra to pay tribute to Nat “King” Cole withfavorites from the Great American Song-book.
Women’s Committee continues a holiday traditionwith Silver Bells raising moneyfor The Cleveland Orchestra
Silver Bells and The Cleveland Orch-estra have gone hand in hand for morethan four decades, and they’re ringing inanother year. Reed & Barton silver bells in-scribed with “Christmas 2011”are being sold to benefit Community and Educationprograms of The Cleve-land Orchestra. A project of the Women’s Committeeof The ClevelandOrchestra, the Sil-ver Bells sale is alsoa labor of lovefor Beth Schreibman Gehring, presidentof the Women’s Committee, whose par-ents began selling the bells to benefit the Orchestra more than 40 years ago. Silver-plated Reed & Barton bells tobenefit the Orchestra cost $20. The bells can be purchased from the Cleveland Or-chestra Store and from several local giftshops. In addition, Women’s Committeemembers will be selling the bells in the lob-bies of Severance Hall at many ClevelandOrchestra concerts throughout Novemberand December.
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The Cleveland Orchestra Blog
Looking for the latest news about The Cleveland Orchestra? Or behind-the-scenes information about an upcom-ing artist or event? Photographs from a recent event? Learn more online at clevelandorchestrablog.com. Check out recent postings to: — Read reports and view photos from the Orchestra’s recent European Tour and Vienna Residency; — Admire a local artist’s rendering of Severance Hall—number 93 in a series of 100 depictions of Cleveland sights; — Connect to a Plain Dealer preview of Franz’s 10th season — and remember what our music director looked like when
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he took the helm; — View photos from the Orchestra’s 9/11 Commemoration Concert; — Meet the new members of the Orchestra.
Read all this and more at our Blog.You can post your own comments, too. Or visit the Orchestra at Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and watch us on YouTube!
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Family Concerts continue with“Scenes from Th e Nutcracker”on Friday, December 2
The Cleveland Orch estra’s 2011-12 Family Concert Series, for young people ages 7 and older, began with a special Halloween Spooktacular! in October and continues on December 2 with Scenes from The Nutcracker featuring the Joffrey Academy Trainees from The Joffrey Bal-
let. This favorite holiday story comes to life on the Severance Hall stage with all the fun and magic of the Christmas season as these talented young danc-ers add a special sparkle to Tchaikovsky’s music.
In addition to the concert, each of the season’s four Family Concerts features free pre-concert activities and post-concert treats. The activities, starting one hour before each concert, include Instrument Discovery, where children can try various instruments. After each performance, families are invited to enjoy a free treat compliments of series sponsor Giant Eagle. The series features two more con-certs after The Nutcraker — Scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker (with Academy Trainees from The Joffrey Ballet) in De-cember, Carnival of the Animals in April, and Beethoven Lives Upstairs (with Classi-cal Kids Live!) in May. Family Concert Series subscriptions and individual tickets are now available at clevelandorchestra.com or thru the Severance Hall Ticket Offi ce.
Silence is golden
As a courtesy to the performers on-stage and the audience around you, all patrons are reminded to turn off cell phones and to disengage electron-ic watch alarms prior to the concert.
Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award given to Richard Weiner at concert on October 13
The Cleveland Orchestra’s sixteeth annual Distinguished Service Award was presented to former principal percussion-ist Richard Weiner on October 13, at the start of that week’s Thursday evening concert at Severance Hall. The award, created in 1997, honors a person or or-ganization that has provided continuing exemplary service to the Musical Arts Association, the non-profi t parent organization that oper-ates The Cleveland Or-chestra, Severance Hall, and Blossom Festival. Richard Weiner was appointed to The Cleveland Orchestra in 1963 by George Szell, who appointed him principal percussionist in 1968. Weiner served as principal percussionist of the Or-chestra for 43 years up to his retirement in August this year, leading the section longer than anyone else in the Orchestra’s history. He also served on a variety of Cleveland Orchestra committees over the decades, including the Negotiation Com-mittee (which he chaired for many years), Artistic Advisory Committee, Pension Committee, Travel Committee, and the Severance Hall Renovation Committee. In announcing Weiner’s selection in August, Executive Director Gary Han-son said, “Richard Weiner has served The Cleveland Orch estra with distinction over his 48-year tenure. As principal percussion-ist, Rich has exemplifi ed the Orchestra’s devotion to the highest standards of artis-tic excellence. He has also played a vital role off-stage representing the musicians’ interests during more than four decades of institutional growth. Everyone in the Orchestra family owes Rich a debt of grati-tude for his selfl ess and dedicated service.”
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Women’s Committee celebrates ninety yearswith special fashion show
The Women’s Committee of TheCleveland Orchestra celebrated their90th anniversary with a fashion revueand luncheon at Severance Hall on July18, attended by more than 300 membersand guests. President Beth SchreibmanGehring welcomed the Ursuline CollegeSchool of Fashion Design in a presenta-tion of fashions from the past 90 years.The Women’s Committee is dedicatedto providing support for The ClevelandOrchestra through volunteer service, edu-cation activities, and fundraising oppor-tunities. For additional information onvolunteering, please call 216-231-7557.
“Endless Summer” galacelebrates Blossom and The Cleveland Orchestra
The State Blossom Women’s Com-mittee staged an end-of-summer gala onFriday, September 9, in Twinsburg to ben-efit The Cleveland Orchestra and Blossom. Titled “Endless Summer,” the benefit commemorated the 2011 Blossom Festivalseason and all things musical. State Chair-man Phyllis Knauf notes that the eventwas a collaboration of all chapters of BWCand was their most ambitious fundraisingeffort in the 43-year history of the orga-nization. The “Endless Summer” gala eveningfeatured a Strolling Supper prepared bynine Celebrity Chefs from Northeast Ohio. Among the evening’s fundraising itemswere six steamer trunks once belongingto Cleveland Orchestra musicians, whichhad been restored and decorated by lo-cal artists commissioned by the BlossomWomen’s Committee.
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Franz Welser-Möstgiven “Key to the City”by Cleveland Mayorat Opening Night Gala
The Cleveland Orchestra’s OpeningNight Gala at Severance Hall on October1 featured a special surprise moment forFranz Welser-Möst, when Cleveland May-or Frank Jackson presented the Orches-tra’s conductor with a ceremonial “key tothe city” (above). The award was givento recognize the value of Franz’s workin extending and enhancing Cleveland’sreputation internationally. The gala evening, presented underthe leadership of gala chair Norma Lernerand gala corporate chair Beth Mooney,marked the official start of Franz Welser-Möst’s tenth season as music director. Theevent, which included an hour-long con-cert by The Cleveland Orchestra, raised$650,000. Proceeds from the evening willbe used to create an education fund inFranz’s name, honoring his initiatives onbehalf of music education. Of Ravel’s Boléro from the evening’sconcert, The Plain Dealer wrote: “Prov-ing he holds the key to Ravel as well asCleveland, Welser-Möst offered a hard-hitting performance, one that began withnear-silent tapping . . . and ended with acataclysmic punch.”
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Save the Datefor the 80th Annual
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Lawrence Wiliford, tenor;Isaiah Bell, tenor;
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Concert Previews Cleveland Orchestra Concert Previews
are presented before every regular subscrip-
tion concert, and are free to all ticketholders
to that day’s performance. Previews are de-
signed to enrich the concert-going experience
for audience members of all levels of musical
knowledge through a variety of interviews and
through talks by local and national experts.
Concert Previews are made possible
by a generous endowment gift from
Dorothy Humel Hovorka.
November 17, 18, and 19“Bach’s Music for Court and City” with David J. Rothenberg,
associate professor of musicology,
Case Western Reserve University
November 25, 26, and 27“Symphonic Opera, Vocal Piano” with Michael Strasser,
professor of musicology,
Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music
December 8 and 10“Musical Splendor and Radiance” with Rabbi Roger Klein,
The Temple – Tifereth Israel
January 12, 13, and 14“Beloved Favorites” with Rose Breckenridge,
Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups
administrator and lecturer
For future Concert Preview details, visit clevelandorchestra.com
LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE MUSIC
The Cleveland Orchestra off ers a vari-
ety of options for learning more about
the music before each concert begins.
For each concert, the program book
includes program notes commenting
on and providing background about
the composer and his or her work
being performed that week, along
with biographies of the guest artists
and other information. You can read
these before the concert, at intermis-
sion, or afterward. (Program notes
are also posted ahead of time online
at clevelandorchestra.com, usually by
the Monday directly preceding the
concert.)
The Orchestra’s Music Study
Groups also provide a way of explor-
ing the music in more depth. These
classes, professionally led by Dr. Rose
Breckenridge, meet weekly in loca-
tions around Cleveland to explore the
music being played each week and the
stories behind the composers’ lives.
Free Concert Previews are pre-
sented one hour before most subscrip-
tion concerts throughout the season
at Severance Hall. The previews (see
listing at right) feature a variety of
speakers and guest artists speaking
or conversing about that weekend’s
program, and often include the oppor-
tunity for audience members to ask
questions.
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Ton Koopman, conductor
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV1046 1. [no tempo marking] 2. Adagio 3. Allegro 4. Menuetto — Trio — Menuetto — Polacca — Menuetto — Trio II — Menuetto
“Wedding” Cantata, BWV202 1. Aria: “Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten” [Draw back, sad shadows] 2. Recitative: “Die Welt wird wieder neu” [The world is renewed] 3. Aria: “Phoebus eilt mit schnellen Pferden” [The sun gallops with swift horses] 4. Recitative: “Drum sucht auch Amor sein Vergnügen” [Thus Love seeks his pleasures too] 5. Aria: “Wenn die Frühlingslüfte streichen” [When spring breezes blow] 6. Recitative: “Und dieses ist das Glücke” [And this is happiness] 7. Aria: “Sich üben im Lieben” [To be in love] 8. Recitative: “So sei das Band der keuschen Liebe” [So may the bond of pure love] 9. Aria (Gavotte): “Sehet in Zufriedenheit” [May you witness contentment]
TERESA WAKIM, soprano
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Sinfonia in B minor, from Cantata BWV209 Sinfonia in D minor, from Cantata BWV42 Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068 Overture — Air — Gavotte I — Gavotte II — Bourrée — Gigue
These concerts are sponsored by Jones Day.
Ton Koopman’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by the Malcolm E. Kenney Artist-in-Residence Fund. The concert will end at about 9:45 p.m.
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I N T R O D U C I N G T H E P R O G R A M
Johann Sebastian Bach PROFICIENT, PROLIFIC, PRACTICALPROFICIENT, PROLIFIC, PRACTICALA S A M A N A N D M U S I C I A N , Bach was profi cient, prolifi c, and practical.
Th ese are admirable qualities in any walk of life, but for an 18th-century com-
poser they were almost a prerequisite for the satisfactory performance of one’s
functions, whether at court, in church, or in the theater. What separated Bach from
lesser men was the profi ciency, which went far beyond professionalism and exper-
tise to a superhuman command of the intricacies of musical language nowhere even
remotely approached by any of his contemporaries. A god-given fl uency in highly
complicated music was evident from his earliest years, and it simply reached higher
and higher until he embarked on the extraordinarily complex musical tours de force
that occupied the last phase of his life, the Musical Off ering and the Art of Fugue.
Such technical wizardry might have produced unintelligible and unattractive
works (as it was prone to do in the 20th century), but Bach never lost sight of clar-
ity, balance, and beauty as essential elements of fi ne Baroque art. If he heard one
complex line in his head — for the oboe, say, or the violin — he could also hear
one, two, or more counterpoints running alongside it, and of course always the
bass. He might have saved himself a lot of time if he had kept his music simpler,
like Vivaldi’s, but that was not in his nature. Th e intricate tracery of Bach’s music
never clogs the ear, and we never judge his music to be overwrought or over-
written.
Prolifi c he was, too (and not just in the fathering of twenty children). Al-
though in this he was outclassed by Telemann, his friend and rival, and by sev-
eral other composers of the time, who dashed off so many musical notes that it
is impossible to count them all. Nonetheless, some two hundred church cantatas
by Bach survive, while probably a further hundred are lost. And no one should
lament that loss until they have familiarized themselves with the two hundred
we do have — and that itself is a formidable task, so varied and so profound do
these cantatas tend to be.
During the late 1720s, when Bach embarked on his grand plan to provide
the church, specifi cally St. Th omas’s in Leipzig, with several cycles of cantatas,
one for each Sunday and each feast day in the church year, he was writing music
at top speed, getting it copied, rehearsed, and performed, and then moving on
each week to the next one. Astoundingly, he found time to compose large-scale
Passions, such as the St. Matthew, in the same hugely productive period.
Practical meant for Bach a willingness to write the sort of music his patrons
required, not necessarily what he himself chose to write. Being a devout Lu-
theran, he was probably happiest in the service of the church, but when he was
About the Music
37Severance Hall 2011-12 About the Music
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employed by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen between 1717 and 1723, instru-
mental music was preferred and so that was what he wrote, with amazing facil-
ity and invention. Th e fi rst book of the 48 Preludes and Fugues, the Brandenburg
Concertos, chamber music, keyboard music, orchestral music, all in profusion.
Practical also meant writing music for whatever players were at hand, or arranging
cantatas as concertos, or vice versa. Keyboard concertos could be arranged for the
violin or oboe, or organ pieces could be transcribed for instruments. Bach never
wrote with his head in the clouds. No music he
wrote was ever wasted.
It was not given to Bach to enjoy the
same international celebrity as his contempo-
raries Handel or Corelli. Bach was well known
in the central German states as a virtuoso on
the organ and harpsichord, and he was much
in demand as an expert on organ building and
design. But he never travelled to France or Ita-
ly and never crossed the Rhine. Nor was much
of his music published in his lifetime, and he
was never involved with opera (which enjoyed
considerable international public interest, as
it still does). Like many musicians of his day,
he had no expectation that his music would be
appreciated by later generations — and indeed
most of it passed into obscurity for at least a
hundred years. Much of Bach’s music is lost beyond recall, yet the many hun-
dreds of works that have come down to us are evidence enough of his mastery of
a very sophisticated art.
His music is a virtuoso’s music — diffi cult to play and to sing, yet it is re-
markably resilient. We have learned much in recent years about how his music
sounded in his own time, yet today’s interpretations vary widely. Still, because
its essence is indestructible, Bach’s music can survive alarming extremes of speed
or gross malformations of the instrumental sound. Performed well, of course, it
has an uplift ing energy that can inspire any of us with gratitude that such a man
once lived and worked — and that such music can sound as fresh today as it did
nearly three hundred years ago. —Hugh Macdonald
OCTOBER 16, 2011–JANUARY 8, 2012
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Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Art Wednesday, November 30, 6:30. Artist Ji Yunfei and Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art
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Holiday Film Festival: Recent Chinese Cinema 1:30 each afternoon, December 26–31.
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Mandarin and Cantonese language tours Sunday, October 23, Saturday, November 26, and Wednesday, December 28, 1:00–2:00 (Mandarin) and 2:00–3:00 (Cantonese).
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39Severance Hall 2011-12 About the Music
T H E S I X B R A N D E N B U R G C O N C E R T O S were not conceived
as a group, but were gathered together in 1721 and presented to
Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, whom Bach had
met two years earlier when shopping in Berlin for a new harpsi-
chord. We don’t know if the Margrave ever looked at the scores
or had them performed, but his library and archives, fortunately
for us, preserved them until their rediscovery and publication in
the 19th century.
Th e concertos had mostly been composed during Bach’s ten-
ure at Anhalt-Cöthen, each for a diff erent combination of instru-
ments (probably occasioned by the availability of varying visiting
or resident musicians). Th us, in writing these works, Bach felt no
obligation to follow the traditional scoring of the Italian concerto
grosso, even though his debt to that repertoire was considerable.
Th e fi rst of the concertos in the series features the usual strings
and continuo with two horns, three oboes, and a violino piccolo, a
small violin tuned a minor-third higher, so that its A-string sounds
as a C-string. Horns were new in ensembles of this sort, having
been recently imported from the hunting horns of Louis XIV’s
court (which is possibly why we now call them “French” horns).
Bach gives them some distinctive hunting calls to play.
Th e formal principle behind Bach’s instrumental music re-
quired the alternation of textures, which in a concerto specifi cally
relates to the exposure of soloists and the responses of the full
band. Th ere is also a structure to emphasize the music’s arrival at
fi rm cadences at important points in the movement. Th e last key
is the same as the fi rst, while in between there may be two, three, or
more “arrivals” at related keys, not unlike stops along a journey.
A quick movement followed by a slow movement (without
horns) and another quick movement would satisfy Vivaldi and
others who thrived on the three-movement Italian concerto.
But here Bach adds a lengthy movement (of two intertwining
sections), transforming the concerto into a suite. Th ese sections
are dances, the Menuetto and the Polacca. Both are followed
by related Trio sections, and Bach asks that the Menuetto be
played between and then to conclude the entire work.
—Hugh Macdonald © 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV1046composed circa 1708-21
It is believed that Bach
wrote his six Brandenburg
Concertos as separate works
sometime between 1715 and
1721, although one or more
of them may have been
completed as early as 1708.
In early 1721, he gathered the
six pieces together, copying
them out as a set and submit-
ting them with a dedication
to the Margrave of Branden-
burg in the hopes of being
employed by the Margrave as
his court’s musical director.
It is unknown if the Margrave
ever viewed or heard the con-
certos. Some of them were
circulated in manuscript form
later in the 18th century, and
the “original” copied set was
rediscovered in the Mar-
grave’s archives in 1848 and
subsequently published.
This Concerto No. 1 runs
about 20 minutes in perfor-
mance. Bach scored it for a
grouping of 2 horns, 3 oboes,
bassoon, and violino piccolo
(small violin), plus a string
orchestra, including continuo
(low strings and harpsichord).
The Cleveland Orchestra
fi rst presented the Branden-
burg Concerto No. 1 in 1948,
in concerts led by George
Szell. It has been performed
occasionally since that time,
most recently at the 2000
Blossom Festival, led by John
Nelson.
At a Glance
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41Severance Hall 2011-12 About the Music
I N A D D I T I O N to two-hundred-some church cantatas, Bach’s
legacy includes over thirty secular cantatas. Some were com-
posed for civic or university ceremonies, some for birthdays,
and at least two were written for weddings. No. 202, which has
gained the nickname as the Wedding Cantata, probably dates
from the same period as the Brandenburg Concertos, or possi-
bly earlier. It is not known whose wedding was being honored,
yet it is clear from the words that this was a spring wedding.
And the light accompaniment (strings and oboe) suggests that
it was not particularly grand.
Church cantatas involved a choir oft en singing chorales,
but the secular cantatas, usually for fewer forces and solo voice,
followed the Italian model in alternating arias and recitatives.
In this Wedding Cantata, the fi rst aria suggests the lift -
ing of winter’s gloom with an intricate dialogue between oboe
and soprano. Th e second gives us the swift horses of Phoebus
(another name for the god Apollo), pitting voice and continuo
in vigorous contest.
Th e third aria introduces an elegant solo violin, and the
fourth is a charmingly tuneful duet with the oboe. Th e last of
the arias is in the stately mode of a Gavotte, a brief suggestion
of dance as a suitable close to the wedding festivities.
—Hugh Macdonald © 2011
Hugh Macdonald is Avis H. Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington University in St. Louis and is a noted authority on French music. He has written books on Beethoven, Berlioz, and Scriabin.
“Wedding” Cantata Cantata No. 202, BWV202composed circa 1718-23
It is believed that Bach
composed this cantata
sometime during his years
at Anhalt-Cöthen (1718-1723)
for a wedding in the town. It
survives in a manuscript from
1730. The author of the text,
mixing godly metaphors of
springtime with more earthly
allusions of love, is unknown.
This cantata runs just
over 20 minutes in perfor-
mance. Bach scored it for an
orchestra of oboe, violins, vio-
las, and continuo (low strings,
bassoon, and harpsichord on
the bass line), plus solo sopra-
no. In several of the arias, the
oboe or fi rst violin provides an
obbligato accompaniment to
the vocal line.
The Cleveland Orchestra
has presented this cantata in
only four previous seasons,
beginning with performances
led by George Szell in Febru-
ary 1954. The most recent
performances were in Janu-
ary 1989.
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Wedding CantataMUSIC BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
1. Aria
Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, Draw back, sad shadows,
Frost und Winde, geht zur Ruh’! frost and wind, go to rest!
Florens Lust Spring’s desire
Will der Brust will grant our hearts
Nichts als frohes Glück verstatten, nothing but joyful fortune,
Denn sie träget Blumen zu. for she comes bearing fl owers.
2. RecitativeDie Welt wird wieder neu, Th e world is renewed,
Auf Bergen und in Gründen on mountains and in fi elds
Will sich die Anmut doppelt schön verbinden, grace’s beauty is redoubled,
Der Tag ist von der Kälte frei. the days are free from frost.
3. Aria
Phoebus eilt mit schnellen Pferden Th e sun gallops with swift horses
Durch die neugeborne Welt. across the newly reborn world.
Ja, weil sie ihm wohlgefällt, Oh, yes, because this pleases him,
Will er selbst ein Buhler werden. he wants to be her lover.
4. Recitative
Drum sucht auch Amor sein Vergnügen, Th us Love seeks his pleasures too,
Wenn Purpur in den Wiesen lacht, when purple fi elds ripple with delight,
Wenn Florens Pracht sich herrlich macht, when the earth’s garden is in full bloom,
Und wenn in seinem Reich, and when on his land,
Den schönen Blumen gleich, like beautiful fl owers,
Auch Herzen feurig siegen. ardent hearts make conquests.
5. Aria
Wenn die Frühlingslüft e streichen When spring breezes blow
Und durch bunte Felder weh’n, and play across colorful fi elds,
Pfl egt auch Amor auszuschleichen, Love also sneaks out
Um nach seinem Schmuck zu seh’n, to witness his fi nest work,
Welcher, glaubt man, dieser ist, which people believe to be
Dass ein Herz das and’re küsst. when one heart kisses another.
Sung Text — Wedding Cantata
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6. RecitativeUnd dieses ist das Glücke, And this is happiness,
Dass durch ein hohes Gunstgeschicke that through the favor of fate
Zwei Seelen einen Schmuck erlanget, two souls acquire status
An dem viel Heil und Segen pranget. on which well-being and blessings shine.
7. AriaSich üben im Lieben, To be in love,
In Scherzen sich herzen feeling your heart’s delight,
Ist besser als Florens vergängliche Lust. is better than passing desire.
Hier quellen die Wellen, Here the emotions combine,
Hier lachen und wachen here the laughing and longing,
Die siegenden Palmen auf Lippen und Brust. the struggling touch of lips and breast.
8. RecitativeSo sei das Band der keuschen Liebe, So may the bond of pure love,
Verlobte Zwei, betrothed pair,
Von Unbestand des Wechsels frei! be free from the fickleness of change!
Kein jäher Fall May no sudden event
Noch Donnerknall nor thunderclap
Erschrecke die verliebten Triebe! disturb your ardent love!
9. Aria (Gavotte)Sehet in Zufriedenheit May you witness contentment
Tausend helle Wohlfahrtstage, for a thousand bright and happy days,
Dass bald in der Folgezeit so that soon, with the turning of seasons,
Eu’re Liebe Blumen trage! your love shall bear new offshoots!
(ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY ERIC SELLEN)
Wedding CantataC O N T I N U E D
CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
Sung Text — Wedding Cantata
About the Music
Music is an agreeable
harmony for the honor of
God and the permissible
delights of the soul.
—Johann Sebastian Bach
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47Severance Hall 2011-12 About the Music
T H I S S I N F O N I A I N B M I N O R comes from one of Bach’s sec-
ular cantatas, Non sa che sia dolore [“He Is Unacquainted with
Sorrow”]. Th e overall work is a setting of an Italian text that has
been described as “poor enough to be incomprehensible.” Th e
origin of the cantata is obscure; its manuscript (in an unknown
hand) dates from some years aft er Bach’s death. Th is has incited
strenuous debate, although that is not of much concern when
hearing only the spirited Sinfonia, the instrumental movement
that introduces the cantata.
Th is movement is for a solo fl ute with strings, in the man-
ner of the Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, with its famous
Badinerie movement. Th e violin writing is soloistic, too. Th e
movement is framed as a broad A-B-A, the main part return-
ing aft er a central section in the major key. Th e full cantata
keeps the fl ute relentlessly busy — so much so that it can be a
welcome rest to play the Sinfonia on its own.
Sinfonia in B minor, from Cantata BWV209composed circa 1720s-1730s
Sinfonia in D minor, from Cantata BWV42composed circa 1725
T H I S S I N F O N I A I N D M I N O R is the introduction to one
of Bach’s church cantatas, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats
[“On the Evening of the Very Same Sabbath”], composed for
the Sunday aft er Easter, April 8, 1725. It has also been plausibly
argued that the Sinfonia was recycled from a Serenata written
for the birthday of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen on De-
cember 10, 1718.
It is a substantial movement for two oboes, bassoon, and
strings. Th e exchanges between the three wind soloists and
the strings is highly engaging in Bach’s best manner. Like the
Sinfonia from Cantata 209, it is built as an A-B-A movement,
with an extensive and bewitching B section.
Movements like this, so little known, act as a timely re-
minder of the riches of the cantatas and of how constant was
the service of Bach’s genius.
—Hugh Macdonald © 2011
The Cleveland Orchestra is
presenting both of these Sin-
fonias for the fi rst time with
this weekend’s concerts.
At a Glance
born March 21, 1685Eisenach, Saxe-Eisenach, Germany
died July 28, 1750Leipzig
C O N C E R T C A L E N D A R
T H E C L E V E L A N D
48 The Cleveland Orchestra
F A L L S E A S O NThursday November 17 at 8:00 p.m.Friday November 18 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday November 19 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRATon Koopman, conductorTeresa Wakim, soprano
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH Cantata No. 202 (“Wedding”)
BACH Sinfonia from Cantata No. 209BACH Sinfonia from Cantata No. 42BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3
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Sunday November 20 at 3:00 p.m.CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH ORCHESTRAJames Feddeck, conductor
BRAHMS Academic Festival OvertureBACH Prelude and Fugue (“St. Anne”)
transcribed by Arnold Schoenberg DVORÁK Symphony No. 8
Friday November 25 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday November 26 at 8:00 p.m.Sunday November 27 at 3:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAFabio Luisi, conductorJonathan Biss, piano
R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien Concert Sponsor: PNC
Friday December 2 at 7:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAJames Feddeck, conductor
FAMILY CONCERT: Scenes from The Nutcracker
The Joffrey Academy Trainees join The Cleveland Orchestra to capture the magic of the holiday season in scenes from Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker ballet.
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Saturday December 3 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAJames Feddeck, conductorwith Randy Newman
CELEBRITY CONCERT: Randy NewmanAcademy Award-winning songwriter Randy Newman joins the Orchestra for one special evening to perform such chart-top-pers as “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People.” Plus music from Toy Story, The Natural, Avalon, and more!
Concert Calendar48 The Cleveland Orchestra
Thursday December 8 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday December 10 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAMarin Alsop, conductorPeter Otto, violinJoela Jones, organ
BARBER Symphony No. 1 BERNSTEIN Serenade (for violin) SAINT-SAËNS “Organ” Symphony Concert Sponsor: Medical Mutual of Ohio
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Sunday December 11 at 3:00 p.m.Friday December 16 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday December 17 at 3:00 p.m.Saturday December 17 at 8:00 p.m.Sunday December 18 at 3:00 p.m.Sunday December 18 at 7:00 p.m.Thursday December 22 at 8:00 p.m.Friday December 23 at 3:00 p.m.Friday December 23 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRARobert Porco, conductorCleveland Orchestra Chorusand guest choruses
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHRISTMAS CONCERTS
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Thursday December 15 at 8:00 p.m.Burning River Brass
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W I N T E R S E A S O NThursday January 12 at 8:00 p.m.Friday January 13 at 11:00 a.m.Saturday January 14 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAFranz Welser-Möst, conductorLisa Batiashvili, violin
BRAHMS Violin Concerto SAARIAHO Orion
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Sunday January 15 at 7:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAChelsea Tipton, conductorCentral State University ChorusMartin Luther King Jr. Celebration Chorus
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION CONCERT The Cleveland Orchestra’s 32nd annual concert cele-
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Thursday January 19 at 8:00 p.m.Friday January 20 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday January 21 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAFranz Welser-Möst, conductorYefi m Bronfman, piano
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 SHEPHERD Wanderlust
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THE COLORS OF CHRISTMASTuesday December 20 at 8 p.m.Wednesday December 21 at 8 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAHerman Jackson, conductorwith vocalists Peabo Bryson Jennifer Holliday Lea Salonga Ben Vereen
One of the most festive and memorable
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Concert Calendar
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T H I S G R E AT WO R K is traditionally designated as No. 3 of the
four orchestral suites. We call them “Suites,” but Bach called
them “Ouvertures,” which is confusing when the same title also
denotes the fi rst movement. At all events, the movements of
these orchestral suites are parallel to those of his keyboard suites
(English Suites, French Suites, Partitas) in containing a series
of French dances always constructed in two balanced halves,
each of which is repeated.
Th is work is thought to have originated in the 1730s, when
Bach was pulling back from his commitment to music for the
church and giving more of his precious time to running con-
certs in the city of Leipzig. Some of these concerts were pro-
moted by purveyors of the latest craze, coff ee. Bach’s group
was a voluntary association of professional musicians and uni-
versity students, who gave regular weekly concerts with public
admission. Th is alone would have been a heavy commitment,
for Bach remained in charge of the music at St. Th omas’s and
a second church, St. Nicolai. But at least by this time he had
a large reserve of cantatas and other music to draw on, so that
he could devote his composing time to creating instrumental
music.
Th is D-major Suite makes brilliant use of three trumpets,
in addition to the two oboes and drums that complement the
usual strings. Trumpet playing was a highly specialized art in
Bach’s time (as it still is); it used to be thought that Bach’s trum-
peters died young, a belief that probably failed to recognize that
life expectancy was not high for any adults at that time. None-
theless, at least there were enough good trumpeters in Leipzig
to allow Bach to write for them in this spectacular fashion.
Th e opening movement is in the manner of a French over-
ture, with dotted rhythms and little scalic upbeats, leading di-
rectly into a swift fugue led off by oboes and violins. Th e whole
process is then repeated. Th e second-movement Air is one of
Bach’s most celebrated tunes — although while basking in the
superbly craft ed melody we may not notice that the harmony
(with strings alone) is full of tension and daring.
Th e Gavotte brings back the wind players in a strongly
Frenchifi ed dance movement structured in the A–B–A pattern.
Th e lively Bourrée is full of interjections from the trumpets and
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068composed circa 1720s-1730s
When Bach wrote each of
his four orchestral suites
has been subject to intense
debate over the years. Dates
for Suite No. 3 have ranged
from as early as 1720 to the
late 1730s. Nothing is known
of its early performance
history.
This suite runs about
20 minutes in performance.
Bach scored it for an orches-
tra of 2 oboes, bassoon, 3
trumpets, timpani, strings,
and continuo (harpsichord
on the bass line plus lower
strings possibly reinforced
with bassoon).
The Cleveland Orchestra
has presented music from
this suite on a variety of
occasions and concerts since
1919, with the second move-
ment “Air” used with some
regularity as a memorial
piece (including a perfor-
mance without conductor
at the Memorial Concert for
George Szell in August 1970).
The complete suite was fi rst
presented by the Orchestra
in 1947 and most recently in
April 2007 at Severance Hall
performances conducted by
Franz Welser-Möst.
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drums, as though they were not being allowed to play their full
part. Th e Suite closes with a Gigue, its melody typical of Bach in
ranging high and low and darting about in unexpected rhythms.
Th e major key and the sense of solid celebration make this one
of Bach’s happiest works and a fi tting conclusion to any concert
that reminds us of his incomparable genius.
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Ton KoopmanDutch conductor Ton Koopman is founding music director and conductor of the
Amster dam Baroque Orchestra and Choir. Last season, he began a three-year re-
lationship as artist-in-residence with Th e Cleveland Orchestra, during which he
leads two weeks of concerts each season. Th e position is made possible through
the Malcolm E. Kenney Artist-in-Residence Fund, created through a generous en-
dowment gift to Th e Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Koopman
fi rst conducted the Orchestra in February 2008.
Born in Zwolle, Th e Netherlands, in 1944, Ton Koop-
man has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with authentic in-
struments informed through a performance style based on
scholarship. Aft er a classical education, he studied organ,
harpsichord, and musicology in Amsterdam and received
the Prix d’excellence for both instruments.
During his 45-year career, Mr. Koopman has appeared
at the world’s most important concert halls and festivals,
and has performed on many of Europe’s prestigious his-
torical instruments. He founded the Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra in 1979, and the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in
1992. As harpsichord player and conductor with these en-
sembles, he has been a regular guest across Europe and the United States.
Mr. Koopman has appeared as a guest conductor with the Berlin Philhar-
monic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York
Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, and
the Vienna Symphony, among others.
As soloist, accompanist, and conductor, Ton Koopman has recorded for
DGG, Erato, Philips, Sony, and Teldec. His albums with the Amsterdam Ba-
roque Orchestra have received the Diapason d’Or, Gramophone Award, Stern
des Monats-Fono Forum, and two Edison Awards. Between 1994 and 2004, Mr.
Koopman led the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir in recordings of
Bach’s secular and sacred cantatas; these recordings were awarded the 2008 BBC
Award, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis Echo Klassik, and the Prix Hector Berlioz.
Ton Koopman is co-editor of three books with Christoph Wolff , and is ed-
iting the complete Handel organ concertos for Breitkopf & Härtel. He leads the
harpsichord class at the Royal Conservatory in Th e Hague, is a professor at the
University of Leiden, and is an honorary member of London’s Royal Academy of
Music. He also serves as artistic director of the French Festival Itinéraire Baroque,
and as president of the International Dietrich Buxtehude Society.
Mr. Koopman is married to harpsichordist Tini Mathot, and the two fre-
quently perform together.
Conductor
Jewish Federation
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Teresa WakimTeresa Wakim hails from New England, enjoying a performance career in Boston
and internationally. She performs and records music from the Renaissance to the
newly-composed, but is perhaps best known for her singing of Baroque music. She
made her Cleveland Orchestra debut earlier this year in August during the 2011
Blossom Festival and is making her Severance Hall debut with
this weekend’s concerts. Honored as a Lorraine Hunt Lieber-
son Fellow for the 2011-2012 season by Emmanuel Music, Ms.
Wakim recently won fi rst prize in the Internationaler Solis-
tenwettbewerb für Alte Musik in Austria. She made her Eu-
ropean solo debut in April 2011 with the Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra.
In the realm of new music, Teresa Wakim has per-
formed in the premieres of Paul Crabtree’s Sedebat Mater,
Robert Stern’s Shofar, Th omas Jennefelt’s Villarosa Sequenc-
es, and Steven Jobe’s Joan of Arc. Her operatic repertoire
also includes roles in Campra’s L’Europe galante, Conradi’s
Ariadne, Handel’s Alcina, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Ms. Wakim is featured on two Grammy-nominated
recordings of Lully operas with the Boston Early Music Festival, Th ésée and Psyché.
Recent and future engagements include the role of Papagena in Th e Magic Flute
with Apollo’s Fire and a title role in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Boston
Early Music Festival at the American Handel Festival. She appears regularly with
Boston Baroque, Boston Cecilia, Boston Choral Ensemble, Coro Allegro, Master-
works Chorale, Seraphic Fire, and Tragicomedia, and is a frequent soloist at the
Connecticut Early Music Festival.
Ms. Wakim holds a bachelor’s degree in both vocal performance and music
history from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Lor-
raine Manz, and completed a master’s degree in historical performance at Boston
University’s College of Fine Arts in the studio of Penelope Bitzas.
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When former members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra fl ocked
back to town last spring for a special Alumni Concert and reunion weekend
celebrating the ensemble’s 25th season, it was clear that this ensemble does
far more than develop musicianship.
Sixty former members of the Youth Orchestra — including fi ve mem-
bers from its inaugural season — came from as far as Portland, Oregon, and
Seattle, Washington. Reunited, they remembered the hard work together
and the quality of the resulting concerts. And they spoke of what a tremen-
dous diff erence the Youth Orchestra made in shaping their lives.
Bass player Laura Preslan joined in the inaugural season, 1986, and
played through 1990. Today she lives in Seattle, where she is a sales and
marketing executive for Microsoft . “My fi rst lessons in leadership came from
watching music director Jahja Ling on the podium,’’ Preslan says, noting that
when they played the Mozart Oboe Concerto, she once miscounted and
came in early, guns blazing, with a loud entrance. Th e musicians in the or-
chestra burst out laughing, and she was mortifi ed, but Ling stopped them.
“She’s right,’’ he said. “If you’re going to make a mistake, make it loud. I’d rath-
er have you come-in in the wrong place than not come-in at all.’’
Today, Preslan says, “Th at’s where I learned about leadership and how
to lead teams, and how it’s better to take action versus take no action. I carry
that lesson with me to this day, 25 years later.”
Th e Youth Orchestra’s fi rst concert of the season is on Sunday aft ernoon,
November 20, featuring music of Brahms, Bach, and Dvořák. Experience the
quality of tomorrow yourself, at Severance Hall. For tickets (at just $12),
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In January 2012, Th e Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst embark
on a three-week program of presenting the three solo concertos of Johannes
Brahms at Severance Hall, with violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Yefi m
Bronfman. Th e mini-festival — featuring the Violin Concerto and both
Piano Concertos — reunites Welser-Möst and Bronfman, who performed to-
gether in Franz’s debut here as a guest conductor in 1993. More recently, they
performed together last year in a special outdoor concert with the Vienna
Philharmonic that was televised internationally and released on the Deutsche
Grammophon label.
“I’m really overwhelmed with excitement to play with Franz and
Th e Cleveland Orchestra,” says Bronfman. “Franz has always been a great
conductor, but he has also become such a great personality, with so much
knowledge. He has grown into a major fi gure in music.” Playing the Brahms
concertos is probably among “the greatest experiences I’ve ever had,” he con-
tinues. “Especially playing the second one, which is so majestic. Th ere is
Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, but maybe Brahms Two is also an Emperor.”
“From the very fi rst note,” says Bronfman, “you can tell this is a jour-
ney, that this requires a collaboration between the soloist and the orchestra
at all times. It’s always an exchange of ideas, back and forth. And the cello
solo is arguably the most famous in the repertoire. I cannot think of a better
orchestra than Cleveland to play with, for the chamber music character of the
Second Concerto.’’
For tickets, visit clevelandorchestra.com.
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62 The Cleveland Orchestra
Generous contributions to the endowment have been made to support specifi c artistic initiatives,
ensembles, educational programming and performances, facilities maintenance costs, touring and
residencies, and more. Th ese funding opportunities currently represent new gift s of $250,000 or more.
For information about making your own endowment gift to the Orchestra, please call (216) 231-7549.
Endowed Funds funds established as of June 2011
ARTISTIC endowed funds support a variety of programmatic initiatives ranging from guest
artists and radio broadcasts to the all-volunteer Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
EDUCATION endowed funds help support programs that deepen connections to symphonic
music at every age and stage of life, including training, performances, and classroom resources
for thousands of students and adults each year.
American Conductors FundDouglas Peace HandysideHolsey Gates Handyside
Artist-in-ResidenceMalcolm E. Kenney
Artistic CollaborationThe Keithley Fund
Young ComposersJan R. and Daniel R. Lewis
Friday Morning ConcertsMary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Foundation
International TouringFrances Elizabeth Wilkinson
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Jerome and Shirley GroverMeacham Hitchcock and Family
Concert PreviewsDorothy Humel Hovorka
Guest ArtistThe Eleanore T. and Joseph E. Adams FundMrs. Warren H. CorningThe Gerhard FoundationMargaret R. Griffi ths TrustThe Virginia M. and Newman T. Halvorson FundThe Hershey FoundationThe Humel Hovorka FundKulas FoundationThe Payne FundElizabeth Dorothy RobsonDr. and Mrs. Sam I. SatoThe Julia Severance Millikin FundThe Sherwick FundMr. and Mrs. Michael SherwinSterling A. SpauldingMr. and Mrs. James P. StorerMrs. Paul D. Wurzburger
Radio BroadcastsRobert and Jean Conrad
UnrestrictedJohn P. Bergren and Sarah S. Evans
EducationAnonymous, in memory of Georg SoltiHope and Stanley I. AdelsteinKathleen L. BarberIsabelle and Ronald BrownDr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. BrownAlice B. Cull MemorialFrank and Margaret HyncikJunior Committee of The Cleveland OrchestraMr. and Mrs. David T. Morgenthaler
Education Concerts WeekThe Max Ratner Education Fund, given by the Ratner, Miller, and Shafran
families and by Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
Education ProgramsThe William N. Skirball Endowment
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra The George Gund FoundationChristine Gitlin Miles, in honor of Jahja LingJules and Ruth Vinney Touring Fund
Classroom ResourcesCharles and Marguerite C. Galanie
Musical RainbowsPysht Fund
Endowed Funds
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SEVERANCE HALL endowed funds support performance initiatives for the Orchestra’s
winter season in Cleveland and maintenance of Severance Hall:
BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER and BLOSSOM FESTIVAL endowed funds support the
Orchestra’s summer performances and maintenance of Blossom Music Center.
Severance Guest ConductorRoger and Anne ClappJames and Donna Reid
Keyboard MaintenanceWilliam R. DewThe Frederick W. and Janet P. Dorn FoundationMr. and Mrs. Richard A. ManuelVincent K. and Edith H. Smith Memorial Trust
OrganD. Robert and Kathleen L. BarberArlene and Arthur HoldenKulas FoundationDescendants of D.Z. NortonOglebay Norton Foundation
Severance Hall PreservationSeverance family and friends
Blossom Festival Guest ArtistDr. and Mrs. Murray M. BettThe Hershey FoundationThe Payne FundMr. and Mrs. William C. Zekan
Blossom Festival Family ConcertsDavid E. and Jane J. Griffi ths
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CENTER FOR FUTURE AUDIENCES — Announced in October 2010, the Center for Future
Audiences will transform the way Th e Cleveland Orchestra attracts and welcomes audiences to
Severance Hall, throughout Northeast Ohio, and around the world. Th e Center was created with
a generous naming lead gift of $20 million from the Maltz Family Foundation providing one-
third of the $60 million endowment that will eventually help fully fund these activities.
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64 The Cleveland OrchestraLegacy & Planned Giving
Lois A. Aaron
Leonard Abrams
Shuree Abrams*
Gay Cull Addicott
Stanley and Hope Adelstein
Sylvia K. Adler
Gerald O. Allen
Norman and Marjorie* Allison
George N. Aronoff
Herbert Ascherman, Jr.
Jack and Darby Ashelman
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Baker
Ruth Balombin*
Mrs. Louis W. Barany*
D. Robert* and Kathleen L. Barber
Jack Barnhart
Margaret B. and Henry T.* Barratt
Norma E. Battes
Rev. Thomas T. Baumgardner
and Dr. Joan Baumgardner
Fred G. and Mary W. Behm
Dr. Ronald and Diane Bell
Bob Bellamy
Joseph P. Bennett
Ila M. Berry
Howard R. and Barbara Kaye Besser
Dr.* and Mrs. Murray M. Bett
Dr. Marie Bielefeld
Raymond J. Billy
Dr.* and Mrs.* Harold B. Bilsky
Robert E. and Jean Bingham
Claudia Bjerre
Mr. William P. Blair III
Mrs. Flora Blumenthal
Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny
and Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bolton
Kathryn Bondy*
Loretta and Jerome* Borstein
Mr. and Mrs.* Otis H. Bowden II
Ruth Turvy Bowman
Drs. Christopher P. Brandt
and Beth Brandt Sersig
Mr. D. McGregor Brandt, Jr.
David and Denise Brewster
Richard F. Brezic*
Robert W. Briggs
Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown
and Dr. Glenn R. Brown
Ronald and Isabelle Brown*
Mr. and Mrs. Clark E. Bruner*
Harvey and Penelope* Buchanan
Rita W. Buchanan*
Joan and Gene Buehler
Gretchen L. Burmeister
Stanley and Honnie Busch
Milan and Jeanne* Busta
Mrs. Noah L. Butkin*
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Butler
Minna S. Buxbaum*
Gregory and Karen Cada
Roberta R. Calderwood*
Jean S. Calhoun
Harry and Marjorie M. Carlson
Janice L. Carlson
Dr. and Mrs. Roland D. Carlson
Barbara A. Chambers, D.Ed.
Ellen Wade Chinn*
NancyBell Coe
Kenneth S. and Deborah G. Cohen
Ralph M. and Mardy R. Cohen
Victor J. and Ellen E. Cohn
Robert and Jean* Conrad
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Conway
James P.* and Catherine E.* Conway
Rudolph R. Cook
The Honorable Colleen Conway Cooney
John D. and Mary D.* Corry
Dr.* and Mrs. Frederick S. Cross
Dr. William S. Cumming*
In Memory of Walter C.
and Marion J. Curtis
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Cushwa
Howard Cutson
Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Dangler
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Danzinger
Barbara Ann Davis
Carol J. Davis
Charles and Mary Ann Davis
William E. and Gloria P. Dean, Jr.
Mary Kay DeGrandis
and Edward J. Donnelly
Neeltje-Anne DeKoster
Carolyn L. Dessin
William R. Dew
Mrs. Armand J. DiLellio
James A. Dingus, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Distad
Maureen A. Doerner
and Geoff rey T. White
Henry and Mary Doll
Gerald and Ruth Dombcik
Mr.* and Mrs. Roland W. Donnem
Nancy E. and Richard M. Dotson
Mrs. John Drollinger
Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau
George* and Becky Dunn
Warren and Zoann Dusenbury*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Duvin
Paul and Peggy Edenburn
Robert and Anne Eiben
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Eich, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Elias*
Roger B. Ellsworth
Oliver and Mary Emerson
Lois Marsh Epp
Patricia Esposito
Margaret S. Estill
Dr. Wilma McVey Evans*
C. Gordon and Kathleen A.* Ewers
Patricia J. Factor
Susan L. Faulder*
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Fennell*
Mrs. Mildred Fiening
Gloria and Irving B. Fine
Jules and Lena Flock*
Joan Alice Ford
Dr. and Mrs.* William E. Forsythe
Mr.* and Mrs. Ralph E. Fountain
Gil and Elle Frey
Arthur and Deanna Friedman
Mr.* and Mrs. Edward H. Frost
Dawn Full
Henry S. Fusner
Stephen and Nancy Gage
Charles and Marguerite C. Galanie*
Barbara and Peter Galvin
Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Garfunkel
Donald* and Lois Gaynor
Barbara P. Geismer
Albert I. and Norma C. Geller
Carl E. Gennett*
John H.* and Ellen P. Gerber
Frank and Louise Gerlak
Dr. James E. Gibbs
In Memory of Roger N. Giff ord
Dr. Anita P. Gilger*
Th e Heritage Society honors donors who support the Orchestra through their
wills, life income gift s, or other types of deferred giving. Th e following listing of
members is current as of October 2011. Th e Cleveland Orchestra and Musical
Arts Association thank those members below in bold who have declared to us
their specifi c estate intentions. For more infor ma tion, please call Jim Kozel, Direc-
tor of Legacy Giving at (216) 231-7549.
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S. Bradley Gillaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ginn
Fred and Holly Glock
Ronald* and Carol Godes
William H. Goff
Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Goodman
John and Ann Gosky
Mrs. Joseph B. Govan*
Elaine Harris Green
Richard C. Gridley
Nancy Griffi th
David E.* and Jane J. Griffi ths
David G. Griffi ths*
Ms. Hetty Griffi ths
Margaret R. Griffi ths*
Bev and Bob Grimm
Judd and Zetta Gross*
Candy and Brent Grover
Mrs. Jerome E. Gover*
Thomas J.* and Judith Fay Gruber
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Gunning
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Gunton
Joseph E. Guttman*
Mrs. John A Hadden Jr.
Richard and Mary Louise Hahn
James J. Hamilton
Kathleen E. Hancock
Douglas Peace Handyside*
Holsey Gates Handyside
Norman C. and Donna L. Harbert
Mary Jane Hartwell
William L.* and Lucille L. Hassler
Peter and Gloria Hastings*
Mrs. Henry Hatch (Robin Hitchcock)
Virginia and George Havens
Gary D. Helgesen
Clyde J. Henry, Jr.
Ms. M. Diane Henry
Wayne and Prudence Heritage
Rice Hershey*
T. K. and Faye A. Heston
Gretchen L. Hickok
Mr. and Mrs.* Daniel R. High
Edwin R. and Mary C. Hill*
Ruth Hirshman-von Baeyer*
Mr.* and Mrs. D. Craig Hitchcock
Goldie Grace Hoff man*
Mary V. Hoff man
Feite F. Hofman MD
Mrs. Barthold M. Holdstein
Leonard* and Lee Ann Holstein
David and Nancy Hooker
Gertrude S. Hornung*
Patience Cameron Hoskins
Elizabeth Hosmer
Dorothy Humel Hovorka
Dr. Randal N. Huff
Adria D. Humphreys*
Ann E. Humphreys
and Jayne E. Sisson
Karen S. Hunt
Ruth F. Ihde
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. Ingersoll
Pamela and Scott Isquick
Mr. and Mrs.* Cliff ord J. Isroff
Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Jack, Jr.
Carol S. Jacobs
Milton* and Jodith Janes
Jerry and Martha Jarrett
Merritt Johnquest
E. Anne Johnson
Nancy Kurfess Johnson, M.D.
Paul and Lucille Jones*
Mrs. R. Stanley Jones*
William R. Joseph
David and Gloria Kahan
Julian and Etole Kahan
Drs. Julian* and Aileen Kassen
Milton and Donna* Katz
Patricia and Walter* Kelley
Bruce and Eleanor Kendrick
Malcolm E. Kenney
Nancy H. Kiefer
Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball*
Mr. Kevin F. Kirkpatrick
Mrs. Virginia Kirkpatrick
James and Gay Kitson
Julian H. and Emily W. Klein*
Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein*
Thea Klestadt*
Gilles and Malvina Klopman
Paul and Cynthia Klug
Martha D. Knight
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Koch
Dr. Vilma L. Kohn
Elizabeth Davis Kondorossy*
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Kotapish, Sr.
LaVeda Kovar*
Margery A. Kowalski
Bruce G. Kriete*
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory G. Kruszka
Thomas and Barbara Kuby
Eleanor and Stephen Kushnick
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre
James I. Lader
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Lambros
Dr. Joan P. Lambros*
Mrs. Carolyn Lampl
Marjorie M. Lamport
Louis Lane
Charles and Josephine Robson
Leamy Fund
Teela C. Lelyveld
Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Lerch
Gerda Levine
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Levine
Bracy E. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Liederbach
Ruth S. Link
Dr. and Mrs. William K. Littman
Jeff and Maggie Love
Dr. Alan and Mrs. Min Cha Lubin
Ann B. and Robert R. Lucas*
Kate Lunsford
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Lynch*
Patricia MacDonald
Alex and Carol Machaskee
Jerry Maddox
Carol and Steve* Madsen
Alice D. Malone
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Malpass, Jr.
Lucille Harris Mann
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manuel
Clement P. Marion
Mr. Wilbur J. Markstrom
Dr. and Mrs. Sanford E. Marovitz
David C. and Elizabeth F. Marsh
Duane and Joan* Marsh
Florence Marsh, Ph.D.*
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Martincic
Kathryn A. Mates
Dr. Lee Maxwell
and Michael M. Prunty
Alexander and Marianna McAfee
Nancy B. McCormack
Mr. William C. McCoy
Marguerite H. McGrath*
Dorothy R. McLean
Jim* and Alice Mecredy
James and Viginia Meil
Mr. and Mrs.* Robert F. Meyerson
Brenda Clark Mikota
Christine Gitlin Miles
Chuck and Chris Miller
Edith and Ted* Miller
Leo Minter, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mitchell
Robert L. Moncrief
Beryl and Irv Moore
Ann Jones Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Morgan*
George and Carole Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Morris
Mr. and Mrs.* Donald W. Morrison
Joan R. Mortimer, PhD
Florence B. Moss
Susan B. Murphy
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde L. Nash, Jr.
David and Judith Newell
Russell H. Nyland*
Charles K. Laszlo
and Maureen O’Neill-Laszlo
Katherine T. O’Neill
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Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ong
Aurel Fowler-Ostendorf*
R. Neil Fisher and Ronald J. Parks
Nancy and W. Stuver Parry
Mrs. John G. Pegg*
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Peniero
Mary Charlotte Peters
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pfouts*
Janet K. Phillips*
Florence KZ Pollack
Julia and Larry Pollock
Victor and Louise Preslan*
Mrs. Robert E. Price*
Lois S.* and Stanley M. Proctor
Mr. David C. Prugh
Leonard and Heddy Rabe
M. Neal Rains
Mr. George B. Ramsayer
Joe L. and Alice* Randles
Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin
Mrs. Theodore H. Rautenberg*
Dr. Sandford Reichart*
James and Donna Reid
Mrs. Hyatt Reitman*
Mrs. Louise Nash Robbins*
Dr. Larry J.B.* and Barbara S. Robinson
Dwight W. Robinson
Margaret B. Babyak*
and Phillip J. Roscoe
Dr. Eugene and Mrs. Jacqueline Ross
Helen Weil Ross*
Marjorie A. Rott
Dr. and Mrs. Howard E. Rowen
Florence Brewster Rutter
Mr. James L. Ryhal, Jr.
Renee Sabreen
Marjorie Bell Sachs
Vernon Sackman
Sue Sahli
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saks
Larry J. Santon
Stanford and Jean B. Sarlson
Sanford Saul Family
James Dalton Saunders
Patricia J. Sawvel
Ray and Kit Sawyer
Richard Saxton*
Alice R. Sayre
In Memory of Hyman
and Becky Schandler
Robert Scherrer
Sandra J. Schlub
Ms. Marian Schluembach
Robert and Betty Schmiermund
Mr.* and Mrs. Richard M. Schneider
Lynn A. Schreiber*
Jeanette L. Schroeder
Mr. Frank Schultz
Roslyn S. and Ralph M. Seed
Nancy F. Seeley
Edward Seely
Oliver E. and Meredith M. Seikel
Russell Seitz*
Eric Sellen
Andrea E. Senich
Thomas and Ann Sepúlveda
Elsa Shackleton*
B. Kathleen Shamp
Jill Semko Shane
David Shank
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Shapiro
Norine W. Sharp
Norma Gudin Shaw
Elizabeth Carroll Shearer
Dr. and Mrs. William C. Sheldon
Frank * and Mary Ann Sheranko
Kim Sherwin
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sherwin
Reverend and Mrs. Malcolm K. Shields
Rosalyn and George Sievila
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Simon
Dr.* and Mrs. John A. Sims
Naomi G. and Edwin Z. Singer
Lauretta Sinkosky
Ellen J. Skinner
Ralph* and Phyllis Skufca
Janet Hickok Slade
Alden D. and Ellen D.* Smith
Mr.* and Mrs. Ward Smith
M. Isabel Smith*
Margaret C. Smith*
Nathan Snader*
Sterling A.* and Verdabelle Spaulding
Sue Starrett and Jerry Smith
Lois and Tom Stauff er
Willard D. Steck*
Merle Stern
Dr. Myron Bud and Helene* Stern
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Stickney
Nora and Harrison Stine*
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Stone
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Storer
Ralph E. and Barbara N. String
The Irving Sunshine Family
Vernette M. Super*
Mr.* and Mrs. Herbert J. Swanson
In Memory of Marjory Swartzbaugh
Lewis Swingley*
Lorraine S. Szabo
Norman V. Tagliaferri
Susan* and Andrew Talton
Frank E. Taplin, Jr.*
Charles H. Teare and Cliff ord K.* Kern
Mr. Ronald E. Teare
Pauline Thesmacher*
Dr. and Mrs. Friedrich Thiel
Mrs. William D. Tibbetts*
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Toneff
Alleyne C. Toppin
Janice and Leonard Tower
Dorothy Ann Turick
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Urban
Robert and Marti Vagi
Robert A. Valente
J. Paxton Van Sweringen
Mary Louise and Don VanDyke
Elliot Veinerman*
Nicholas J. Velloney*
Steven Vivarronda
Hon. William F.B. Vodrey
Pat and Walt* Wahlen
Mrs. Clare R. Walker
John and Deborah Warner
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Warren
Charles D. Waters*
Etta Ruth Weigl
Lucile Weingartner
Eunice Podis Weiskopf*
Max W. Wendel
William Wendling
and Lynne Woodman
Marilyn J. White
Alan H. and Marilyn M. Wilde
Elizabeth L. Wilkinson*
Helen Sue* and Meredith Williams
Carter and Genevieve Wilmot
Miriam L. and Tyrus W.* Wilson
Mr. Milton Wolfson*
and Mrs. Miriam Shuler-Wolfson
Nancy L. Wolpe
Mrs. Alfred C. Woodcock
Mr. and Mrs.* Donald Woodcock
Henry F. and Darlene K. Woodruff
Marilyn L. Wozniak
Nancy R. Wurzel
Michael and Diane Wyatt
Mary Yee
Emma Jane Yoho, M.D
Libby M. Yunger
Dr. Norman Zaworski
William L. and Joan H. Ziegler
Carmela Catalano Zoltoski
Roy J. Zook*
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H E R I T A G E S O C I E T YBe forever a part of what the world is talking about!
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Meet Nancy Dotson Cleveland Orchestra Heritage Society member, former State Chair of the Blossom Women’s Committee, and Heritage Society radio ambassador on WCLV
When did you begin attending Cleveland Orchestra concerts?Dick and I have lived in the area for 33 years and have
been attending concerts for most of those years.
What is your favorite concert experiencewith The Cleveland Orchestra?
Without a doubt, we will never forget the concert at Sever-
ance Hall several years ago with Sir Colin Davis and Mit-
suko Uchida and the Mozart Piano Concerto. Sitting in the
dress circle and seeing the interaction of these two icons and
Th e Cleveland Orchestra is something I will never forget.
What is your favorite memory of The Cleve-land Orchestra or Blossom Festival?
Dick and I have so many wonderful memories of Blossom
and Severance Hall. Living in Hudson and only 20 minutes from Blossom,
our summer revolves around the lyrical weekend evenings at Blossom. Sitting on
the Lawn with a glass of wine under the stars is our idea of a perfect date! Meeting
various members of Th e Cleveland Orchestra at the summer Gourmet Matinee
Luncheons or the Orchestra Picnic sponsored by the Blossom Women’s Committee
have also been special treats.
What reason do you suggest when extending an invitation to join the Heritage Society?
It is a very special privilege to have Th e Cleveland Orchestra so readily accessible
and convenient to attend. It is for these reasons that we made a decision to include
the Orchestra in our estate planning several years ago. Leaving a legacy for future
generations to enjoy this music and for the musicians to carry on the music is some-
thing we are happy we can do.
For information on membership in the Heritage Society,
contact Jim Kozel, Director of Legacy and Planned Giving,
by calling 216-231-7549 or via email at [email protected]
or go to clevelandorchestra.com and click on Support, then Heritage Society
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School buses delivering students to Severance Hall. More than four million schoolchildren have been introduced to symphonic music in nine decades of Cleveland Orchestra education concerts.
Education & Community
The Cleveland Orchestra: Serving the Community Th e Cleveland Orchestra’s Education and Community programs provide shared musical experiences that engage, inspire, support, and deepen connections with audiences throughout Northeast Ohio
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA has a long and proud history of sharing
the value and joy of music with citizens throughout Northeast Ohio. Education
and community programs date to the Orchestra’s founding in 1918 and have re-
mained a central focus of the ensemble’s actitivities for over ninety years. Today,
with the support of many generous individual, foundation, corporate, and govern-
mental funding partners, the Orchestra’s educational and community programs
reach more than 70,000 young people and adults annually, helping to foster a love
of music and a lifetime of involvement with the musical arts. On these pages, we
share photo graphs from a sampling of these many programs. For additional infor-
mation about these and other programs, visit us at clevelandorchestra.com or
contact the Education & Community Programs Offi ce by calling (216) 231-7355.
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Music Study Groups provide a way of exploring the Orchestra’s music in depth. These professionally led classes meet weekly to explore the music being played each week and the stories behind the composers’ lives.
The Cleveland Orchestra helps celebrate the seasons and special events throughout the year. On October 30, the season’s fi rst Family Concert features the second annual “Halloween Spookatcular!” including a special audience costume contest.
A Family Concert featuring Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite brought audiences up close for a thrilling performance by Academy Trainees of the Joff rey Ballet and performers from the Cleveland School of Dance. The Joff rey Academy returns in December to Severance Hall for the season’s second Family Concert, “Scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.”
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More than 1,000 talented young musicians have performed as members of the Cleve- land Orchestra Youth Orchestra in the 25 years since its founding in 1986.
Cleveland Orchestra clarinetist Robert Woolfrey leads a Learning Through Music program at H. Barbara Booker School in Cleveland.
The Cleveland Orchestra is creating “Musical Neigh- borhoods” in Cleveland preschools as part of PNC Grow Up Great, using music to support pre-literacy and school readiness skills.
T H A N K Y O UThe Cleveland Orchestra’s Education programs are
made possible by many generous individuals,foundations, and corporations, including:
The Abington FoundationThe Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation
Chubb Group of Insurance CompaniesCleveland Clinic
The Cleveland FoundationConn-Selmer, Inc.
Dominion FoundationThe Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation
Giant EagleMuna & Basem Hishmeh FoundationMartha Holden Jennings Foundation
JPMorgan Chase FoundationThe Laub Foundation
The Lincoln Electric FoundationThe Lubrizol Corporation
The Nord Family FoundationOhio Arts CouncilOhio Savings Bank
PNCThe Reinberger Foundation
Albert G. & Olive H. Schlink FoundationThe Sherwin-Williams Foundation
The South Waite FoundationSurdna Foundation
Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank TrustThe Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation
Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra
O R C H E S T R A
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11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A . C O M
AT SEVERANCE HALLCONCERT DINING AND CONCESSION SERVICE Severance Restaurant at Severance Hall is open for concert dining. For reservations, call (216) 231-7373, or click on the reservations link at clevelandorchestra.com Concert concession service of beverages and light refreshments is available before most concerts and at intermissions in the Smith Lobby on the street level, in the Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer, and in the Dress Circle Lobby.
FREE PUBLIC TOURS Free public tours of Severance Hall are offered on select Sundays during the year. Free public tours of Severance Hall are being offered this fall on October 10 and November 28. For additional in-formation or to book for one of these tours, please call the Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Offi ce at (216) 231-1111. Private tours can be arranged for a fee by calling (216) 231-7421.
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA STORE A wide variety of items relating to The Cleve-land Orchestra — including logo apparel, compact disc recordings, and gifts — are available for pur-chase at the Cleveland Orchestra Store before and after concerts and during intermission. The Store is also open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cleveland Orchestra subscribers receive a 10% discount on most items purchased. Call (216) 231-7478 for more information, or visit the Store online at clevelandorchestra.com
ATM — Automated Teller Machine For our patrons’ convenience, an ATM is located in the Lerner Lobby of Severance Hall, on the ground fl oor across from the Cleveland Orchestra Store.
QUESTIONS If you have any questions, please ask an usher or a staff member, or call (216) 231-7300 during regular weekday business hours, or email to [email protected]
RENTAL OPPORTUNITIESSeverance Hall, a Cleveland landmark and home of the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra, is the perfect location for business meetings and confer-ences, pre- or post-concert dinners and receptions, weddings, and social events. Exclusive catering provided by Sammy’s. Premium dates are available. Call the Facility Sales Offi ce at (216) 231-7420 or email to [email protected]
BEFORE THE CONCERTGARAGE PARKING AND PATRON ACCESS Parking can be purchased for $10 per vehicle when space in the Campus Center Garage permits. However, the garage often fi lls up well before concert time; only ticket holders who purchase pre-paid parking passes are ensured a parking space. Overfl ow parking is available in CWRU Lot 1 off Eu-clid Avenue, across from Severance Hall; University Circle Lot 13A on Adelbert Road; and the Cleveland Botanical Garden. Pre-paid parking for the Campus Center Ga-rage can be purchased in advance through the Tick-et Offi ce for $14 per concert. This pre-paid parking ensures you a parking space, but availability of pre-paid parking passes is limited. To order pre-paid parking, call the Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Offi ce at (216) 231-1111.
FRIDAY MATINEE PARKING Due to limited parking availability for Friday Matinee performances, patrons are strongly en-couraged to take advantage of convenient off-site parking and round-trip shuttle services available from the Cedar Hill Baptist Church (12601 Cedar Road). The fee for this service is $10.
CONCERT PREVIEWS Concert Previews at Severance Hall are pre-sented in Reinberger Chamber Hall on the ground fl oor, except when noted, beginning one hour be-fore the start of most subscription concerts.
Guest Information
74 The Cleveland OrchestraGuest Information
AT THE CONCERTCOAT CHECK Complimentary coat check is available for concertgoers. The main coat check is located on the street level midway along each gallery on the ground fl oor.
PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO, AND AUDIO RECORDING For the safety of guests and performers, pho-tography and videography are strictly prohibited during performances at Severance Hall.
REMINDERS Please disarm electronic watch alarms and turn off all pagers, cell phones, and mechanical devices before entering the concert hall. Patrons with hearing aids are asked to be attentive to the sound level of their hearing devices and adjust them accordingly. To ensure the listening pleasure of all patrons, please note that anyone creating a disturbance of any kind may be asked to leave the concert hall.
LATE SEATING Performances at Severance Hall start at the time designated on the ticket. In deference to the comfort and listening pleasure of the audience, late-arriving patrons will not be seated while music is being performed. Latecomers are asked to wait quietly until the fi rst break in the program, when ushers will assist them to their seats. Please note that performances without intermission may not have a seating break. These arrangements are at the discretion of the House Manager in consulta-tion with the conductor and performing artists.
SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Severance Hall staff are experienced in assist-ing patrons to fi nd seats that meet their needs. Wheelchair seating is available on the Orchestra Level, Box Level, and Dress Circle, and in Reinberger Chamber Hall at a variety of prices. For patrons who prefer to transfer from a wheelchair, seats with removable arms are available on the Orches-tra Level in the Concert Hall. ADA seats are held for those with special needs until 48 hours prior to the performance, unless sell-out conditions exist before that time. Severance Hall features seating locations for people with mobility impairments and offers wheelchair transport for all performances. To discuss your seating requirements, please call the Ticket Offi ce at (216) 231-1111. TTY line access is available at the public pay telephone located in the Security Offi ce. Infrared Assistive Listening Devices are available from a
Head Usher or the House Manager for all perfor-mances. If you need assistance, please contact the House Manager at (216) 231-7425 in advance if possible. Service animals are welcome at Severance Hall. Please notify the Ticket Offi ce when purchasing tickets.
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY Contact an usher or a member of the house staff if you require medical assistance. Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building. Ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency.
SECURITY For security reasons, backpacks, musical instru-ment cases, and large bags are prohibited in the concert halls. These items must be checked at coat check and may be subject to search. Severance Hall is a fi rearms-free facility. No person may possess a fi rearm on the premises.
CHILDREN Regardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat through-out the performance. Season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under the age of eight. However, Family Concerts and Musical Rainbow programs are designed for families with young children. Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra performances are recommended for older children.
TICKET SERVICESTICKET EXCHANGES Subscribers unable to attend on a particular concert date can exchange their tickets for a dif-ferent performance of the same week’s program. Subscribers may exchange their subscription tickets for another subscription program up to fi ve days prior to a performance. There will be no service charge for the fi ve-day advance ticket exchanges. If a ticket exchange is requested within 5 days of the performance, there is a $10 service charge per concert. Visit clevelandorchestra.com for details and blackout dates.
UNABLE TO USE YOUR TICKETS? Ticket holders unable to use or exchange their tickets are encouraged to notify the Ticket Offi ce so that those tickets can be resold. Because of the demand for tickets to Cleve land Orchestra perfor-mances, “turnbacks” make seats available to other music lovers and can provide additional income to the Orchestra. If you return your tickets at least 2 hours before the concert, the value of each ticket can be used as a tax-deductible contribution. Pa-trons who turn back tickets receive a cumulative donation acknowledgement at the end of each calendar year.
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Meet Margaret Mitchell Cleveland Orchestra Heritage Society Co-Chair, member, and Heritage Society ambassador on WCLV
How many years have you been attending Orchestra concerts?Bill and I have been going to Orchestra concerts ever since
we were married and came to Cleveland — sixty years.
We spent many family summer evenings at Blossom when
our children were young.
Your favorite composer?I really love the ability of the Orchestra to play any music
well, so I have to say I like whatever the Orchestra plays.
But Mahler and Bruckner are classical favorites; Ives and
Adams, among more recent composers.
Your most memorable concerts?Because of the diff erent venues, Dvořák’s “New World” Sym-
phony in old Lucerne; Shostakovich in Miami. Prokofi ev’s
Fift h Symphony — the fi nal movement encore in the Ca-
nary Islands. It’s diffi cult to pick out a favorite at Severance. I love most all of them.
And, in Margaret’s own words, from her WCLV invitation to Orchestra lovers everywhere . . .
Bill and I think Th e Cleveland Orchestra makes Cleveland a great place to live.
— the superb concerts.
— the talented orchestra musicians who contribute much to our community
and represent us so well around the world.
— the education programs building future audiences.
Th ese are some of the reasons we created a planned gift , securing lifelong income
for us. It also makes sense for the Orchestra, helping to build the endowment.
We want Th e Cleveland Orchestra that we love to enrich the lives of our children
and grandchildren as it has for us. With your own planned gift , please join us
as proud members of the Heritage Society.
To learn how you can become a member of the Heritage Society,
contact Jim Kozel, Director of Legacy and Planned Giving,
by calling 216-231-7549 or via email at [email protected]
or go to clevelandorchestra.com and click on Support, then Heritage Society
T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A
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The Partners in Excellence program
salutes companies with annual contri-
butions of $100,000 and more, exem-
plifying leadership and commitment to
artistic excellence at the highest level.
PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE$300,000 AND MORE
KeyBankThe Lubrizol CorporationNACCO Industries, Inc.PNCRaiffeisenlandesbank
Oberösterreich (Europe)
PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE$200,000 TO $299,999
Baker HostetlerEaton CorporationForest City Enterprises, Inc.The Plain Dealer
PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE$100,000 TO $199,999
The J. M. Smucker CompanyMedical Mutual of Ohio
$50,000 TO $99,999
FirstMerit BankThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Jones DayParker Hannifin CorporationThe Sage Cleveland FoundationTele München Group (Europe)
$25,000 TO $49,999
Conn-Selmer, Inc.Giant EagleJPMorgan Chase FoundationNorthern Trust Bank
of Florida (Miami)Quality Electrodynamics (QED)Richard L. Bowen & Associates, Inc.Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP
Thompson Hine LLP
$2,500 TO $24,999
Akron Tool & Die CompanyAmerican Fireworks, Inc.American Greetings CorporationArnstein & Lehr LLP (Miami)Bank of America
BDIBrouse McDowellEileen M. Burkhart & Co. LLCBuyers Products CompanyCalfee, Halter & Griswold LLPThe Cliffs FoundationCommunity Behavioral Health CenterConsolidated Graphics Group, Inc.Dealer Tire LLCDollar BankDominion FoundationErnst & Young LLPEvarts-Tremaine-Flicker CompanyFeldman Gale, P.A. (Miami)Ferro CorporationFifth Third BankFrantz Ward LLPGallagher Benefit ServicesGenovese Vanderhoof & AssociatesGreat Lakes Brewing CompanyGross BuildersHahn Loeser + Parks LLPHiger Lichter & Givner LLP (Miami)Houck Anderson P.A. (Miami)Hyland Software, Inc.Keithley FoundationThe Lincoln Electric FoundationC. A. Litzler Co., Inc.Live Publishing CompanyLNE Group / Lee Weingart (Europe)Macy’sMiba AG (Europe)MindCrafted SystemsMTD Products, Inc.Nordson CorporationNorth Coast Container Corp.Northern HaserotOatey Co.Octavia PressOhio CATOhio Savings Bank, A Division
of New York Community BankOlympic Steel, Inc.Park-Ohio Holdings Corp.PolyOne CorporationThe Prince & Izant CompanyRichey Industries, Inc.RPM International Inc.SEMAG GmbH (Europe)The Sherwin-Williams CompanyStearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alha (Miami)Stern Advertising AgencySumma Health SystemSwagelok CompanyTowers WatsonTriMark S.S. KempTrionix Research Laboratory, Inc.Tucker Ellis & West LLPUlmer & Berne LLPVer Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A.Westlake Reed LeskoskyAnonymous (3)
Annual Supportgifts of $2,500 or more during the past year, as of September 20, 2011
Lifetime GivingJOHN L. SEVERANCESOCIETY
$5 MILLION AND MORE
KeyBank
$1 MILLION TO $5 MILLION
Baker Hostetler
Bank of America
Eaton Corporation
FirstEnergy Foundation
Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
The Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Company
The Lubrizol Corporation /
The Lubrizol Foundation
Merrill Lynch
NACCO Industries, Inc.
Parker Hannifin Corporation
The Plain Dealer
PNC Bank
PolyOne Corporation
The J. M. Smucker Company
The Severance Society recognizes
generous contributors of $1 million
or more in lifetime giving to The
Cleveland Orchestra. Listing
as of September 2011.
Corporate Support
The Cleveland Orchestra gratefully acknowledges and salutes these corporations for their generous support toward
the Orchestra’s Endowment, Annual Fund, Special Projects, and/or Programs. Additional legacy gifts from these
organizations and others are recognized through The Cleveland Orchestra Heritage Society.
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79Severance Hall 2011-12 Foundation/Government Support
$1 MILLION AND MORE
The Cleveland FoundationCuyahoga County residents through
Cuyahoga Arts and CultureMaltz Family FoundationThe Kelvin and Eleanor
Smith Foundation
$250,000 TO $500,000
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
David and Inez Myers Foundation
Ohio Arts CouncilThe Skirball Foundation
$100,000 TO $249,999
Sidney E. Frank FoundationThe GAR FoundationThe George Gund
FoundationMartha Holden Jennings FoundationKulas FoundationThe Mandel FoundationThe Miami Foundation,
from a fund established by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami)
John P. Murphy FoundationSurdna Foundation
$50,000 TO $99,999
The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation
The Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation
Myra Tuteur Kahn Memorial Fund of The Cleveland Foundation
National Endowment for the ArtsThe Payne FundThe Reinberger Foundation
$20,000 TO $49,999
The Abington FoundationAkron Community FoundationThe Helen C. Cole Charitable TrustThe Mary S. and David C.
Corbin FoundationThe Gerhard Foundation, Inc.Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationElizabeth Ring Mather and
William Gwinn Mather FundThe Nonneman Family Foundation
Annual Supportgifts of $2,000 or more during the past year, as of September 20, 2011
The Cleveland Orchestra gratefully acknowledges and salutes these Foundations and Government agencies for their
generous support toward the Orchestra’s Endowment, Annual Fund, Special Projects, and/or Programs. Additional
legacy gifts from these organizations and others are recognized through The Cleveland Orchestra Heritage Society.
The Esther and Hyman RapportPhilanthropic Trust
The Sisler McFawn Foundation
$2,000 TO $19,999
Ayco Charitable FoundationThe Ruth and Elmer Babin FoundationBicknell FundThe Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening
FoundationThe Collacott FoundationThe Frances G. and Lewis Allen Davies
Endowment FundMary and Dr. George L. Demetros
Charitable TrustElisha-Bolton FoundationFisher-Renkert FoundationThe Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox
Charitable Foundation Funding Arts Network (Miami)The Helen Wade Greene
Charitable TrustThe Hankins FoundationMuna & Basem Hishmeh FoundationRichard H. Holzer
Memorial FoundationThe Kangesser FoundationThe Laub FoundationVictor C. Laughlin, M.D.
Memorial Foundation TrustThe G. R. Lincoln Family FoundationMargaret Clark Morgan FoundationMiami-Dade County Department
of Cultural Affairs (Miami)Laura R. & Lucian Q. Moffitt FoundationThe Nord Family FoundationPaintstone FoundationThe Charles E. & Mabel M. Ritchie
Memorial FoundationThe Leighton A. Rosenthal
Family FoundationSCH FoundationAlbert G. & Olive H. Schlink FoundationThe Sherwick FundLloyd L. and Louise K. Smith
Memorial FoundationThe South Waite FoundationJean C. Shroeder FoundationThe Taylor-Winfield FoundationThe George Garretson Wade
Charitable Trust The S. K. Wellman FoundationThe Wells Family Foundation, Inc.Thomas H. White Foundation,
a KeyBank TrustThe Edward & Ruth Wilkof FoundationWright FoundationThe Wuliger FoundationAnonymous (2)
Lifetime GivingJOHN L. SEVERANCESOCIETY
$10 MILLION AND MORE
The Cleveland Foundation
Maltz Family Foundation
State of Ohio
Ohio Arts Council
The Kelvin and Eleanor
Smith Foundation
$5 MILLION TO $10 MILLION
Cuyahoga County residents
through Cuyahoga
Arts & Culture
Kulas Foundation
$1 MILLION TO $5 MILLION
Ann and Gordon Getty
Foundation
The GAR Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The Louise H. and David S.
Ingalls Foundation
Martha Holden Jennings
Foundation
John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation (Miami)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
John P. Murphy Foundation
David and Inez
Myers Foundation
National Endowment
for the Arts
The Payne Fund
The Reinberger Foundation
The Severance Society recognizes
generous contributors of $1 million
or more in lifetime giving to The
Cleveland Orchestra. Listing
as of September 2011.
T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A
Foundation & Government Support
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INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $500,000 AND MORE
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Cutler Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami)
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $200,000 TO $499,999
Irma and Norman Braman (Miami) The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Susan Miller (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner James and Donna Reid
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $100,000 TO $199,999
Ben and Ingrid Bowman Francie and David Horvitz (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Kloiber (Europe)Mrs. Norma Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McBride Sally S. and John C. Morley Ms. Ginger Warner (Cleveland, Miami) Janet and Richard Yulman (Miami)
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $75,000 TO $99,999
Robert and Jean* Conrad Trevor and Jennie Jones Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Kern Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre The Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong Julia and Larry Pollock Barbara S. Robinson
Leadership Council The Leadership Council salutes those extraor-
dinary donors who have pledged to sustain their
annual giving at the highest level for three years or
more. Leadership Council donors are recognized in
these Annual Support listings with the Leadership
Council symbol next to their name:
Individual Support
The Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association gratefully recognize the individuals
listed here, who have provided generous gifts of cash or pledges of $2,500 or more
in annual operating, endowment, special project, or benefit event support.
T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A
Lifetime GivingJOHN L. SEVERANCE SOCIETY
$10 MILLION AND MORE
Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami)
$5 MILLION TO $10 MILLION
Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny
and Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Cutler
Mrs. Norma Lerner
and The Lerner Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner
Anonymous
$1 MILLION TO $5 MILLION
Irma and Norman Braman (Miami)
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Callahan
Mrs. Anne M. Clapp
Mr. George Gund III
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz
Mr. James D. Ireland III
The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre
Susan Miller (Miami)
Sally S. and John C. Morley
The Family of D. Z. Norton
The Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.
Charles and Ilana Horowitz Ratner
James and Donna Reid
Barbara S. Robinson
Anonymous (2)
The Severance Society recognizes generous contributors
of $1 million or more in lifetime giving to The Cleve-
land Orchestra. As of September 2011.
Annual Supportgifts during the past year, as of September 20, 2011
Individual Donors
81Severance Hall 2011-12 Individual Donors
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $50,000 TO $74,999
John P. Bergren* and Sarah M. Evans Mr. William P. Blair III Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny
and Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bolton Hector D. Fortun (Miami) James D. Ireland III R. Kirk Landon
and Pamela Garrison (Miami) Peter B. Lewis and Janet Rosel (Miami)Toby Devan LewisMrs. Emma S. LincolnMs. Nancy W. McCann Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker David A. and Barbara Wolfort Anonymous
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $30,000 TO $49,999
Dr. and Mrs. Wolfgang Berndt (Europe) Blossom Women’s CommitteeThe Brown and Kunze FoundationJeanette Grasselli Brown and Glenn R. Brown Mrs. Gerald N. CannonMr. and Mrs. Matthew V. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Gund George GundMrs. Marguerite B. Humphrey Giuliana C. and John D. Koch Foundation
(Cleveland, Miami) Dr. Vilma L. KohnCharlotte R. KramerMr. and Mrs. Jon A. Lindseth Ms. Beth E. Mooney Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr.Brian and Patricia RatnerCharles and Ilana Horowitz Ratner Luci and Ralph* ScheyMr. and Mrs. Franz Welser-Möst Women’s Committee
of The Cleveland OrchestraAnonymous
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $25,000 TO $29,999
Sheldon and Florence Anderson (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. ConwayTati and Ezra Katz (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. S. Lee Kohrman Dr. and Mrs. David LeshnerMr. and Mrs. Alex Machaskee
Mrs. Jane B. NordMr. and Mrs. James A. RatnerHewitt and Paula Shaw Richard and Nancy Sneed R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton Rick, Margarita and Steven Tonkinson (Miami)Judy and Sherwood Weiser (Miami)
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $20,000 TO $24,999
Gay Cull Addicott Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Bell (Miami)Martha and Bruce Clinton (Miami)Bruce and Beth Dyer Dr. Edward S. GodleskiAndrew and Judy GreenMargaret Fulton-Mueller and Scott Mueller William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ross Marc and Rennie SaltzbergDr. and Mrs. Neil Sethi Paul and Suzanne Westlake Anonymous gift from Switzerland (Europe) Anonymous
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $15,000 TO $19,999
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Baker Randall and Virginia BarbatoJayusia and Alan Bernstein (Miami) Scott Chaikin and Mary Beth CooperDo Unto Others Trust (Miami)Colleen and Richard Fain (Miami) Mr. Allen H. FordRichard and Ann GridleyMrs. John A Hadden Jr.Gary Hanson and Barbara Klante Jack Harley and Judy ErnestIris and Tom Harvie Joan and Leonard HorvitzRichard and Erica Horvitz (Cleveland, Miami)Elizabeth B. Juliano Mr. Thomas F. McKee Mrs. Stanley L. Morgan*Lucia S. NashMr. Gary A. Oatey Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saks Raymond T. and Katherine S. SawyerNancy and Neil Schaffel (Miami)David and Harriet SimonMary M. Spencer (Miami)Dr. and Mrs. William P. Steffee Dr. Kenneth F. SwansonMr. Joseph F. Tetlak
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INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $12,500 TO $14,999
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Aronoff Mr. and Mrs. David J. Carpenter George* and Becky DunnRobert M. Maloney and Laura GoyanesMrs. David Seidenfeld Mrs. Jean H. TaberMr. and Mrs. Alfred Umdasch (Europe)
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $12,499Fred G. and Mary W. BehmMarsha and Brian Bilzin (Miami) Dr. Christopher P. Brandt and Dr. Beth Sersig Mr. D. McGregor Brandt, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. BuehlerJ. C. and Helen Rankin Butler Augustine* and Grace CaliguireRichard J. and Joanne ClarkMr. Bruce Coppock (Miami)Judith and George W. DiehlMr. and Mrs. Robert P. DuvinMike S. and Margaret Eidson (Miami)Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis Jr.Mr. and Mrs.* David K. FordMs. Dawn M. FullMr. Francisco A. Garcia (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Garrett
Albert I. and Norma C. Geller Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. GillespieSondra and Steve HardisHenry R. Hatch and Robin Hitchcock HatchMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Healy Mary and Jon Heider (Cleveland, Miami)David and Nancy Hooker Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. JanusMr. and Mrs. Ferdinand JerebJanet and Gerald Kelfer (Miami) Jonathan and Tina Kislak (Miami)Mrs. Elizabeth R. Koch Tim and Linda Koelz Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. LozickMr. and Mrs. Richard A. ManuelMrs. Robert H. MartindaleMr. and Mrs. Arch J. McCartneyWilliam and Eleanor McCoyMr. and Mrs. Stanley A. MeiselMr. Walter N. MirapaulElisabeth and Karlheinz Muhr (Europe)Brian and Cindy MurphyClaudia and Steven Perles (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. George M. Rose Mr. and Mrs. David A. RuckmanDavid M. and Betty Schneider Rachel R. Schneider, PhD Mr. and Mrs. Oliver E. SeikelKim Sherwin Lois and Tom Stauffer Mrs. Blythe SundbergDr. Russell A. Trusso Clara and David Williams
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $7,500 TO $9,999Mr. William BergerLaurel Blossom Dr. and Mrs. Jerald S. Brodkey Dr. Ben H. and Julia Brouhard Dr. Thomas Brugger and Dr. Sandra RussEllen E. & Victor J. Cohn Supporting Foundation Mr. Owen ColliganMr. and Mrs. William E. ConwayMr. and Mrs. Edward B. Davis Henry and Mary Doll Nancy and Richard DotsonMr. and Mrs. Terry C. Z. EggerMr. David J. GoldenRobert K. Gudbranson and Joon-Li KimKathleen E. HancockDr.* and Mrs. Shattuck W. Hartwell, Jr. Mrs. Sandra L. HaslingerIn memory of Philip J. HastingsPamela and Scott Isquick Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Jack, Jr.Allan V. Johnson Joela Jones and Richard WeissMr. Lawrence B. and Christine H. LeveyJudith and Morton Q. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. McGowan Mr. Donald W. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. MyersMr. and Mrs. William M. Osborne, Jr. Pannonius Foundation
Individual Donors
T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A
Gay Cull Addicott
William W. Baker
Ronald H. Bell
Henry C. Doll
Judy Ernest
Nicki Gudbranson
Jack Harley
Iris Harvie
Brinton L. Hyde
Randall N. Huff
Elizabeth Kelley
David C. Lamb
Raymond T. Sawyer
Barbara Robinson, chair
Robert Gudbranson, vice chair
Ongoing annual support gifts are a critical compo-
nent toward sustaining The Cleveland Orchestra’s
economic health. Ticket revenues provide only a
small portion of the funding needed to support
the Orchestra’s outstanding performances, educa-
tional activities, and community projects.
The Crescendo Patron Program recognizes gener-
ous donors of $2,500 or more to the Orchestra’s
Annual Campaign. For more information on the
benefits of playing a supporting role each year,
please contact Hayden Howland, Manager of
Leadership Giving, by calling (216) 231-7545.
Crescendo Annual Campaign Patrons
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Rosskamm Family TrustMr. Larry J. Santon Patricia J. Sawvel Carol and Albert SchuppNaomi G. and Edwin Z. Singer Family Fund Mrs. Gretchen D. SmithMr. and Mrs. Donald W. Strang, Jr.Bruce and Virginia Taylor Sandy and Ted Wiese Anonymous (2)
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $7,499Dr. Jacqueline Acho and Mr. John LeMayMr. and Mrs. Monte AhujaSusan S. AngellAgnes ArmstrongMr. and Mrs. Albert A. AugustusMs. Jody BaconMr. and Mrs. Dean Barry Mr. Jon Batchelor (Miami)James and Reita BaymanDr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Berger Dr. and Mrs. Eugene H. BlackstoneIn memory of Claude M. BlairMrs. Flora BlumenthalBrennan Family FoundationMr. Robert W. BriggsMr. and Mrs. William C. Butler Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce CampbellMs. Maria Cashy Drs. Wuu-Shung and Amy Chuang Dr. William & Dottie Clark Mrs. Lester E. Coleman Corinne L. Dodero Trust for the Arts and Sciences Mr. and Mrs. Evan R. CornsMr. Peter and Mrs. Julie Cummings (Miami)Mrs. Barbara Ann Davis Peter and Kathryn Eloff Dr. and Mrs. Robert ElstonMary and Oliver Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Emrick, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. GoodmanMr. and Mrs. Randall J. GordonHarry and Joyce Graham Mr. Paul GreigMr.* and Mrs. David E. GriffithsDavid and Robin GunningClark Harvey and Holly SelvaggiT. K. and Faye A. HestonMr. Clifford HillAmy and Stephen Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Brinton L. HydeMr. and Mrs. Christopher Hyland Ms. Martha Ingram (Miami)Judith* and Clifford IsroffRudolf D. and Joan T. Kamper Andrew and Katherine KartalisMilton and Donna* Katz Dr. and Mrs. William S. KiserCynthia Knight (Miami)Julius and Doris KramerMrs. Justin KrentMr. and Mrs. Peter A. Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Lafave, Jr.
Robert and Judie Lasser Judy and Donald Lefton (Miami) Shirley and William Lehman (Miami) Mr.* and Mrs. Leo LeidenMr. Jeff LitwillerMr. and Mrs. Robert P. MadisonMs. Jennifer R. MalkinMr. and Mrs. Morton L. MandelAlan Markowitz M.D. and Cathy PollardMrs. Kay MarshallAlexander and Marianna C. McAfee Claudia Metz and Thomas Woodworth Edith and Ted* MillerMr. and Mrs. William A. Mitchell Robert Moss (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman Richard and Kathleen NordJohn and Margi O’BrienMr. Michael G. OraveczMr. Henry Ott-HansenMr. J. William and Dr. Suzanne PalmerNancy and Robert Pfeifer Dr. and Mrs. John N. Posch Douglas and Noreen PowersLois S.* and Stanley M. ProctorDrs. Raymond R. Rackley and Carmen M. Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. RankinMrs. Nancy L. ReymannMr. and Mrs. James E. RohrCarol Rolf and Steven AdlerDr. Tom D. RoseSteven and Ellen Ross Mr. Christopher RoyMr. Klaus G. Roy and Mrs. Gene J. RoyMr. and Mrs. Robert C. RuhlDrs. Michael and Judith Samuels (Miami)Larry and Sally Sears Dr. and Mrs. James L. SechlerMr. Eric Sellen and Mr. Ron SeidmanDr. Gerard and Phyllis SeltzerDrs. Daniel and Ximena Sessler Mrs. Frances G. ShoolroyMrs. William I. ShorrockLaura and Alvin A. SiegalDavid Kane Smith Jim and Myrna SpiraGeorge and Mary Stark Mrs. Marie S. StrawbridgeCharles B. and Rosalyn Stuzin (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Teel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thornton Mr. Brian ThorntonMr. and Mrs. Lyman H. TreadwayMr.* and Mrs. Robert N. TromblyRobert A. ValenteDon and Mary Louise Van Dyke Bill Appert and Chris Wallace (Miami)Tom and Shirley Waltermire Dr. Edward L. and Mrs. Susan WestbrookTom and Betsy WheelerMr. Roy WodaMrs. Janet A. WrightMr. David ZauderAnonymous (5) listings continue
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Dr. and Mrs. D. P. AgamanolisMr. and Mrs. Quentin AlexanderMr. and Mrs. Robert H. BakerMs. Delphine BarrettMr.* and Mrs. Russell BearssMr. and Mrs. Jules BelkinDr. Ronald and Diane BellDr. Robert BenyoSuzanne and Jim BlaserMr. and Mrs. Dennis A. BlockPaul and Marilyn* BrentlingerMs. Elizabeth E. BrumbaughFrank and Leslie BuckDr. and Mrs. William E. CappaertMrs. Millie L. CarlsonMs. Mary E. ChilcoteDrs. Mark Cohen and Miriam VishnyDiane Lynn CollierMarjorie Dickard ComellaMr. and Mrs. David J. CookPete and Margaret DobbinsMr.* and Mrs. Sidney DworkinMr. Brian L. Ewart
and Mr. William McHenryMr. J. Gilbert and Mrs. Eleanor FreyMrs. Cora C. GigaxRobert N. and Nicki N. Gudbranson
John and Virginia HansenMr. Robert D. HartBarbara Hawley and David GoodmanMatthew D. Healy
and Richard S. AgnesMs. Mary Beth HedlundHazel Helgesen
and Gary D. HelgesenAnita and William HellerBob and Edith Hudson (Miami)Mr. James J. HummerDr. and Mrs. Scott R. InkleyDonna L. and Robert H. JacksonMrs. Rita G. KellyMr. and Mrs. Robert M. KochRonald and Barbara LeirvikMr. and Mrs. Irvin A. LeonardMrs. Emma S. LincolnMr. and Mrs. Robert C. LoeschAnne R. and Kenneth E. LoveRobert and LaVerne LugibihlElsie and Byron LutmanJoel and Mary Ann MakeeMartin and Lois MarcusDr. Susan M. MerzweilerDrs. Terry E. and Sara S. MillerAnn Jones Morgan
Dr. Joan R. MortimerMr. and Mrs. Peter R. OsenarMrs. Ingrid PetrusMr. and Mrs. John S. PietyIn memory of Henry PollakDr. Laurine PurolaDr. Robert W. ReynoldsAmy and Ken RogatBob and Ellie ScheuerMs. Freda SeavertGinger and Larry ShaneDr. Marvin and Mimi SobelMr. and Mrs. William E. SpatzDr. Elizabeth SwensonMs. Lorraine S. SzaboMr. and Mrs. Leonard K. TowerRobert J. and Marti J. VagiMr. and Mrs. Fred A. WatkinsMr. and Mrs. Mark Allen WeigandMr. Peter and Mrs. Laurie WeinbergerRobert C. WepplerNancy V. and Robert L. WilcoxMs. Judith H. WrightAnonymous (3)
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $3,500 TO $4,999
T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A
Stanley I. and Hope S. AdelsteinNorman and Rosalyn Adler Family
Philanthropic FundMr. Gerald O. AllenNorman and Helen AllisonMr. and Mrs. Robert J. AmsdellRev. Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. AndersonMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. AppelbaumMr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Arkin (Miami)Geraldine and Joseph BabinMr. William BaldwinReverend Thomas
and Dr. Joan BaumgardnerMr. and Mrs. Mike BelkinMs. Pamela D. BelknapMr. Roger G. BerkKerrin and Peter Bermont (Miami)Barbara and Sheldon BernsJulia & David Bianchi
(Cleveland, Miami)John A. Biek and Christina J. NortonCarmen and Karl Bishopric (Miami)Bill and Zeda BlauMr. Doug BletcherMrs. Mary Wick BoleJohn and Anne BourassaMs. Barbara E. BoyleBetty Madigan BrandtDavid M. and Carol M. BriggsMs. Mary R. Bynum
and Mr. J. Philip CalabreseMr. and Mrs. Frank H. CarpenterLeigh and Mary Carter
Mr. and Mrs. James B. ChaneyDr. and Mrs. Ronald ChapnickDr. Christopher and
Mrs. Maryann ChengelisMr. and Mrs. Homer D. W. ChisholmMr. and Mrs. Robert A. ClarkDr. Dale and Susan CowanMrs. Frederick F. DannemillerCharles and Fanny Dascal (Miami)Jeffrey and Eileen DavisMrs. Lois Joan DavisMs. Nancy J. Davis (Miami)Scott and Laura DesmondDr. and Mrs. Richard C. DistadMs. Maureen A. Doerner
and Mr. Geoffrey T. WhiteMr. George and Mrs. Beth DownesDavid Jack and Elaine DrageMrs. Mary S. EatonEsther L. and Alfred M. Eich, Jr.Erich Eichhorn and Ursel DoughertyMrs. Margaret EstillDavid and Margaret EwartHarry and Ann FarmerScott Foerster, Forester and BohnertJoan Alice FordMrs. Mary Elizabeth FordMr. Randall and Mrs. Patrice FortinMr. Monte Friedkin (Miami)Marvin Ross Friedman
and Adrienne bon Haes (Miami)Peggy and David* FullmerRichard L. Furry
Marilee L. GallagherBarbara and Peter GalvinJoy E. GarapicMrs. Georgia T. GarnerMr. Wilbert C. Geiss, Sr.Mrs. Joan Getz (Miami)Mr. Herman GilbertAnne and Walter GinnJoyce and Ab* GlickmanMr. and Mrs. David A. GoldfingerDr. and Mrs. Ronald L. GouldCynthia and David GreenbergMr. and Mrs. Brent R. GroverThe Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber
Charitable FoundationNancy and James GrunzweigDr. Phillip M. and Mrs. Mary HallRonald M. and Sallie M. Hall (Miami)Mr. Holsey G. HandysideMr. George P. HaskellVirginia and George HavensOliver and Sally HenkelMr. and Mrs. Jerry HerschmanMr. Robert T. HexterDr. and Mrs. John D. HinesDr. and Mrs. Robert L. HinnesDr. Feite F. HofmanMr. and Mrs. Edmond H. HohertzPeter A. and Judith HolmesThomas and Mary HolmesDr. Keith A. and
Mrs. Kathleen M. Hoover
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $2,500 TO $3,499
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T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A
Xavier-Nichols FoundationRobert and Karen Hostoffer
Mr. and Mrs. Mark HouckDr. Randal N. Huff
and Ms. Paulette BeechMs. Charlotte L. HughesMs. Luan K. HutchinsonMr. and Ms. Charles S. HyleRuth F. IhdeCarol Lee and James IottHelen and Erik JensenMr. Peter and Mrs. Mary JoyceMr. Daniel KamionkowskiMr. William and Mrs. Mary Jo KannenBarbara and Michael J. KaplanRev. William C. KeeneElizabeth KelleyMs. Angela Kelsey (Miami)The Kendis Family Trust:
Hilary & Robert Kendis and Susan & James Kendis
Bruce and Eleanor KendrickMr. James KishFred and Judith KlotzmanJacqueline and Irwin Kott (Miami)Dr. Ronald H. Krasney
and Ms. Sherry Latimer*Dr. James and Mrs. Margaret KreinerMr. James and Mrs. Patricia KrohngoldMr. Donald N. KrosinDavid C. LambMrs. Carolyn LamplKenneth M. LapineAnthony T. and Patricia A. LauriaMr. and Mrs. Leon LazarevJeffrey and Ellen LeavittDr. Hasoon LeeDr. and Mrs. Jai H. LeeMichael and Lois A. LemrDr. Edith LernerDr. Stephen B. and
Mrs. Lillian S. LevineRobert G. LevyDr. Alan and Mrs. Joni LichtinIsabelle and Sidney* LobeDrs. Alex and Marilyn LotasMartha Klein LottmanSandi M. A. Macdonald
and Henry J. Grzes (Miami)Herbert L. and Rhonda MarcusDr. and Mrs. Sanford E. MarovitzMr. and Mrs.* Duane J. MarshDr. Ernest and Mrs. Marian MarsolaisMr. Julien L. McCallMrs. Alice MecredyDr.* and Mrs. Hermann Menges, JrStephen and Barbara MessnerDonald D. MillerMindCrafted SystemsBert and Marjorie MoyarMr. Raymond M. MurphyRichard B. and Jane E. NashMarshall I. Nurenberg
and Joanne Klein
Richard and Jolene O’CallaghanNedra and Mark Oren (Miami)James P. Ostryniec (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Christopher I. PageDeborah and Zachary ParisDr. Lewis and Janice B. PattersonMr. Thomas F. Peterson, Jr.Dr. Roland S. Philip
and Dr. Linda M. SandhausDale and Susan PhillipMr. and Mrs. Richard W. PogueDr. Marc and Mrs. Carol PohlWilliam and Gwen PreucilMr. Richard and
Mrs. Jenny ProeschelMr. Lute and Mrs. Lynn QuintrellMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. QuintrellMs. C. A. ReaganDavid and Gloria RichardsMrs. Florence Brewster RutterFred Rzepka and Anne Rzepka Family
FoundationDr. Harry S. and Rita K. RzepkaNathan N. and Esther Rzepka
Family Philanthropic Fund of theJewish Federation of Cleveland
Dr. and Mrs. Martin I. SaltzmanMs. Patricia E. SayMr. Paul H. ScarbroughMr. James SchutteDr. John Sedor and Ms. Geralyn PrestiLee G. and Jane SeidmanCharles Seitz (Miami)Harry and Ilene ShapiroNorine W. SharpDr. and Mrs. William C. SheldonMr. Richard ShireyDr. Howard and Mrs. Judith SiegelDonald Singer and Helene LoveMr. and Mrs.* Jeffrey H. SmythePete and Linda SmytheMrs. Virginia SnappJay and Ellen Solowksy (Miami)Mr. John C. Soper
and Dr. Judith S. BrennekeMr. John D. SpechtHoward Stark M.D.
and Rene Rodriguez (Miami)Mr. and Mrs.* Lawrence E. StewartMrs. Barbara Stiefel (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. G. W. StuelpeMr. and Mrs. Daniel C. SussenMr. Nelson S. TalbottMr. Karl and Mrs. Carol TheilColin Blades ThomasDr. and Mrs. Thomas A. TimkoMr. and Mrs. Robert J. TomsichMr. Erik TrimbleDrs. Anna* and Gilbert TrueMiss Kathleen TurnerMrs. H. Lansing Vail, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Joaquin Vinas (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Les C. VinneyMr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Wasserbauer
Ms. Laure A. WasserbauerPhilip and Peggy WasserstromMr. and Mrs. Jerome A. WeinbergerRichard Wiedemer, Jr.Helen Sue* and Meredith WilliamsMr. Peter and Mrs. Ann WilliamsRichard and Mary Lynn WillsCharles WinansMichael H. Wolf and
Antonia Rivas-WolfDrs. Nancy Wolf and Aric GreenfieldMr. Robert Wolff
and Dr. Paula SilvermanKay and Rod WoolseyRad and Patty YatesFred and Marcia ZakrajsekMr. Kal Zucker
and Mrs. Mary Frances HaerrAnonymous (11)
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The Cleveland Orchestra’s catalog of recordings
continues to grow. The newest DVD features Bruckner’s
Eighth Symphony recorded live at Severance Hall under
the direction of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst in 2010
and released in May 2011. And, just released,
Dvořák’s opera Rusalka on CD, recorded
live at the Salzburg Festival. Writing of the
Rusalka performances, the reviewer for
London’s Sunday Times praised the perform-
ance as “the most spellbinding account
of Dvořák’s miraculous score I have ever
heard, either in the theatre or on record.
. . . I doubt this music can be better played than by the
Clevelanders, the most ‘European’ of the American or-
chestras, with wind and brass soloists to die for and a
string sound of superlative warmth and sensitivity.”
Other recordings released in the past year
include two under the baton of Pierre Boulez
and a second album of Mozart piano concertos
with Mitsuko Uchida, whose first Cleveland
Orchestra Mozart album won a Grammy Award
this past year.
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H A I L E D A S O N E O F the world’s most
beautiful concert halls, Severance Hall
has been home to Th e Cleveland Or-
chestra since its opening on February 5,
1931. Aft er that fi rst concert, a Cleve-
land newspaper editorial stated: “We
believe that Mr. Severance intended
to build a temple to music, and not a
temple to wealth; and we believe it is his
intention that all music lovers should be
welcome there.” John Long Severance
(president of the Musical Arts Associa-
tion, 1921-1936) and his wife, Elisabeth,
donated most of the funds necessary to
erect this magnifi cent building. De-
signed by Walker & Weeks, its elegant
Georgian exterior was constructed to
harmonize with the classical architec-
ture of other prominent buildings in
the University Circle area. Th e interior
of the building refl ects a combination
of design styles, including Art Deco,
Egyptian Revival, Classicism, and Mod-
ernism. An extensive renovation, resto-
ration, and expansion of the facility was
completed in January 2000. In addition
to serving as the home of Th e Cleveland
Orchestra for concerts and rehearsals,
the building is rented by a wide variety
of local organizations and private citi-
zens for performances, meetings, and
gala events each year.
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U N D E R T H E L E A D E R S H I P of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The
Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing
ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall
and at each summer’s Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vi-
enna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards
of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement.
The partnership with Franz Welser-Möst, now in its tenth season, and with a
commitment to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018, has moved the ensemble
forward with a series of new and ongoing initiatives, including:
the establishment of residencies around the world, fostering creative ar-
tistic growth and an expanded financial base, including an ongoing resi-
dency at the Vienna Musikverein (the first of its kind by an American
orchestra);
an annual Miami Residency involving three weeks of concerts, commu-
nity activities, and educational presentations and collaborations;
concert tours from coast to coast in the United States, including regular
appearances at Carnegie Hall;
regular concert tours to Europe (including biennial residencies at the
Lucerne Festival) and Asia (including a residency at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall
in the autumn 2010);
ongoing recording activities, including new releases under the direction
of Franz Welser-Möst and Pierre Boulez as well as a series of DVD con-
cert presentations of four of Bruckner’s symphonies;
additional new residencies at Indiana University and at New York’s Lin-
coln Center Festival;
an expanded offering of education and community programs with a
comprehensive approach designed to make music an integral and regular
part of everyday life in Northeast Ohio;
continuing and expanded educational partnerships with schools, col-
leges, and universities from across Northeast Ohio and in the Miami-Dade
community;
creative new artistic collaborations, including staged works and cham-
ber music performances, with arts institutions in Northeast Ohio and
across the Miami-Dade community;
the return of staged opera to Severance Hall with the presentation of ac-
claimed Zurich Opera productions of the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas;
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an array of new concert offerings (including Fridays@7 and Celebrity Series at
Severance Hall as well as movie, themed, and family presentations at Blossom)
to make a wider variety of concerts more available and affordable;
the return of ballet to Blossom, with performances by The Joffrey Ballet.
The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citi-
zens intent on creating an ensemble worthy of joining America’s ranks of major
symphony orchestras. Over the ensuing decades, the Orchestra quickly grew
from a fine regional organization to being one of the most admired symphony
orchestras in the world. The opening of Severance Hall as the Orchestra’s home
in 1931 brought a special pride to the ensemble and its hometown, as well as
providing an enviable and intimate acoustic environment in which to develop
and refine the Orchestra’s artistry. Year-round performances became a reality in
1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center, one of the most beautiful and
acoustically admired outdoor concert facilities in the United States.
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NOVEMBER 1929 — Just two weeks after the Stock Market Crash, and still wearing a black armband in mourning for the death of his wife, Elisabeth, earlier in the year, John L. Severance breaks ground for the construction of Severance Hall.
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ORGAN SYMPHONYThursday December 8 at 8:00 p.m.Friday December 9 at 7:00 p.m.Saturday December 10 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAMarin Alsop, conductorPeter Otto, violinJoela Jones, organ
Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore
Symphony, makes her Cleveland Orchestra
debut with a program of American daring and
French sizzle. The concert thunders to a fi nish
with the gargantuan sounds of Saint-Saëns’s
spirited “Organ” Symphony. Featuring regular
evening concerts and a KeyBank Fridays@7
presentation (with world music by Magda
Giannikou and Banda Magda).
Concert Sponsor: Medical Mutual of OhioFridays@7 Sponsor: KeyBank
LUISI LEADS MOZARTAND STRAUSSFriday November 25 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday November 26 at 8:00 p.m.Sunday November 27 at 3:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAFabio Luisi, conductorJonathan Biss, piano
Fabio Luisi, recently appointed principal
conductor of the Metropolitan Opera,
makes his much-anticipated Cleveland Orch-
estra debut with a program pairing favorite
orchestral works by two all-star operatic
composers. American pianist Jonathan Biss
returns to Cleveland for one of Mozart’s most
alluring piano concertos, while Luisi leads
the Orchestra in two of Richard Strauss’s
most endearing tone poems, Till Eulenspiegel
and Aus Italien.
Concert Sponsor: PNC
See also the concert calendar listing on pages 48-49, or visit The Cleveland Orchestra online for a complete schedule of future events and performances, or to purchase tickets online 24/ 7 for Severance Hall concerts.
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