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ISSUE TWO • 2014–2015 SEASON

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PAUL MCDERMAND You have never heard the Steel Drum played like this before! This in-demand percussionist steps into the spotlight for a tasteful variety of fun loving music. Steel Drum and Marimba settings of Caribbean, Jazz and Pop favorites. You will love this thrilling display of percussive skill coupled with playful musical interplay between the 5 band members.

Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 7:30 pm, The Maryland Theatre

MAINSTREET BRASS The Mainstreet Brass has proven itself on the concert stage as a dedicated ambassador to brass music, original or transcribed. Their experience in the field of concert performance and music education make this a very flexible form of chamber music, versatile in repertoire from Bach to Bernstein.

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm, The Maryland Theatre

WILLIAM FLORIAN Featuring William Florian iconic folk music songwriter and former lead singer of “The New Christy Minstrels.” Music of the ‘60s as well as stories of many names you remember like John Denver, Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio and Woody Guthrie. This familiar repertoire and laid-back style continue to inspire his vast fan base.

Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 3:00 pm, The Maryland Theatre

ALEX DEPUE WITH MIGUEL DEHOYAS World-renowned violinist/fiddler leads duo through an array of styles-Classical, Bluegrass, Rock-with blazing virtuosity and emotion. Duo credits include an appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as feature entertainers with the International Bluegrass Music Association. Supercharged, accessible, genre-crossing repertoire. They were the number one choice for all of us who were in Nashville last summer.

Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 7:30 pm, The Maryland Theatre

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*Artists and programs are subject to change without notice.

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MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND TALES

SHARON ISBIN PERFORMS CHRIS BRUBECK

MOTOWN TONIGHT!

4 Greetings from Music Director & Conductor Elizabeth Schulze

6 Letter from Board President James G. Pierné

6 Letter from MSO Executive Director Michael Jonnes

7 MSO Board of Directors

8 Meet Music Director & Conductor Elizabeth Schulze

9 Orchestra Roster

11 Enjoy the Concert!

MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND TALES13 Program

14 Meet Kimberly Valerio

15 Notes

BROTHERS ON THE BATTLEFIELD17 Program

18 Meet Rodney Marsalis

20 Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass

SHARON ISBIN PERFORMS CHRIS BRUBECK

23 Program

24 Meet Sharon Isbin

26 Notes

MOTOWN TONIGHT!31 Program

32 Meet Spectrum

FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY34 Thanks to Our Supporters

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In March, we celebrate the music that moved America, from the days of the Civil War on through to the days of the War for Civil Rights. Rodney Marsalis returns, this time with his ensemble of brilliant musicians, ready to thrill you with their virtuosity and mastery of all styles of music, in this multi-media presentation of “Brothers on the Battlefield.”

Our April Masterworks finale is especially meaningful, as we bring a new piece of music into the world and bid farewell to one of our own. Chris Brubeck’s guitar concerto has been written for Grammy award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin and we are honored to have the opportunity to premiere this work with her. We will also pay honor to longtime MSO timpanist, Joe McIntyre, who will retire at the end of the season after thirty-three years of truly distinguished music-making with the orchestra.

In May, the music of Motown will fill the hall in a Pops tribute to the great songs of Hitsville, USA, featuring the soulful voices of Spectrum. You’ll

revel in “the sound that changed America.”

In addition, over the next few months, we’ll be performing for over 8,000 students, with 30-plus school presentations, master classes, and coachings, culminating in our collaborative Carnegie Hall Link Up educational concerts for thousands of fourth grade students in the four-state region.

As you can see, we wear many musical hats and we’re proud to serve our community!

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Schulze

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As we open the second half of our 33rd season, I and the Maryland Symphony family want to wish you all the best for a happy and successful new year…

Our winter and spring concerts offer something a bit different, with what we call cross-over programming,and multi-media concerts. The works offered at our February Masterworks concerts are based on legends and myths, including the Overture from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, the Suite from Grieg’s Peer Gynt, and American composer John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy, based on the famous children’s book of a magical flutist. Our own superbly talented Flute Principal Kim Valerio takes on the theatrical role of the Pied Piper in this extraordinary work.

Our March Masterworks takes the MSO into the realm of American history, with the virtuosic Rodney Marsalis and the Philadelphia Big Brass presenting a program of classical and popular music including Yankee Doodle Dandy, the Hummel Trumpet Concerto, polkas, Amazing Grace, and other works in a narrated program, Brothers on the Battlefield, about the civil rights movement from the Civil War until now.

In a season featuring a number of truly

extraordinary guest artists, we are delighted to welcome Sharon Isbin, among the world’s great classical guitarists, for our final Masterworks program in April. She and the MSO will premiere a Concerto composed for her by Chris Brubeck, son of the iconic jazz great, Dave Brubeck. And following that we close the Masterworks series with one of Beethoven’s greatest works, the Symphony No. 7.

Our second pops concert, in early May, features a spectacular Motown show, with Spectrum, an ensemble out of Las Vegas that brings to life the music of the Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, James Brown, Michael Jackson, and so many others…this show will have you dancing in the aisles!One common bond of this season has been the championing of American voices, as performers and as composers…the Spirit of America is alive and well in Hagerstown and Washington County.

Enjoy the season!

Michael Jonnes Executive Director

LETTER FROM MSO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

With my term as President of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra coming to a close in late June, I write today with best wishes for the New Year and my annual pitch: please support your local orchestra! In thinking about this letter, I want to give you a brief ‘state of the orchestra’ picture. In the bigger picture, the Maryland Symphony is in good shape, but we do live in a rapidly evolving and complex world now, where social media and our electronic devices seem to drive our lives—it has become clear that we need to be looking to the future. As an organization that provides live concerts we would seem to be an anomaly in our internet-based world, but the visceral excitement of our concerts and the enduring genius of the music we play, and the level at which we play it, insures that there will always be a place for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra.

Even so, we have begun the process of rethinking what the orchestra should be and can be. This process will be collaborative and inclusive, with the many different constituencies that comprise the orchestra family having a voice, and the process will unfold over several seasons. We will look at ticket pricing, and the concert experience; we

will look at what younger generations would want the MSO to look like in 20 years.

We will most certainly change how we market and publicize the orchestra, how people perceive us, and how we interact with the community. We will continue to expand our educational programs working closely with the Washington County Public School system; we will continue to work with the downtown Hagerstown businesses and organizations to help insure that the community is vibrant and alive, and we will continue to build partnerships to play a role as a valued community partner. We look forward to working with you, our patrons, and the community, to ensure that the MSO remains a jewel in the crown here in our region. It has been wonderful working with Elizabeth, our musicians, board and staff, and with you, our generous patrons. All the best,

James G. Pierné President, Board of Directors

James G. Pierné President,

MSO Board of Directors

michael Jonnes MSO Executive Director

LETTER FROM THE MSO PRESIDENT


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With passion, verve, and illuminating musicianship, Elizabeth Schulze has been conducting orchestras and opera companies, advocating for music education, and electrifying audiences in the United States and abroad for more than two and a half decades.

Recipient of the very first Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s Elizabeth Schulze Music Advocacy Award in 2014, and the 2013 Sorel Medallion in Conducting for her adventurous programming, Schulze is in her 16th season as the Music Director and Conductor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and her 7th season as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she is Principal Guest Conductor of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.

In 1996 she made her European debut, leading the Mainz Chamber Orchestra in the Atlantisches Festival in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She appeared in Paris as the assistant guest conductor for the Paris Opera and has also appeared in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Vienna with the National Symphony during its 1997 European tour. Her most recent international work includes conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. This fall takes her to Taiwan for appearances with Taipei’s Evergreen Symphony Orchestra.

Schulze’s recent guest conducting in the States includes appearances with the New Jersey, Detroit, San Francisco, and Chautauqua symphony orchestras. Her past positions with U.S. orchestras include an appointment as associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, music director and conductor of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, a seven-year position as music director and conductor of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, cover conductor and conducting assistant for the New York Philharmonic, and assistant conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, an appointment sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Since the beginning of her career, Schulze has been a spirited advocate for music education. Her far-ranging work includes her ongoing association with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute (SMI). For 14 years Schulze has conducted, taught and mentored dozens of young musicians in the SMI at the Kennedy Center. She has also conducted the American Composer’s Orchestra in educational and family concerts in Carnegie Hall and throughout New York City. And for six years, Schulze joined her mentor Leonard Slatkin teaching at the NSO’s National Conducting Institute.

Her music education and mentoring work, spans from elementary to university students. She was an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and has guest conducted the orchestras of The University of Maryland, the Manhattan School of Music and Catholic University of America and guest lectured at The Juilliard School.

Schulze’s own education includes training in Europe and in the United States. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and as an honors student from Interlochen Arts Academy. She holds graduate degrees in orchestral and choral conducting from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was the first doctoral fellow in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University and was selected as a conducting fellow at L’École d’Arts Americaines in France. In 1991, she was the recipient of the first Aspen Music School Conducting Award. At Aspen, she has worked with Murry Sidlin, Lawrence Foster, and Sergiu Commissiona. As a Tanglewood fellow, she has worked with Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, and Leonard Bernstein.

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MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC.2014–2015 Season, Elizabeth Schulze, ConductorFIRST VIOLINSRobert Martin Concertmaster

MSO Guild ChairJoanna Natalia Owen Associate ConcertmasterHeather L. Austin-Stone Assistant ConcertmasterLysiane Gravel-Lacombe Thomas Marks Chair H. Lee BrewsterYen-Jung ChenMauricio D. CoutoMegan GrayHeather HaughnCatherine NelsonPetr SkopekMadeline WatsonHyun Hannah Yoo*

SECOND VIOLINSMarissa Murphy Principal J. Emmet Burke ChairAriadna Buonviri Associate PrincipalJulianna Chitwood Assistant PrincipalKarin KelleherRuth ErbeTeresa L. GordonMelanie KupersteinSwiatek Kuznik*Mary Katherine WhitesidesPatricia Wnek

VIOLASPhyllis Freeman Principal Alan J. Noia ChairMagaly Rojas Seay Associate PrincipalDaphne Benichou Assistant PrincipalSungah MinRachel HoladayStephanie KnutsenSean Lyons*Alice Tung

CELLOSTodd Thiel Principal J. Ramsay Farah ChairOpen

Associate Principal Open Assistant PrincipalAneta OtrebaMauricio BetanzoKatlyn DeGrawJessica Siegel Weaver

BASSESAdriane Benvenuti Irving Principal Stuart Knussen ChairMichael Rittling Associate PrincipalAli CookLee PhilipVincent Trautwein

FLUTESKimberly Valerio Principal Marjorie M. Hobbs ChairSusan MottElena Yakovleva

PICCOLOElena Yakovleva

OBOESFatma Daglar Principal Joel L. Rosenthal ChairDavid M. James

ENGLISH HORNDavid M. James

CLARINETSBeverly Butts Principal John M. Waltersdorf ChairMichael Hoover

BASS CLARINETJay Niepoetter

BASSOONSErich Heckscher Principal Bennett S. Rubin ChairScott CassadaSusan Copeland Wilson

CONTRA BASSOONSusan Copeland Wilson

HORNSJoseph Lovinsky Principal Libby Powell ChairMark L. Hughes Assistant PrincipalShawn Hagen*James D. VaughnPaul Hopkins

TRUMPETSNathan Clark Principal Robert T. Kenney ChairScott A. Nelson Robert W. Grab ChairMatthew Misener

TROMBONESWayne Wells Principal Richard T. Whisner

ChairJeffrey GaylordDana Landis

TUBADaniel Sherlock Principal Claude J. Bryant Chair

TIMPANIJoseph McIntyre Principal William J. Reuter

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PERCUSSIONDonald A. Spinelli Principal Donald R. Harsh, Jr.

ChairJulie Angelis BoehlerRobert Hayden Jenkins

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PIANO/KEYBOARDOpen James G. Pierné Chair

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LATE ARRIVALSUshers will gladly seat you during an ap-propriate break in the program.

DRESS CODEWhile audiences for our Saturday evening concerts often dress up, and Sunday mati-nee patrons tend to be more casual, please dress in a way that is comfortable for you. In consideration of those seated near you, please use fragrances sparingly.

FOOD AND DRINKAll food and drink, with the exception of bottled water, must be consumed in the lobby. Please help us keep the historic Maryland Theatre clean as we look for-ward to another 100 years of entertain-ment in our community. Thank you for adhering to our food and drink policy.

NOISEPlease be considerate of others by mini-mizing noise that may be disruptive dur-ing the performance. Kindly turn off cell phone or set them on silent. We ask that you enjoy food, drink and conservation in the lobby. You may be asked to remove any disruptive children who accompany you. It is appropriate to excuse yourself if you experience a prolonged bout of coughing or sneezing.

SMOKINGSmoking is not permitted in the Theatre.

EMERGENCY EXITPlease take note of the nearest emegency exit. In the event of an emegency, walk calmly to the exit, do not run.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICESPhotography, videotaping, and sound recording are strictly prohibited in the Theatre. Likewise, texting, tweeting, and the recording and distribution of any per-formance related content on social media is also prohibited.

STUDENTS AND CHILDREN TICKETSFree tickets for Masterworks concerts are available for students in grades K-12 and all children who are not yet school aged. Discounted tickets are available for MSO Pops! and our “Home for the Holidays” concerts in December. Please contact the box office for more information.

TICKETSDue to fire code regulations, all patrons, including infants, are required to have a valid ticket when entering the Theatre. Tickets obtained from the box office are printed on thermal paper and should be kept out of direct sunlight and away from extreme heat to avoid discoloration and the possibility that they may become unreadable. All tickets, including e-tickets will be validated using the barcode ap-pearing on the ticket. To expedite your

entrance into the theatre, please be sure that the barcode has not been damaged on your ticket. Contact the box office for replacement tickets, if necessary.

COLLEGE RUSH TICKETSCollege student rush tickets are available for $5 to all Masterworks concerts. These tickets may be purchased in advance through the MSO website or at the MSO box office. Patrons who purchase a college student rush ticket may be requested to show their unexpired college student ID to validate the ticket at the door. Seat selec-tion for these discounted tickets is at the discretion of the MSO box office personnel and standard service fees apply on the purchase of these discounted tickets.

LOST TICKETSPlease call the MSO office for replacement tickets.

RETURNS, EXCHANGES, AND REFUNDSTicket holders may return their unused tickets to the MSO office for resale prior to the concert and receive verification of their tax-deductible contribution. Sub-scribers may exchange their tickets at no charge for the alternate performance of the same program after the renewal period has lapsed. Exchanges will not be honored one hour prior to curtain due to congestion in The Maryland Theatre lobby. All MSO concert sales are nonrefundable, unless a concert is cancelled.

CANCELLATIONSConcert cancellation information is avail-able on local TV and radio stations, on our Web site at www.marylandsymphony.org or by calling the Box Office. Any cancel-lations will be announced no later than three hours prior to the scheduled start time of the performance.

GIFT CERTIFICATESA wonderful gift for any occasion, gift certificates may be purchased for any dollar amount and redeemed for tickets to any MSO performance.

PRELUDEMusic Director Elizabeth Schulze shares information on featured composers and works during Prelude, a half-hour presen-tation that will enhance your enjoyment and appreciation of the concert to follow. Prelude begins one hour prior to each Masterworks performance and is free to ticket holders.

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Myths, Legends, and taLes

With Special Guest Kim Valerio, Flute

Student tickets for Masterworks Series performances are generously underwritten by contributions from Music Director Elizabeth Schulze and Susquehanna Bank.

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is proud to be a resident ensemble of the historic Maryland Theatre. Photography, video and sound recording are not permitted in the concert hall. Please take note of the nearest emergency exit. In the event of an emergency walk calmly to the exit, do not run.

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MASTERWORKS SERIES

Overture to The Magic Flute, Wolfgang Amadeus MozartK. 620 (1756-1791)

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) I Morning Mood II Death of Åse III Anitra’s Dance IV In the Hall of the Mountain King

Intermission

Pied Piper Fantasy for Solo John CoriglianoFlute and Orchestra (1938-) I Sunrise and the Piper’s Song II The Rats III Battle with the Rats IV War Cadenza V The Piper’s Victory VI The Burgher’s Chorale VII The Children’s March

KIM VALERIO, FLUTE


KIMBERLY VALERIOFlutist Kimberly Valerio holds a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from the Peabody Conservatory where she studied with Mark Sparks. Her principal teachers have included Mary Louise Poor, Bonnie Lake, Donald Peck, and Walfrid Kujala. In addition, she has performed in master classes with Carol Wincenc, Robert Willoughby, Donald Peck and was a featured performer in the James Galway Masterclass at the National Flute Association‘s 1997 Chicago convention.

Ms. Valerio has been awarded first place honors in many competitions including the Chicago Flute Society, the Liberty Freemont Concert Society, the Society of American Musicians, Chicago’s Musical Arts, and the Elmhurst Symphony Young Artist Competition.

Ms. Valerio’s past teaching appointments include St. Mary’s College, Salisbury State University, Anne Arundel Community College, and the Peabody Preparatory.

She has been playing Principal Flute with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra since 2004 and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra since 1998. In addition to her appointment with both orchestras she has performed with the Saint Louis Symphony throughout their 2002-2004 season,

Baltimore Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, Spoleto Festival Orchestra U.S.A., Mid Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, South Florida Symphony Orchestra, and Chesapeake Chamber Orchestra.

Kimberly Valerio’s sound has been described as having “sparkle and verve” by the Baltimore Sun, “gorgeous sound”, “sweet purity” by the Capital Gazette, and “graceful elegance” by the Severna Park Voice.

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Overture to Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791

Public taste is fickle.

By the late 1780s, Mozart’s star in Vienna was dimming rapidly. The change in popular musical taste, general economic decline and his own inability to manage his finances, combined to make him emotionally frantic and scrambling for commissions.

Since there was no more demand for Mozart’s Akademien (self-promoting subscription concerts), and his most successful librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, had left Vienna, he turned for a joint operatic venture to one of the most colorful (and successful) dramatists and theater directors of the era, Emanuel Schikaneder. Mozart and Schikaneder knew each other both professionally and as fellow Freemasons. Schikaneder’s libretto contains many elements of the Freemason philosophy and ritual in its emphasis on human enlightenment. It promotes its high-minded ideology through a fairytale plot and characters, in addition to moments of incredible silliness.

The Magic Flute is a dramatization of the battle between the forces of good (light) and evil (darkness), symbolized by the high priest of Isis, Sarastro, and the Queen of the Night. In order to win the hand of the Queen’s daughter, Pamina, whom Sarastro has abducted and detained “for her own good,” Prince Tamino must undergo trials by fire and water. He succeeds with the aid of a magic flute, while his companion, the comic bird-catcher Papageno, bungles through lesser trials to win himself a wife, Papagena.

Most operatic overtures of this period contain no themes from the operas themselves. The important exception here is the three solemn chords that open the overture. These chords reappear later as the fanfare before Tamino’s trial and purification. The slow, dignified opening is followed by a sprightly fugal allegro, whose initial rapid repeated notes have

a pecking quality – perhaps presenting Papageno the comic birdcatcher.

Suite No. 1, Op. 46 from Peer Gynt Edvard Grieg 1843-1907

The most successful and best known of nineteenth-century Scandinavian composers, Edvard Grieg, was one of the great exponents of Romantic nationalism and a promoter of his native country’s culture. He saw as his role in life to bring Scandinavian – especially Norwegian – musical and literary culture to the attention of the rest of Europe. He succeeded in this endeavor and, as a composer, pianist and conductor, became a sought-after figure in Europe’s music centers. With his wife Nina, an accomplished singer, he traveled extensively, popularizing his songs and piano works. Grieg was also instrumental in bringing the work of Scandinavian poets and dramatists, especially Henrik Ibsen, Norway’s most famous playwright, to the attention of the rest of Europe.

In 1867 Ibsen published Peer Gynt, a play satirizing the weaknesses of human nature. It is the picaresque life journey of a would-be hero in search of his own identity. Peer’s quest contrasts episodes of selfishness and generosity, fantasy and reality, materialism and spirituality, steadfast loyalty and treachery.

In 1874, Ibsen asked Grieg to write incidental music for a new production of the revised play. Initially Grieg thought that only a few fragments of music would be required, but by the time he finished the project more than a year later, he had written 23 sections – over one hour of music – including vocal and choral numbers. While Grieg attempted to express himself in the simple modes of his native Norwegian folk idiom, his early training in German Romanticism comes through; the music owes much to Mendelssohn and Schumann. In some of the sections Grieg tried to express in music the mood of the Norwegian countryside.

From these 23 sections, Grieg extracted two orchestral suites, but the sequence

of movements in the suites does not correspond to the dramatic order in the play. Rather, he created typical orchestral suites with movements alternating in mood and tempo. The movements of the two Suites each feature different orchestral solos or section solos. While composed for orchestra, some of the numbers in the incidental music included parts for soprano soloist and chorus that are often interpolated into the suites.

Suite No. 1 consists of the following:

1. Morning Mood: Originally the Prelude to Act IV. The woodwinds proclaim the dawn and the rustling sounds of the woods and streams. The mood darkens slightly in the middle section.

2. Death of Ase: Is a funereal chant for the death of Ase, Peer’s beleaguered widowed mother.

3. Anitra’s Dance: Anitra, the seductive daughter of an Arabian chief, tries to entice Peer to stay at the chief ’s court.

4. In the Hall of the Mountain King: Peer has a run-in with trolls – Norway’s indigenous monsters who hide out under bridges and populate the nightmares of Norwegian children. The dance starts slowly, deep in the range of the solo bassoon, accompanied by pizzicato basses, gradually building up the tempo and dynamics as more instruments are added – a Norwegian Bolero. In Ibsen’s play, this scene also includes a chorus. A coda with the unusual effect of staccato cymbal crashes concludes the Suite.

Pied Piper Fantasy John Corigliano b.1938

A native of New York, John Corigliano came by his music talents honestly. His father, John Sr., was for 23 years concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, and his mother was an accomplished pianist. John, Jr. studied at Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music, subsequently working at New York’s WQXR radio station and later


as an assistant director at CBS-TV.

Corigliano first came to prominence as a composer after winning the chamber music prize for his Sonata for Violin and Piano at the 1964 Spoleto Festival. Since the 1970s, he has emerged as a successful and popular classical composer, whose works are frequently and widely performed. From 1987 to 1990, Corigliano was composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony, a tenure that culminated in his powerful Symphony No.1, his personal response to the AIDS crisis. Currently he is Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York and, in 1991, was named to the faculty of The Juilliard School. Also in 1991 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 2001 his Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra, an expanded version of his 1995 String Quartet, won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

Corigliano composed the Pied Piper Fantasy on commission from flutist James Galway, who premiered it in 1982. Galway’s love of the penny whistle gave Corigliano the idea of composing a piece based on Robert Browning’s poem on the medieval legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. It is the story of a piper who claims he can exterminate the town’s rats by causing them to follow his playing until they drown in the river. When he accomplishes the feat, however, the smug townspeople stiff him. He then begins a cheerful march, luring the town’s children to follow him out of town into a cave where they disappear forever.

For Corigliano, the idea of a programmatic fantasy-concerto based on the Pied Piper legend became a fascinating structural challenge. Finding the simple tale insufficiently nuanced to be converted into a virtuosic flute concerto, Corigliano elaborated on nearly every aspect of the story: the Piper’s initial unsubstantiated claim, the resulting difficulties in subduing the rats and the argument with the burghers. Corigliano wrote, “I had to modify the story a bit, and I included battle scenes between the Piper and the rats and other elements that

could set the soloist’s fingers racing.” The Pied Piper Fantasy takes the art of tone painting to its apex. Corigliano fashions a clearly recognizable musical rendition for each element of the tale. The seven movements include:

I. Sunrise and the Piper’s Song: The sunrise incorporates the high, skittering, rat-like sounds of the night. A loud outburst of the orchestra heralds dawn, and the soloist plays The Piper’s Song. As the day ends the night-sounds return.

II. The Rats: The rats appear in response to the Pipers Song. This section is characterized by squeaks in the winds and the violin bows bouncing on the strings.

III. Battle with the Rats: The Piper chases the rats through the orchestra in a game of hide and seek. He tries to scatter the stragglers with sudden sforzandos, but more and more appear, with Piper (flute) and rats (orchestra) “locked in angular embrace as the soloist imitates and challenges the rodents with their own musical motives.”

IV. War Cadenza: The cadenza represents the Piper’s attempt to flush the rats from their lair, first testing the air. “He charges up a scale, anticipating flurrying rat-sounds at the top but finding only silence. He savagely attacks a note, expecting the hidden rats to scatter – but once again, silence. As he begins to relax, his song becomes increasingly lyrical. But he has been over-confident, as he is suddenly beset by millions of rats until he is overwhelmed.”

V. The Piper’s Victory: In despair, the Piper improvises a lament, which incorporates fragments of The Piper’s Song. The hypnotic

quality of the Song in its complete form finally overcomes the rats.

VI. The Burgher’s Chorale: Corigliano represents the “smug-sounding, self-satisfied, self-important townspeople” with a chorale mimicking the musical style of the thirteenth century with the winds and a bass drum. The argument between the Piper and the Burghers pits the fluid strains of the flute against the burghers’ bombastic interruptions.

VII. The Children’s March: In frustration, The Piper pulls a tiny tin whistle out of his pocket and plays the cheerful and lively Children’s March. When The Piper begins to trill, young flutists positioned in the audience answer his call. The flutists join with young drummers also in the audience, who, with other children gather on stage. As a final bid for attention, the burghers try an outburst of their chorale, but it is easily swamped by the piping children who, led by the Piper, march off the stage, back into the audience and eventually out of the hall. They play a counterpoint to an orchestral restatement of The Piper’s Song. As the children disappear, the lonely sounds return in the orchestra.

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Just A Closer Walk Arr. Don Gillis (1912-1978)

Contrapunctus No. IX Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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Hallelujah Chorus, Messiah George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)

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I Can’t Help Falling Love Hugo Peretti, Luigi Cratore, George D Weiss, Arr. Tim Olt

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RODNEY MARSALISThe sound of Rodney’s trumpet has reverberated throughout the world. Whether playing baroque piccolo trumpet or interpreting works commissioned especially for him, his artistry has been enthusiastically enjoyed inside of the United States and in such countries as France, Spain, Germany, England, Greece, Rumania, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. He has been praised by music critics from Fanfare Magazine, American Record Guide, Records International Catalog, and other international publications for his evocative interpretation, impeccable virtuosity, and beauty of sound.

In 2013 prior to their wedding Rodney and his wife Jennifer took the last name of Rodney’s grandfather, Joseph Marsalis.

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Mr. Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where he began his musical studies at the age of six. When he was eleven years of age, he began taking classical trumpet lessons with his cousin, Wynton Marsalis. Referred to as a “trumpet prodigy” his solo debut was at the age of fifteen with the New Orleans Symphony. After having won various solo competitions, he received national attention at the age of nineteen performing as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He has also performed as soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the Tenerife Symphony, the Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and many orchestras throughout the United States and Europe.

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SHARON ISBIN Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, multiple GRAMMY Award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time”. She is also the winner of Guitar Player magazine’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award, and the Toronto and Madrid Queen Sofia competitions, and was the first guitarist ever to win the Munich Competition. She has appeared as soloist with over 170 orchestras and has given sold-out performances in the world’s finest halls, including New York’s Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, London’s Barbican and Wigmore Halls, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Paris’ Châtelet, Vienna’s Musikverein, Munich’s Herkulessaal, Madrid’s Teatro Real, and many others. She has served as Artistic Director/Soloist of festivals she created for Carnegie Hall and the Ordway Music Theatre (St. Paul), her own series at New York’s 92nd Street Y, and the acclaimed national radio series Guitarjam. She is a frequent guest on national radio programs including All Things Considered and Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home

Companion. She has been profiled on television throughout the world, including CBS Sunday Morning and A&E. She was a featured guest on Showtime Television’s hit series The L Word, and was the only classical artist to perform in the 2010 GRAMMY Awards. She performed as featured soloist on the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning film, The Departed. Among her other career highlights, she performed at Ground Zero on September 11, 2002, for the internationally televised memorial, and in concert at the White House for President and Mrs. Obama in November 2009. She has been profiled in periodicals from People to Elle, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, as well as on the cover of over 45 magazines. A one-hour documentary on her titled Sharon Isbin: Troubadour, produced by Susan Dangel, will be presented by American Public Television for broadcast on nearly 200 public television stations throughout the US this November- December 2014, and released on DVD/Blu-ray by Video Artists International.

Ms. Isbin’s catalogue of over 25 recordings—from Baroque, Spanish/Latin and 20th Century to crossover and jazz-fusion—reflects remarkable versatility. Her latest recording, Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions (Sony) became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.com, and includes guest rock/jazz guitarists Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Stanley Jordan and Romero Lubambo. Her 2010 GRAMMY Award winning CD Journey to the New World includes guests Joan Baez and Mark O’Connor. Ranked as a #1 bestselling classical CD on Amazon.com and iTunes, it spent 63 consecutive weeks on the top Billboard charts. Her Dreams of a World soared onto top classical Billboard charts, edging out The 3 Tenors, and earned her a 2001 GRAMMY for “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance”, making her the first classical guitarist to receive a GRAMMY in 28 years. Her world premiere recording of concerti written for her by Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun received a 2002 GRAMMY,

as well as Germany’s prestigious Echo Klassik Award. She received a 2005 Latin GRAMMY nomination for “Best Classical Album” and a 2006 GLAAD Media Award nomination for “Outstanding Music Artist” (alongside Melissa Etheridge) for her Billboard Top 10 Classical disc with the New York Philharmonic of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, and concerti by Ponce and Villa-Lobos. This marked the Philharmonic’s first-ever recording with guitar, and followed their Avery Fisher Hall performances with Ms. Isbin as their first guitar soloist in 26 years. Baroque Favorites for Guitar with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra remained on the Billboard Top 10 for 16 weeks, and her Journey to the Amazon with Brazilian percussionist Thiago de Mello and saxophonist Paul Winter, a bestseller in the U.S. and the U.K., received a 1999 GRAMMY nomination for “Best Classical Crossover Album”. She is also featured on Howard Shore’s 2008 GRAMMY nominated soundtrack CD for The Departed.

Her other CDs include Artist Profile, Wayfaring Stranger with mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer, Greatest Hits (EMI), and Aaron Jay Kernis’ Double Concerto with violinist Cho-Liang Lin and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) which received a 2000 GRAMMY nomination. Her eight best-selling titles for EMI include J.S. Bach Complete Lute Suites and concerti by Joaquin Rodrigo which the composer praised as “magnificent”. She is also featured on the GRAMMY Foundation’s Smart Symphonies™ CD distributed to over five million families. Her recordings have received many other awards, including “Critic’s Choice Recording of the Year” in both Gramophone and CD Review, “Recording of the Month” in Stereo Review, and “Album of the Year” in Guitar Player.

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concerti and features works written for her by John Corigliano, Joseph Schwantner and Lukas Foss. (In November 1995, it was launched in the space shuttle Atlantis and presented to Russian cosmonauts during a rendezvous with Mir.) In January 2000, she premiered the ninth concerto written for her: Concert de Gaudí by Christopher Rouse with Christoph Eschenbach and the NDR Symphony, followed by the US premiere with the Dallas Symphony. Among the many other composers who have written for her are Joan Tower, David Diamond, Aaron Jay Kernis, Leo Brouwer, Howard Shore, Steve Vai, Ned Rorem and Ami Maayani. In 2003 she premiered John Duarte’s Joan Baez Suite, and in 2005 she premiered a duo by rock guitarist Steve Vai in their joint concert in Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet. Upcoming premieres in 2015 include a work for guitar and orchestra by Chris Brubeck.

Ms. Isbin’s recent highlights include tours with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra (throughout Austria including Vienna’s Musikverein) and Belgium’s Philharmonique de Liege, recitals and concerti in New York’s 92nd St Y and Carnegie Hall, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, a week of performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Filarmonica Toscanini in Milan, MIDEM Classical Awards in Cannes, and an 18-city Guitar Passions tour with Stanley Jordan and Romero Lubambo in 2014.

Ms. Isbin has toured Europe annually since she was seventeen, and appears as soloist with orchestras throughout the world, including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, St. Louis, Nashville, New Jersey, Louisville, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Buffalo and Utah Symphonies; Saint Paul, Los Angeles, Zurich, Scottish and Lausanne Chamber Orchestras; the London Symphony, Orchestre National de France; and BBC Scottish, Lisbon Gulbenkian, Prague, Milan Verdi, Mexico City, Jerusalem and Tokyo Symphonies. Her festival appearances include Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Ravinia, Grant Park, Interlochen, Santa Fe, Mexico City, Bermuda, Hong

Kong, Montreux, Strasbourg, Paris, Athens, Istanbul, Ravenna, Prague and Budapest International Festivals.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Isbin has performed with the Emerson String Quartet; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; a “Guitar Summit” tour with jazz greats Herb Ellis, Stanley Jordan and Michael Hedges; trio recordings with Larry Coryell and Laurindo Almeida; and duo recordings with Carlos Barbosa-Lima. She collaborated with Antonio Carlos Jobim, and has shared the stage with luminaries from Aretha Franklin to Muhammad Ali.

Born in Minneapolis, Sharon Isbin began her guitar studies at age nine in Italy, and later studied with Andrès Segovia and Oscar Ghiglia. A former student of Rosalyn Tureck, Ms. Isbin collaborated with the noted keyboardist in preparing landmark first performance editions of the Bach lute suites for guitar (published by G. Schirmer). She received a B.A. cum

laude from Yale University and a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music. She is the author of the Classical Guitar Answer Book, and is Director of guitar departments at the Aspen Music Festival and The Juilliard School (which she created in l989 becoming the first and only guitar instructor in the institution’s 100-year history).

In her spare time, Ms. Isbin enjoys trekking in the jungles of Latin America, cross-country skiing, snorkeling and mountain hiking.


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Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra Chris Brubeck b.1952

The third son in a famous musical family, Chris Brubeck is a composer, lyricist, orchestral arranger, musical educator and performer who plays bass, bass trombone, guitar and piano. He enjoys an active and diverse career, equally at home playing Jazz, rock, folk, funk and classical music. He first distinguished himself as a jazz musician, performing and recording with his father Dave Brubeck. Since 1987 he has composed many symphonic works. According to Brubeck, he learned from his father’s compositions – both the pop music and the complex, but singable, cantatas – that serious music can be accessible without being dumbed-downed.

Brubeck describes the concept of the new Guitar Concerto: “This exciting new concerto for guitar & orchestra by Chris Brubeck draws from classical and Latin/Sephardic genres, with other influences from jazz to bluegrass to blues. It is written for GRAMMY winner Sharon Isbin, who performs the world premiere April 11 & 12, 2015 with the MSO and conductor Elizabeth Schulze.”

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827

There is little information about Beethoven’s activities during 1812, the year of the composition of the Seventh Symphony. He was in poor health and while he produced little else that year, the Symphony makes up for in quality what was lacking in quantity. The year itself was momentous; the Russian winter had finally halted Napoleon in his eastward march of conquest, a fact that must have lightened Beethoven’s heart. Napoleon had been the composer’s hero, the intended dedicatee of his Third Symphony, but his insatiable lust for conquest and power was so disillusioning that Beethoven rescinded the dedication and harbored a lifelong grudge. The hardship resulting from Napoleon’s occupation of Vienna in 1809-10 added to his bitterness. The Seventh Symphony

premiered on December 8, 1813 at a gala benefit concert of primarily Beethoven’s own works to aid the wounded of the latest battles against Napoleon.

Also on the program were Wellington’s Victory (the “Battle Symphony”), celebrating another Napoleonic defeat, the Eighth Symphony and numerous smaller works. Beethoven – although profoundly deaf – directed an orchestra made up of Vienna’s most important musical celebrities: Louis Spohr, Domenico Dragonetti, Mauro Giuliani and Ignaz Schuppanzigh played in the strings; Giacomo Meyerbeer and Johann Nepomuk Hummel played timpani; Ignaz Moscheles played the cymbals, and even old Antonio Salieri was there, heading the percussion section.*

Each movement of the Seventh Symphony is dominated by persistent rhythmic motive that – especially in the second movement – is equal in importance to the melodic content of the themes. Richard

Wagner described the Seventh Symphony as “the apotheosis of dance in its loftiest aspects.” The story goes that he once attempted to demonstrate this dance to the accompaniment of Liszt’s piano playing.

The lengthy slow introduction, featuring some of the repertory’s loveliest oboe solos, contrasts in mood with the Allegro, which follows in lively 6/8 meter. The opening movement actually consists of a single complex theme held together by an underlying dotted rhythm in the accompaniment. The pulse extends throughout the entire movement and is only occasionally interrupted.

The theme of the second movement is minimal, a 4/4 ostinato consisting primarily of repeated pitches over which Beethoven adds counter-melodies and a buildup of the orchestration to create emotional tension. Beethoven’s innovative use of the rhythmic pulse in this movement influenced the romantic


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composers who followed and served as a model for Schubert in his Symphony No. 9 in C major, “the Great.”

The Scherzo, in 3/4, is defined by driving quarter notes, dynamic contrasts and shifting rhythms. The trio, with its legato melody for the winds, provides the expected contrast, breaking away from the rhythmic pulse of the Scherzo.

The nineteenth-century musicologist Sir Donald Tovey described the finale as “A triumph of Bacchic fury.” The rondo theme, with its emphatic timpani part, resembles a stomping peasant dance – admittedly refined for the occasion.

* Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was one of Paris’s most noted opera composers. Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846) was a virtuoso double bass player and composer. Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) was a famous Italian guitar virtuoso and composer.

Ignaz Schuppanzigh (1776-1830) was an Austrian violinist, who headed a string quartet for whom Beethoven wrote the three Op.59 quartets. Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1776-1837) was a composer and pianist remembered today mostly for his clarinet compositions. Pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) was a famous interpreter and editor of Beethoven’s music. And former court composer to the Hapsburg emperors, Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) is familiar to music lovers for the fictional account of his rivalry with Mozart in the film Amadeus. Program notes by:Joseph & Elizabeth [email protected]

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contribution from Hagerstown Community College through hosting this series in the

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INDIVIDUAL PLATINUM BATON($7,500 & ABOVE)The Estate of Florence Hill GraffDr. & Mrs. Robert K. HobbsJim & Georgia PiernéWilliam G. PitzerThe Betsy Russell Fund for New

MusicDr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Talton,

In memory of Brooks M. Talton, Sr.

INDIVIDUAL GOLD BATON($5,000 TO $7,499)Sylvia A. Hunsberger &William B.

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INDIVIDUAL SILVER BATON($3,000 TO $4,999)The Honorable & Mrs. W.

Kennedy Boone, IIIBrendan & Katie FitzsimmonsThe Howard Garrett Endowment

Fund for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra

Barbara & Tom HendersonMr. & Mrs. Robert M. KersteinJim & Mindy MarsdenMrs. Theron Rinehart,

In memory of Theron RinehartDr. Roberta RothenDrs. Tara A. Rumbarger & James

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OrchestraHoward N. Weeks, M.D.Julie & Clayton Wilcox, Ed. D.,

Washington County Public Schools

Mr. & Mrs. William P. Young

INDIVIDUAL PATRONS($500 TO $1,249)Dr. & Mrs. A.F. AbdullahJack Anderson & Cheryl Parrott-

AndersonAnonymousThomas J. Arenobine, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftJason Aufdem-BrinkeMr. & Mrs. William BreichnerJeff Cline

Mary Dahbura In loving memory of Bud DahburaMr. & Mrs. Wayne L. DennisMrs. Lynn DuBois,

In memory of McClellan A. DuBois Kenneth V. Duncan,

In memory of Kaye Duncan Andrew C. DurhamJohn & Lois EastonMr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Erck, IIIMrs. H. William Fiedler, Jr.John & Carol FordJonathan, Richele & Samantha Gift, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftMary Jane HawbakerC. William Hetzer, Jr.Jim & Denise HoughtonSusan Anne Ingerman & Arlene

Siegelman, In honor of Elizabeth Schulze

Willa Weller KaalMr. & Mrs. George KalinGeorge & Mary Kalin, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftMr. & Mrs. Richard L. KipeDave KlineMr. & Mrs. Edward H. LoughMike & Sandy MartinLeslie MillsElla C. MosePaul & Harriet MuldowneyGeorge & Nancy MulhollandThe Reverend Kevin & Dr. Margaret

MunroeVarner “Pat” Paddack Jim & Georgia Pierné, In memory of Bud DahburaJim & Georgia Pierné, In memory of Dominick J. PeriniSamuel G. Reel, Jr., In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftKim RenoMrs. Theron Rinehart,

In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftJoseph & Mary Beth RossErica & Patrick J. Saccoia, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Ronald F. SchultzElizabeth Schulze, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftGreg & Ruthann SnookDarlene & Jim Stojak, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas M. TarpleyBill & Phyl ThompsonJohn & Yvonne ThomsonWaltersdorf Family Donor Advised

Fund, by Grayson Oldfather and Margaret Waltersdorf

Mr. & Mrs. Robert WantzTinker & Pat WilliamsonSusan Wert & Vicki Willman,

In memory of our parents; Charles & Helen Wert and Glenn R. Willman

INDIVIDUAL BENEFACTORS($250 TO $499)William T. Alexander, II, Captain,

USNR (Ret.)Mr. & Mrs. Wayne AlterDr. & Mrs. Michael Anderson Anonymous, In honor of Linda Hood’s

Volunteer Work for the MSODr. & Mrs. Michael AttardiHelen R. BeairPieter & Stephanie BickfordDeborah & Gary Bockrath, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftMrs. Jo Ann H. BousumMr. & Mrs. Lester L. Burger, Jr.Constance Coss, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftFrederic & Anne D’AlauroAnton DahburaMrs. Doris B. DillonDr. & Mrs. Gerald I. FalkeBob & Ginger FennelKathryn M. Gift, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftMike GoukerMr. & Mrs. David W. HamsteadTom & Gwen HardGary H. & Iris F. HeichelKlaus & Becky HeinMary & Terry HersheyRichard & June HessMargaret Hall HornbakerSara J. Hoyle Michael & Beth JohnstonSusanne & Rick KassPhil & Donna KellyClyde & Judy KernekMrs. Elizabeth D. Krell

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MSO’s 32nd Annual Season (July 1, 2013 thru June 30, 2014).

Bolded listings indicate contributors who increased their contributionby 10% or more in comparison to the previous season.

friends of the syMPhony


Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Manuel, In honor of Mrs. Elisbeth NothnagelPeter MichaelMichael & Rochelle MorrellJason M. NicholsonMaryland Governor Martin

O’MalleyWilliam O’Toole & Catherine

BodinJon Pike & Diana GaviriaHarry & Patricia ReynoldsJohn & Bobbi SchneblyElizabeth SchwartzCharlotte SeibertPenelope & George SmithMr. & Mrs. Robert E. SteinkeMr. & Mrs. James W. StoneDr. & Mrs. Charles SupernavageHugh & Marty Talton, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftRay Teel & Barbara LawverStanley & Freda ThawleyHarry & Kathy TierneyBill & Frances Young, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftSandy & Bob Wantz, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftJoyce & Rich WeaverTerry F. Wills & Christine Parfitt

INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATES($100 TO $249)Bill & Pat AbelesMargaret Abercrombie, In memory of David AbercrombieSylvia G. Alimena In partial underwriting of the

rental of the Symphony No. 5, op. 47, D Minor, by Dmitri Shostakovich

AnonymousAnonymous Joan S. ApplegateM. Dunbar Ashbury, Jr.Dr. Bibhas C. BandyWilliam K. BeardNancy G. Berg, In support of free student tickets in

memory of Marilyn “Lyn” JonnesVictoria BeyerMr. & Mrs. David BiserAdeline BloomfieldMr. & Mrs. Roy F. BomarKennedy & Debby Boone, In memory of Abbud DahburaMr. & Mrs. Howard B. BowenScott & Kim BowenDr. & Mrs. Lucas H. BrenneckeMrs. Barbara BrewsterMr. & Mrs. William R. BrockwayDr. & Mrs. J. Emmet Burke, In memory of Marilyn JonnesBarbara H. BurkhardtBruce & Jami BushongKeith & Kate ByersMartin & Barbara Czachor, In memory of Bud DahburaKitty & Steve ChamosDr. & Mrs. Samuel Chan

Charles W. ClarkEmma Jane ClineGeorge & Patricia CowperthwaiteArt & Sondra CrumbackerMimi DickinsonRichard & Kandyce DouglasAnne & Keith DunhamNancy DunnThe Reverend Dr. D. Stuart DunnanDarcé E. EastonWm. & Eliz EdwardsDr. & Mrs. Ali El-MohandesThe Elliots, In memory of Adelia Marie

McIntryeBill & Mary ElsenMrs. Patricia F. Enders, In loving memory of Wilda R. GiftMr. James C. FailorRichard J. & Cynthia A. Gagliardi, In memory of Bud DahburaMr. & Mrs. Stephen C. GarlitzThomas H. Gast, In memory of John Edward BriggsCarl & Rose Marie GearhartRob GonsalvesDr. Florence GrantMelvin GreenwaldDr. Peter HalmosWanna Lee & James HaughtEunice HeistandBarbara & Tom Henderson, In memory of Bud DahburaRoland & Leslie HobbsDr. & Mrs. Richard G. HolzMr. & Mrs. James N. HolzapfelStephen & Linda Hood, In memory of our neighbor and

friend, Bud DahburaGeorge HormanEd & Kathy HoseDavid HouseAnna & Doug HutzellNancie J. IrvinJack L. IrwinJHU Department of Computer

Science, In memory of Abbud S. Dahbura

from colleagues of his son Anton Dahbura

Mr. & Mrs. Stanley D. JohnsonMichael Jonnes & Barbara

Blackwood, In memory of Marilyn JonnesJane M. KellerKarol A. KennedyCharles R. Kershner,

In memory of K. Jane R. KershnerRonald & Sue KershnerMr. & Mrs. James R. KingLaurence KingSandra KingAndrew Kipe & Norman MorseLarry KlotzMr. & Mrs. Jan KochanskyBarbara KottJoe KrushinskyDouglas & Rebecca LaneMr. & Mrs. Robert Larivee

Duane S. Lawson, In honor of the Walter Lawson ChairJudith & John LilgaGeorge LimmerTom & Ginny LindsaySusan LiveraMr. & Mrs. Jan. A. LiwskiCarol McIntyre, In memory of Marie McIntyreHenry & Mary McKinneyDr. & Mrs. Wayne A. McWilliamsRegis & Rita MahoneyMr. & Mrs. Frank MalejkoAndrew & Shizumi Manale, In memory of Marie McIntyreAl & Claudia MartinEstelle M. Martin, In memory of Ira & Paul MartinNancy MartinTom & Carol MaschalDrs. Mauriello & OrfanJohn & Anne MaysakVivian MichaelC. David & Barbara L. MillerCarolyn MillerThe Reverend Dr. & Mrs.

Raymond T. MorelandMr. & Mrs. Frank P. MorriseyFlorence M. MurdockEdwin L. & Joyce K. NighMarie E. NowakowskiKent N. OliverIngjerd OmdahlOneNet PPO colleagues of Chris

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In memory of Earl J. SchulzeElizabeth Schulze, In memory of Marie McIntyreJon & Sandy ScottWilliam Seabrook & Gay

LudingtonDale & Carolyn SeburnDavid Shorey, In memory of Adelia Marie McIntyreWilber T. Soulis

Betty Earkin Stith, In memory of Marie McIntyreMichael & Jeanne StonerDeborah & Holly Stotelmyer Dr. & Mrs. Robert S. StrauchDrs. Kelli & Al StraussRobert & Sara Sweeney, In memory of Jean S. ZimmermanMartin TashgyEleanor ThomasMr. & Mrs. Joseph TischerGeorge A. Tompkins, Jr.Ms. Amy TozziDr. Ann TramontanaJohn & Joan TreadwayMr. & Mrs. Samuel TuckerJames D. VaughnMr. & Mrs. Robert E. VidoniMr. & Mrs. James VinkeDr. David H. WallaceSusan WarrenfeltzWayne WellsMary L. WetzelMrs. Helen WingertPhyllis A. WisherdCarol Yost

INDIVIDUAL FRIENDS($50 TO $99)Mr. & Mrs. Louis AhaltMrs. Thomas AllanVirginia L. AltmanDominic Ambrosi & Dale SteinAnonymousMarian AuerBeth BatdorfMr. & Mrs. Donovan Beachley, Jr.Richard & Susan BellEdwina BernatMary M. BlackDeidre BlackwoodGerard L. BlakeW. Robert BloyerTodd & Judy BoltonMr. & Mrs. Anthony F. BrittiAllen & Elizabeth BrownMr. & Mrs. James BrownSusan & Wally BrubakerCarol BrunnerNancy BryanLouise F. BuccoMr. & Mrs. Tom BuckusStanley & Janice BurkholderMr. G. Richard BurnsMr. & Mrs. Wayne ByersRobert & Jane ChambersEmile & Jeannine CharestArlene ClendenningGerald & Lieba Cohen, In honor of Amy & Bob KersteinMartha & Jose CoŕdovaLinda CottrillMr. & Mrs. Philip P. CoxMr. & Mrs. Roger T. CraigJohn CrawfordLinda DanisJeanne & Malcolm DavisRobert D. & Karla DavisMichael & Ginny Delaney


Mr. William Dosch, Jr.Brenda K. DuffyAndrew & Maria DurelliJudith EardleyGerald C. Eckert, In memory of Abbud DahburaMary EdgeMary Lou Edwards, In memory of Marie McIntryeSheila EdwardsAndrea ErnestMs. Ruth Ann EvansJack Farrell & Nancy ColburnJoan FellMr. & Mrs. Michael E. FlurieThe Honorable & Mrs. Ralph FranceTerri FreiheitRobert FrucellaDr. & Mrs. Carl J. GalliganJanice GantzDrs. Elizabeth & Robert GeorgeJean B. Goodnight, In memory of J. Carroll GoodnightMr. & Mrs. Richard M. GreenwaldJean HamiltonDave & Donna HankinsonDavid & Donna HanlinDon & Kathryn HenryTodd & Katie HersheyKen & Marsha HigleyBarbara Irvine & Sylvia Andrae, In memory of their mother Ethel

B. Irvine, a longtime active supporter of the MSO

Elizabeth Johns & Don EvasonMr. Kenneth JohnsonMaurice F. JohnstonKarlen KetoJay KochMarty Koenig, In memory of Marie McIntyreGeorge & June Kourpias, In memory of Marie McIntyreLois E. KuhnLiesel KulickJohn & Cassandra LatimerEd & Chris LaneJoseph Lovinsky, In memory of Adelia M. McIntyreEmory G. Lowe, Jr.Tina McCoyPeter McKinney, In honor of Henry & Mary

McKinneyAnne MaconJoseph MarschnerRoberta J. MatonakMr. Randy MazzeoLowell & Susan MichaelTheresa Trail Michel, In honor of Vicki Willman &

Susan WertMichael & Susan Miller, In memory of Marie McIntyreThomas W. MillerDon & Sue Munson, In memory of Frances MachenMary & Amy MyersMark & Keely Neubauer

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McIntyreJon & Linda ShadeEloise Shaffer, In honor of Andrew T. Kipe, CEO,

Louisville OrchestraJackie & Lynn ShawMichael & Linda ShelbertWin & Pam ShermanJudith A. ShipleyDwight & Linda ShookWayne SkinnerMr. & Mrs. Donald SliferJoyce A. SnurrJoseph & Elizabeth Sokol, Sr.Steve & Sheri SpechtJim StemmleMrs. Barbara StineLee & Patricia StineConnie & W. Robert StrunkDavid M. TysonCarolyn & John Van Dyck, In memory of Adelia Marie

McIntyreFrank & Annette van HilstHerman S. WassShirley WeisbeckerMonika WertmanEileen W. WigginsPearl WillmanBill & Molly Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Allan WindleJohn & Earleen WisemanSharon WoodCarolyn Zwior

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& Fine Arts Fund, A fund of the Community Foundation of Washington County, MD

CitiCity of HagerstownFirstEnergy Foundation on behalf

of Potomac EdisonThe Alice Virginia and David W.

Fletcher Foundation, Inc.Hagerstown-Washington County

Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc.

The Herald-Mail Company / Herald-Mail Media

Jericho Productions, Inc.Martin Storage Co., Inc. / Allied

Van LinesMaryland State Arts CouncilMaryland State Highway

AdministrationMaryland Symphony Orchestra

GuildThe PNC Foundation Potomac EdisonSpringHill Suites by Marriott

HagerstownSusquehanna BankYoungblood StudiosThe Maryland Symphony Orchestra Waltersdorf Henson Endowment

FundWashington County Board of

County Commissioners

CORPORATE GOLD BATON($5,000 TO $7,499)18 Visions DesignMichael G. Callas Charitable TrustElectromet CorporationAnn and Gordon Getty FoundationHagerstown Community CollegeThe Hamilton Family Foundation,

Inc.The M&T Charitable Foundation,

Inc.Meritus HealthPremier Catering by Bagel-LisiousVolvo

CORPORATE SILVER BATON($3,000 TO $4,999)The Hershey-Fitzsimmons Group,

RBC Wealth ManagementMercedes-Benz of HagerstownAlbert E. & Naomi B. Sinnisen

FoundationWashington County Gaming

CommissionWashington County Gives

Matching GrantWashington County Sheriff ’s

Department

CORPORATE CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

($1,250 TO $2,999)Amica Companies FoundationAssociated Radiologists, P.A. and

Diagnostic Imaging Services, LLCBulls & Bears, Bowman HospitalityPaul Crampton Contractors, Inc.Delaplaine Foundation, Inc.Ellsworth Electric, Inc.Harry Browne’s Restaurant,

Annapolis, MDHill CountryLeiters’ Fine Catering, Inc.Main Line BroadcastingManitowoc CraneMarshfield AssociatesMaryland Symphony Orchestra

Guild, In memory of Wilda R. GiftMercersburg PrintingMiddletown Valley BankNorthwestern Mutual Financial

Network, Mr. Edward H. LoughOutdoor Express RVRider Jet CenterRidgerunner PublishingThe Rotary Club of Hagerstown

Charitable Foundation, Inc.The Rotary Club of Long Meadows

Foundation, Inc.Sharrett Auto StoresTiger’s Eye Benefits Consulting, Ted

& Sandy ReederWashington County Arts CouncilWPS, Inc.

CORPORATE PATRONS($500 TO $1,249)American Legion Clopper-Michael

Post No. 10 American Legion Auxiliary Unit

# 10 Sons of the American Legion Squadron #10

Audiology Services, LLCThe Blue Goose Fresh Market &

BakeryDSL Sound, Inc.Ewing Oil Co., Inc.Exchange Club of AntietamInnovative IncorporatedMaryland Symphony Orchestra

Horn SectionPlamondon Hospitality PartnerThe Rotary Club of Hagerstown -

Contributions CommitteeRotary Club of Hagerstown

Sunrise Foundation, Inc.Saul Ewing LLPSchmankerl Stube Bavarian

RestaurantSheetz, Inc.Sun Air InternationalVideo WestWAI GlobalWantz DistributorsWhat’s NXT, LLC

FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY


The Maryland Symphony Orchestra wishes to thank

the board and the staff of the Maryland Theatre for their partnership over

the last 32 years. The MSO is looking forward to continuing to work

together to bring the best of classical and popular symphonic music to the

four-state area.

Thank You!

The Maryland Theatre

21 S. Potomac StreetHagerstown, MD 21740

301-790-3500www.MDTheatre.org

Theatre Staff:Jessica Green,

Executive Director

Angel Myers, Operations Administrator

Teri Case, Box Office Manager

Mike Fletchinger, Maintenance Manager

Command Performances

Hagerstown, Maryland

at Saint James School

301-733-9330 www.stjames.edu

Award-winning Fine Arts program includes:

Instrumental instruction

Professional music instructors

Instrumental ensembles

35-voice Chapel Choir

Fine Arts curriculum

Drama program

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At Saint James School Hagerstown, MD

to benefit The MSO

TENNIS TOURNAMENT

REGISTERTODAY!

Player registration is available by calling the MSO office at 301.797.4000 or online at www.marylandsymphony.org

June 6 & 7, 2015


FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY

CORPORATE BENEFACTORS($250 TO $499)AC&T Co., Inc.R. Bruce Carson JewelersDivelbiss & WilkinsonFirst United Bank & TrustHagerstown REACT C-22Howard’s Art Supplies & FramesHudson House Galleries, Inc.Keller Stonebraker Insurance, Inc.Music & ArtsPNC BankRoad Runner Services, LLCThe Westin, Annapolis, MDYNO Catering

CORPORATE ASSOCIATES($100 TO $249)B.P. Lesky Distributing, Inc.County CommuterDivelbiss & Wilkinson, In memory of Bud DahburaDone by Doug Handyman ServicesHagerstown Furniture Outlet, Inc.The Home Depot HagerstownM.S. Johnston CompanyLowes of HagerstownMaryland Bankers Association, Inc., In memory of Abbud S. DahburaThe Maryland TheatreRocky Gap Lodge & Golf ResortSnavely’s Garden Corner, Inc.Spichers Appliances, Electronics &

Security

Weinberg Center for the ArtsWertman Photography

CORPORATE FRIENDS($50 TO $99)Café del SolIngram’s Men’s ShopJust For Dogs, Inc.Longmeadow Eyecare, Inc.Longmeadow Wine & Liquors, Inc.The Law Firm of Paley, Rothman,

Goldstein, Rosenburg, Eig and Cooper, Chartered,

In memory of Marie McIntyreThe Potomac Bead CompanyRed Heifer Winery

Note: While we make every effort to be accurate and thorough, it is possible that we may have accidentally omitted or misspelled a name. Please contact us at 301.797.4000 with any additions or corrections. Only contributions of $50 or more are recognized.

the MaryLand syMPhony orChestra

endowMent fund &heritage endowers’ soCiety

The MSO’s commitment to artistic excellence is well-known, but such a commitment depends on the generosity of community-minded individuals and organizations who gladly shoulder the responsibility of promoting, preserving and supporting the Symphony’s mission. Many MSO patrons have demonstrated this kind of strong personal commitment to our artistic, educational and community-based initiatives through contributions to the MSO Endowment Fund. However, the need for additional endowment support remains. Continuing to build the MSO’s endowment ensures the Symphony’s continued quality and stability.

To recognize contributors of estate planning gifts such as bequests, trusts, charitable gift annuities or insurance policies, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra provides membership in the Heritage Endowers’ Society. Members of the Society are extraordinary contributors, demonstrating their devotion to symphonic music and the MSO thereby guaranteeing the future of both.

Estate planning is often put off until sometime “in the future.” Through careful planning today members of the Heritage Endowers’ Society have the satisfaction of knowing that their own interests and wishes have helped to shape the MSO’s future, and that tomorrow’s audiences will benefit from today’s generosity.

Contributions to the MSO Endowment Fund, as are all gifts to the MSO, are tax-deductible as allowed by federal law. We invite you to make a contribution to the MSO Endowment Fund or become a member of the Heritage Endowers’ Society by including a provision for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in your estate plan. Please visit with your financial or legal advisors or call the MSO’s Director of Development Vicki Willman at 301-797-4000 for more information.

Invest In the future of your orchestra. the returns are Immeasurable!

DISTINGUISHED ENDOWERS($100,000 and over)The Estate of Alberta G. AlcornMr. & Mrs. Bennett RubinDoris H. ThompsonThe Estate of Jay L. TroxellThe John M. Waltersdorf FamilyWashington County Board of

County Commissioners

PRINCIPAL ENDOWERS($50,000 to $99,999)The State of MarylandUSF & G Foundation, Inc.

PRIME ENDOWERS($25,000 to $49,999)First National Bank of MarylandThe Estate of Florence Hill GraffMr. & Mrs. Jerry E. MasseyMr. & Mrs. Dominick J. PeriniaMr. & Mrs. Charles L. PitzerMrs. Agnita M. SchreiberSusquehanna Bank (formerly

Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust)

MAJOR ENDOWERS($10,000 TO $24,999)The Honorable & Mrs. W. Kennedy

Boone, III

C&P Telephone Company of Maryland

Ewing Oil CompanyHagerstown Trust CompanyC. William Hetzer, Inc.Harvey H. Heyser, Jr.The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott

FoundationJohn H. Hornbaker, Jr., M.D.The Estate of Mr. & Mrs. John V.

Jamison, IIIMaryland Metals, Inc.Maryland National Foundation, Inc.Maryland Symphony Orchestra

GuildMr. & Mrs. Spence W. Perry

Jim & Georgia PiernéRust-Oleum CorporationJames SchurzMrs. Dorothy Slocum WebsterMr. & Mrs. William P. Young, Jr.

SPECIAL ENDOWERS($5,000 TO $9,999)Mr. & Mrs. John M. BaerMr. & Mrs. Allen J. ClopperConservit, Inc.Coopers & LybrandThe Samuel Freeman Charitable

TrustGrove WorldwideDr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs

MaryLand syMPhony orChestra endowMent fundFor contributions through June 30, 2014.


MSO ENDOWMENT FUND & HERITAGE ENDOWERS’ SOCIETY

Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. KenneyMr. & Mrs. James E. MarsdenLeslie W. MillsDr. & Mrs. Robert NitzellSamuel G. Reel, Jr.William J. & Selina A. ReuterDr. & Mrs. Joel L. RosenthalSovran Bank / Nations BankMr. & Mrs. Joseph C. TischerMrs. Mary B. Welty

PATRON ENDOWERS($1,000 TO $4,999)Dr. & Mrs. A.F. AbdullahMr. & Mrs. Jack B. ByersHermione H. BrewerMichael G. CallasDr. & Mrs. Jack CareyMrs. David Cushwa, IIIMary & Bud DahburaDeloitte & ToucheDr. & Mrs. Breese DickinsonMr. & Mrs. Merle ElliottMrs. Patricia EndersMr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Erck, IIIG.A. Stewart Enterprises, Inc.

Dr. & Mrs. Carl J. GalliganMr. & Mrs. William H. Gelbach, Jr.Mrs. Lucinda S. GrunbergMr. & Mrs. Donald R. Harsh, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. John Hershey, Jr.IBM CorporationMr. & Mrs. Howard S. KaylorRenee & Fred KramerDr. & Mrs. Edward M. MaconMr. & Mrs. James E. MarsdenMr. & Mrs. J. Alvin MasseyMrs. Victor D. MillerThe Noxell Foundation, Inc.Packaging Services of Maryland, Inc.Mrs. Theron Rinehart In memory of Theron RinehartPearl & Odell H. RosenMr. & Mrs. Ralph L. SharrettStatton Furniture Manufacturing Co.Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Z. SulchekMrs. Agnes SupernavageMr. & Mrs. Barry TuckwellBruce Van WykVenice InnMr & Mrs. Robert A. WantzWeinberg & Green

Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. WeeksCaptain J. Maury WerthMr. & Mrs. Richard T. Whisner

ASSOCIATE ENDOWERS(under $1,000)Mrs. Jack BeachleyMrs. Sara BockDr. Edward W. Ditto, IIIMr. & Mrs. Frank D. Carden, Jr.Toni & Lee CrawfordDr. Robert L. JosephsMorton & Sophia Macht

Foundation, Inc.Maryland Symphony Orchestra Guild

In memory of Rosemary G. Vocke by Peter & Kathleen Clouthier

Volvo (formerly Mack Trucks, Inc.)Paul C. & Margaret K. Massey

Children (Curt, Jerry, Judy and Alvin) In memory of Ralph Sharrett

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Meyer

HERITAGE ENDOWERS’ SOCIETY(For Donors who wish to make gifts or pledges through estate planning; such as insurance policies, wills or trusts)Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. HoseMr. & Mrs. John V. Jamison, IIIMr. & Mrs. James E. MarsdenMr. & Mrs. Alan J. NoiaDr. & Mrs. Carl D. PedersenMr. & Mrs. Spence W. PerryMr. & Mrs. James G. PiernéMrs. Theron RinehartDr. & Mrs. Hugh J. TaltonDoris H. ThompsonMr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Tischer

angeL tiCket ContriButors MSO Angels have purchased gift tickets for members of community organizations

who otherwise might not be able to attend concerts.

Helen R. BeairMr. & Mrs. Anthony F. BrittiLouise F. BuccoCharles W. ClarkJanice GantzDr. Catherine GiraDr. Florence GrantKaren & Scott HamiltonBarbara & Tom HendersonElizabeth Johns & Don EvasonMr. & Mrs. George Kalin,

In memory of Hermione H. BrewerMr. & Mrs. James R. KingMr. & Mrs. Robert LariveeJudith & John LilgaMr. & Mrs. Jan A. LiwskiMr. & Mrs. Edward H. LoughElla C. MoseWilliam O’Toole & Catherine BodinTimothy Rahn & Nancy HughesKim Reno

Marilyn A. RossThe Rotary Club of Long Meadows

Foundation, Inc.Penelope & George SmithDr. & Mrs. Thomas M. TarpleyRay Teel & Barbara LawverDr. David H. WallaceTinker & Pat Williamson

In memory of Marilyn Jonnes, Susan Bennett, Danny Boyle, Virginia Christensen, Tom & Nancy Creed, Stewart & Carol Creelman, John & Janet Egelhofer, David & Roberta Gang, Shari Guyer, William & Marsha Harbison, Robert Hoyle, Carol Hutter, Lynn & Laura Klock, Karen LaRocque, Kathleen Lovell, Martha McAdams, Jim & Ardie McEathron, Dick Melikian, Richard Mickey, Eileen Murray, Sandra Nortier, Judie O’Donnell, Stephan & Linda Cardillo Platzer, Kevin & Jane Rhodes, James Rosenthal & Halina Wiczyk, MaryEllen Scott, Michael & Lynn Sussman, C. David & Jean Trader, Renato Wendel, and Masako Yanagita

Jim & Mindy MarsdenMSO Heritage Endowers’ Society Members

Planned gifts to the Maryland Symphony Orchestra allow donors the unique opportunity to significantly impact the orchestra they love; ensuring concerts performances and music education programs in our community for years to come – all while enjoying numerous tax advantages and other benefits.

Talk to your legal or financial advisor, or contact MSO Director of Development Vicki Willman, 301.797.4000

Through remembering the MSO in their estate plan Mindy & Jim have given the gift of music to future generations

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aCknowLedgeMentsThe Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Directors, Staff and Musicians

gratefully acknowledge the donation of services and assistance from the following individuals and organizations.

SALUTE TO INDEPENDENCEAC&T Co., Inc.Atlantic Coast ChartersAntietam Cable Television, Inc.Antietam National Battlefield

(ANB)Antietam National Battlefield

VolunteersBay FireworksPieter BickfordBoard of County Commissioners

Washington County, MDStephen BullaEllsworth Electric, Inc.Exchange Club of AntietamFriends of the MSOHagerstown REACT C-22Hagerstown-Washington County

Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc.Herald-Mail MediaGunnery Sergeant Mark JenkinsJericho Productions, Inc.Thomas Jones, Incident

Commander/Acting Chief Ranger, ANB

James KesslerLeiters’ Fine Catering, Inc.Lost Creek MotorsportsMHA Audio, Inc.Manitowoc CranesMartin Storage Co.Maryland Correctional Training

CenterMaryland National Guard Salute

BatteryMaryland State Highway

AdministrationMSO Stage Crew: Dwayne Bovey,

Ronald Scott & Steven TylerStephen MilesNational Park Service Rangers, Staff

& VolunteersOutdoor Express RV

Plamondon Enterprises, Inc. T/A Roy Rogers Restaurant

PNCPotomac EdisonMajor Michelle A. RakersSharpsburg Area Emergency

Medical Services (CO-19)Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire

Company (CO-1)SpringHill Suites by Marriott,

HagerstownTed’s Rent It CenterSusan Trail, Superintendent, ANBRob TudorUnited Rentals, Frederick“The President’s Own,” The United

States Marine BandWantz Distributors, Inc.Washington County Board of

EducationWashington County CommuterWashington County Sheriff ’s OfficeYoungblood Studios

MASTERWORKS & SPECIAL CONCERTS

Beth Sholom Congregation, Frederick, MD

CitiEastcoast Hardwood Veneers, Inc.Patty EndersFrederick Community CollegeFriends of the MSOMHA Audio, Inc.Maryland TheatreMaryland Theatre UshersOmega MediaWashington County Museum of

Fine ArtsWeill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSAllegany Arts Council

Barbara Ingram School for the ArtsBoard of Education of Washington

CountyFriends of the MSOHagerstown Community CollegeRob HovermaleShenandoah UniversityStephen MilesSt. John’s Evangelical Lutheran

ChurchSmithsburg High SchoolSmithsburg High School Jazz BandSmithsburg High School OrchestraSouth Hagerstown High SchoolWashington County Free LibraryPatricia Wishard

OFFICE SUPPORTFriends of the MSOImpactInnovative Incorporated

MEDIA SPONSORSAntietam Cable TelevisionThe Herald-Mail Company /

Herald-Mail MediaMain Line Broadcasting

MSO EVENTSAntietam National BattlefieldBulls & BearsDSL Sound, Inc.Ellsworth Electric, Inc.Friends of the MSOFountain Head Country ClubThe Gourmet GoatLeiters’ Fine Catering, Inc.Maryland TheatreMercedes-Benz of HagerstownMercersburg PrintingPotomac EdisonPNCPremier Catering by Bagel-Lisious

28 South RestaurantWashington County Free LibraryWilliamsport Volunteer Fire & EMS

Banquet Hall

SEASON TICKETS SPONSORED BYAssociated Radiologist, P.A.

FREE STUDENT TICKETS SPONSORED BY

Music Director Elizabeth Schulze and Susquehanna Bank

PATRON TRANSPORTATION SPONSORED BY

Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Edward H. Lough

MSO “OFFICIAL HOTEL”SpringHill Suites by Marriott of

HagerstownCourtyard by Marriott of

Hagerstown

MSO “OFFICIAL MOVER”Martin Storage Co., Inc. / Allied

Van Lines

MSO “OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER”

Youngblood Studios

The Rotary Club of Hagerstown Contributions Committee

Mso MusiC sChoLarshiP

fund

honorary Board MeMBersDr. J. Emmet BurkeDr. Anton DahburaApril L. DowlerFrederica ErathJohn F. ErathPatricia F. EndersDr. J. Ramsay FarahDonald R. Harsh, Jr.Marjorie M. HobbsHoward S. KaylorAlan J. NoiaSamuel G. Reel, Jr.William J. ReuterDr. Joel L. Rosenthal

Dr. Hugh J. TaltonMarty TaltonCassandra WantzRichard T. Whisner

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant

cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal

agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

The arts are an important part of

any community. That’s why Citi is a

proud supporter of the Maryland

Symphony Orchestra and its Youth

Concerts. Thanks for giving us a

reason to applaud. Bravo.

Applause. Standing Ovation.

BRAVO!to the Maryland Symphony Orchestrafrom the Associates of Wells Fargo Advisors

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, Member SIPC, is a registered broker-dealer and a separate non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. ©2013 Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC 0813-00604 08/13

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