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55th Season2018 Summer Program

LAKESIDESYMPHONY

ORCHESTRA

WELCOME TO THE 2018 LSO SEASON This year marks the 55th season of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra (LSO), a celebrated tradition of our community and a key component of our Arts programming.

Throughout 2017, Lakeside spent considerable time planning for our future through the Master Planning process and Programming Assessment. With all the progress our community achieved this past year, we now fi nd ourselves on the doorstep of a completed Master Plan and a collective commitment to further strengthen our Chautauqua program.

As part of an ongoing programming transition, LSO Conductor and Music Director, Robert Cronquist, has departed his position after 47 years of faithful service. We are immensely grateful for his decades of leadership and hope you will join us in celebrating his remarkable legacy this summer.

As we embark on a national-level search for our future conductor, Lakeside has named John Gordon Ross, current member of the orchestra, to serve as Interim Music Director this season.

As part of a formal process to evaluate potential conductors and select a successor, we will welcome fi ve top-notch conductors, including Ross, to the Hoover stage, all of whom applied for the LSO Conductor and Music Director commencing in 2019. In addition to the fi ve candidates, Lakesider Max Rabinovitsj will guest conduct and serve as soloist for one concert. Rabinovitsj will dedicate the concert on Friday, July 27 to the late Neil Glaser, a longtime Lakesider and signifi cant contributor to the Arts pillar for many years.

We are also excited to present our ballet concert with a new company, Verb Ballets out of Shaker Heights, OH. After a long and fruitful relationship with Pointe of Departure Ballet, they have taken their company to San Jose, CA, and we wish them the best of luck as they grow and enhance their productions. Verb Ballets will perform on Saturday, Aug. 4 and is sure to deliver a bold and artistic performance that will underscore the direction we hope to take our programming.

We are so pleased you are joining us in this transition year for the LSO, and we look forward to your feedback of our guest conductors, which you can provide by clicking on the survey button at www.lakesideohio.com/symphony.

Yours in the spirit of Chautauqua,Kevin Sibbring, Lakeside Chautauqua, President/CEO

Guest Conductors on pages...

Table of Contents3-4 Wednesday, July 25Opening Night, “Home Movies”

Guest Conductor: John Gordon Ross

5-6 Friday, July 27“Mendelssohn & Beethoven” ft. Milana Strezeva & Max Rabinovitsj

Guest Conductor: Max Rabinovitsj

7-8 Wednesday, Aug. 1“Musical Postcards” ft. Jinjoo Cho

Guest Conductor: Matthew Kraemer

9-10 Saturday, Aug. 4Concert with Verb Ballets

Guest Conductor: John Gordon Ross

11-12 Tuesday, Aug. 7“Tales by the Seaside” ft. Isabelle Durrenberger

Guest Conductor: Daniel Meyer

13-14 Friday, Aug. 10“Adventureland”ft. Andrew Tyson

Guest Conductor: Bruce Anthony Kiesling

15-16 Tuesday, Aug. 14Closing Night ft. Dror Biran

Guest Conductor: Michael Chertock

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Guest Conductors on pages...

1st ViolinJim Braid, ConcertmasterDana MaderTom SiebergGreg MorrisSantino Ellis-PerezAlicia TremmelLisa NielsenChristopher ReedPamela FioccaElizabeth RothenbuschYalira Machado Montejo Julia ErhardKatherine AndersonNick NaegelDavid Kempers

2nd Violin*Cecilia JohnsonRebecca HollidayTeresa HargroveCynthia KreinerMichael SiebergLori BrightJanet KlickmanBill KlickmanSerge KraussMaggie WilliamsSharon Bartley

Viola*Colleen BraidKeith HollidayLinda DavisAnn SchnappLara DudackJim FroelichPeter Ayuso

Cello*Allison Braid OlsenCharles GriffithDaniel HildSally RossMiles RichardsonEdward SzaboAlice Lloyd

Bass*Richard AlleshouseKarl OlsenAaron KeasterEric AlleshouseAnn GilbertDavid Lenigan

Flute*Amy HeritageConnie Alleshouse

PiccoloVirginia Steiger

Oboe/English Horn*Lorraine DorseyEmily Van NimanJenny MorrisAshley Noble

Clarinet*Eugene WillliamsJohn KurokawaGunnar HirthePatrick Fansler

Bassoon*Julia Budd StuneckChien Hui HaynesLaura Maulbetsch

Horn *Charles Payette*Kathy WidlarMarlene FordRobert GilbertJonas Thoms

Trumpet*Paul JacksonPeter MaderHeather ZweifelJack BrndiarDan Golando

Trombone *Robert FordJohn Gordon RossSebastian BellSam Chen

Tuba*Steve Darling

Percussion*Liz ProcopioGeorge KiteleyBruce GoldenAndrew PongraczKyle ThomasWill KanLinda Allen

Timpani *Jerry Noble

Piano*Linda Allen

Harp *Katherine Bracy

Orchestra ManagerShirley Stary

Personnel ManagerJerry Noble

LibrarianLinda Allen

*Principal

Lakeside Symphony Orchestra 2018

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Additional Events• Pre-Concert Talk at 7:15 p.m. in Hoover Auditorium• Post-show reception in the Hoover Auditorium lobby for guests to meet Ross and welcome back the symphony

“Home Movies”Wednesday, July 25 Interim Music Director John Gordon RossOpening Night & Reception

“Home Movies”

About RossJohn Gordon Ross is serving as Interim Music Director of the LSO this season. He has been the 2nd Trombonist

for the orchestra since 1978 and is grateful to Lakeside as the place where he met his wife of 37 years, Sarah Rocco

Ross, who has also performed with the LSO for more than 40 years.

He recently retired from serving as conductor of the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory, N.C., a position he

has held since 1991. Ross is a faculty member at Lenoir-Rhyne University where he teaches music history and

instrumental conducting.

Since the late 1990s, Ross has served in a variety of roles as an adjunct faculty member at Lenoir-Rhyne

University, including portions of two semesters where he served as guest conductor of their choral ensembles. He

is an experienced clinician, having conducted several regional festival orchestras in Tennessee and North Carolina

and adjudicated NCMEA Orchestra Festivals in both Eastern and Western districts. He has also led the Cleveland,

Forsyth and Guilford All-County Orchestras. Ross spent two summers conducting the orchestra at the Tennessee

Governors School and two seasons guest conducting at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro where he led both

student orchestras in concerts.

For full bios and concert info, visit www.lakesideohio.com/symphony.

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Program“Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124 “ Ludwig van Beethoven

“Waltz” from “The Sleeping Beauty” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Letter from Home” Aaron Copland

“Gabriel’s Oboe” from “The Mission” Ennio Morricone (arr. by Robert Longfield)

Lorraine Dorsey, Oboe

“Finlandia” Jean Sibelius

Intermission

“March” from “1941” John Williams

Selections from Fiddler on the Roof for Solo Violin & Orchestra Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (arr. by and with original cadenzas by John Williams)

James Braid, Violin

Selections from “The Wizard of Oz” Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (arr. by Chuck Sayre)

“Star Trek: Through the Years” Various, arr. by Calvin Custer

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“Mendelssohn & Beethoven”Friday, July 27Guest Conductor Max RabinovitsjSoloists: Milana Strezeva, Piano Max RabinovitsjIn Memory of Neil Glaser

Additional Events• Post-show reception in the Hoover Auditorium lobby for guests to meet Rabinovitsj and Strezeva

About Rabinovitsj & StrezevaMax Rabinovitsj attended the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music in Belgium and is a graduate of The Curtis

Institute of Music. He has been the concertmaster of the Ottawa Philharmonic in Ontario, Cincinnati Symphony,

Saint Louis Symphony, Nice Orchestra in France and the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Portugal. He was also the

Associate Conductor of the Nice and Gulbenkian Orchestras.

Rabinovitsj made his debut as a solo recitalist in New York City’s Lincoln Center and performed Bach’s “Double

Concerto” in Carnegie Hall with Isaac Stern. As a conductor, he became known for his interpretations of the classical

repertoire and his work with youth orchestras.

Rabinovitsj will solo on the violin for the Mendelssohn “Concerto” with pianist

Milana Strezeva. The Moldovan-American pianist was only 11 years old when

she began playing chamber music with her clarinetist father and her mother,

a renowned soprano. Her love for family collaboration eventually grew into a

passionate advocacy of vocal and instrumental chamber music.

Strezeva is a founding member of the award-winning Manhattan Piano Trio,

one of the most creative and dynamic young ensembles in America. She has

performed with the trio in more than 30 states, Australia, South Africa and

Italy.


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Program Overture to “The Barber of Seville” Gioachino Rossini

“Concerto for Violin and Piano in D minor” (Original Version) Felix Mendelssohn

1. Allegro 2. Adagio 3. Allegro molto

Max Rabinovitsj, Violin and Milana Strezeva, Piano

Intermission

“Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93” Ludwig van Beethoven

1. Allegro vivace con brio 2. Allegretto scherzando 3. Tempo di menuetto 4. Allegro vivace

This concert is being presented in memory of Neil Glaser, a longtime Lakesider and significant contributor to arts and programming for years. We are honored to remember him and his many

contributions with this Lakeside Symphony Orchestra performance.

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“Musical Postcards”Wednesday, Aug. 1 Guest Conductor Matthew KraemerSoloist, Jinjoo Cho, Violin

Additional Events • Meet the Conductor Forum at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 31 in Chautauqua Hall• Symphony Pre-Concert Talk at 7:15 p.m. in Hoover Auditorium• Post-show reception in the Hoover Auditorium lobby for guests to meet Kraemer and Cho• Matthew Kraemer is a candidate for the 2019 LSO Conductor and Music Director. We encourage you to

please share your thoughts on his performance by completing the survey at www.lakesideohio.com/symphony.

About Kraemer & ChoFollowing an international search, Matthew Kraemer was appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor of

the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra in 2015. He also serves as Music Director of the Butler County Symphony and

recently completed his fi fth and fi nal season as Music Director of the Erie Chamber Orchestra.

Equally at home in the opera pit, his credits include fully-staged productions of The Magic Flute, The Barber of

Seville, Madame Butterfl y and La Traviata, to name a few. As a frequent collaborator with Broadway superstar

Idina Menzel, he has served as conductor for many of her symphony engagements.

The LSO’s third performance of the summer will also include violinist Jinjoo Cho. A native of Seoul, South Korea,

Cho moved to Cleveland at the age of 14 to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

She is a gold medalist of the 2014 Ninth Quadrennial International Violin

Competition of Indianapolis, the fi rst prize and orchestra award-winner of the 2010

Buenos Aires International Violin Competition, and fi rst grand prize at the Alice

Schoenfeld International String Competition.


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Program Overture to “La Vie Parisienne” Jacques Offenbach (arr. by Antal Dorati)

“Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47” Jean Sibelius

1. Allegro moderato 2. Adagio di molto 3. Allegro ma non tanto

Jinjoo Cho, Violin

Intermission

“Fountains of Rome” Ottorino Respighi

1. Fountain of the Giulia Valley at Dawn 2. The Triton Fountain in the Morning 3. The Trevi Fountain at Noon 4. The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset

“The Music of Astor Piazzolla” Astor Piazzolla (arr. by Carlos Franzetti) 1. La Muerte del Angel 2. Oblivion 3. Libertango

“West Side Story Overture” Leonard Bernstein (orch. by Maurice Peress)

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Concert with Verb BalletsSaturday, Aug. 4 Interim Music Director John Gordon RossSupported by the Iva M. Clark Memorial Endowment

Additional Events• Meet the Conductor Forum at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2 in Chautauqua Hall• John Gordon Ross is a candidate for the 2019 LSO Conductor and Music Director. We encourage you to please

share your thoughts on his performance by completing the survey at www.lakesideohio.com/symphony.

About Verb BalletsVerb Ballets, a contemporary ballet company, presents dynamic shows through bold artistry, unique styles and

technical excellence. Under the direction of Dr. Margaret Carlson, Producing Artistic

Director, and Richard Dickinson, Associate Director, the company will present a show

that ignites passion with the energy, beauty and athleticism of dance.

Verb Ballets cultivates dance appreciation and nurtures wellness through movement

in community dance classes, school residencies, senior outreach, library programs,

master classes and college course partnerships.

John Gordon Ross is serving as Interim Music Director of the LSO this season. He

has been the 2nd Trombonist for the orchestra since 1978 and is grateful to Lakeside as the place where he met his

wife of 37 years, Sarah Rocco Ross, who has also performed with the LSO for more than 40 years.

He recently retired from serving as conductor of the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory, N.C., a position he

has held since 1991. Ross is a faculty member at Lenoir-Rhyne University where he teaches music history and

instrumental conducting.


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Program Broken Bridges (2016)

Choreography: Michael EscovedoMusic: “Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a” Dmitri Shostakovich (orch. by Rudolf Barshai)

Original Lighting: Trad A. Burns Costume Concept: Shawna Hinton

In honor of Bridgett Escovedo 1932-2016

Intermission

Don Quixote Grand Pas de Deux (1869) Original Choreography: Marius Petipa

Music: Ludwig Minkus Staged by: Laura Alonso Lighting Design: John Ebert Costume Concept: Margaret Carlson

Andante Sostenuto (1988) Choreography: Heinz Poll

Music: “Adagio molto sostenuto” from “Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40” Felix Mendelssohn Original Lighting Design: Thomas R. Skelton

Lighting Adaptation: Trad A. Burns Costume Design: A. Christina Giannini Costume Adaptation: Janet Bolick

Tarantella (2005) Choreography: Pamela Pribisco

Music: “Grand Tarantella for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 67” Louis Moreau Gottschalk (orch. by H. Kay) Lighting Design: Trad A. Burns Costume Design: Janet Bolick

Intermission

Aposiopesis (2001) Choreography: Charles Anderson

Music: Michael Nyman Lighting Design: Patrick Hadjuk Lighting Adaptation: Trad A. Burns

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Special Thanks• The Mattlin-Hyde Piano Company has provided a generous donation of the Kawai piano for tonight’s

performance

“Tales by the Seaside”Tuesday, Aug. 7 Guest Conductor Daniel MeyerSoloist, Isabelle Durrenberger, Violin

Additional Events• Meet the Conductor Forum at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5 in Chautauqua Hall• Symphony Pre-Concert Talk at 7:15 p.m. in Hoover Auditorium• Post-show reception in the Hoover Auditorium lobby for guests to meet Meyer and Durrenberger• Daniel Meyer is a candidate for the 2019 LSO Conductor and Music Director. We encourage you to please


“Tales by the Seaside”

About Meyer & DurrenbergerAs Music Director of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and Erie Philharmonic, Daniel Meyer has reinvigorated

orchestras with his innovative programs, engaging presence and keen musical intellect.

This past year, he returned to the Rochester Philharmonic, Portland Symphony and

debuted with Cleveland’s Blue Water Chamber Orchestra.

Upon the invitation of Mariss Jansons, Meyer served as Resident Conductor of

the Pittsburgh Symphony and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony. A

resident of Pittsburgh, Meyer is Artistic Director of the Westmoreland Symphony and

Director of Orchestral Activities at Duquesne University.

This performance will feature violinist Isabelle Durrenberger. A junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music,

Durrenberger was recently named the 2017 Payne Fund Prize Winner in the school’s Fall Concerto Competition,

which will provide her the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra.


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Program “The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26” Felix Mendelssohn

“Concerto for Violin in E-flat major, Op. 8, No. 5, RV 253” Antonio Vivaldi

1. Presto 2. Largo 3. Presto

Isabelle Durrenberger, Violin

“Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28” Camille Saint-Saëns

Isabelle Durrenberger, Violin

Selections from “The Little Mermaid” Alan Menken

Intermission

“Hands Across the Sea March” John Philip Sousa

Symphonic Scenario from “Victory at Sea” Richard Rodgers (arr. and adapted by Robert Russell Bennett)

Selections from “Scheherazade, Op. 35” Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

1. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship 2. The Festival at Baghdad 3. The Sea 4. The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock

Selections from “Pirates of the Caribbean” Hans Zimmer (arr. by Ted Ricketts)

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“Adventureland”Friday, Aug. 10 Guest Conductor Bruce Anthony KieslingSoloist, Andrew Tyson, Piano

Additional Events• Meet the Conductor Forum at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 9 in Chautauqua Hall• Symphony Pre-Concert Talk at 7:15 p.m. in Hoover Auditorium• Post-show reception in the Hoover Auditorium lobby for guests to meet Kiesling and Tyson• Bruce Anthony Kiesling is a candidate for the 2019 LSO Conductor and Music Director. We encourage you to

please share your thoughts on his performance by completing the survey at www.lakesideohio.com/symphony.

“Adventureland”

About Kiesling & TysonActive in a wide variety of music, Bruce Anthony Kiesling has a national profi le as a conductor and music educator

from coast to coast. His experience ranges from classical repertoire at Carnegie Hall to the stage of the Hollywood

Bowl conducting with Stevie Wonder and Latin superstars Juanes and Gloria Estefan.

His current Music Director positions include the Adrian Symphony in Michigan and the Sequoia Symphony

Orchestra in California. He is also Artistic Director and Conductor of the School of Orchestral Studies at the New

York Summer School of the Arts.

Currently, he conducts the University Orchestra and Opera at the University of California Santa Cruz and holds

graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Miami and the University of North Carolina

School of the Arts.

This performance will feature pianist Andrew Tyson. Hailed by BBC Radio 3

as “a real poet of the piano,” Tyson is emerging as a distinctive and important

new musical voice. He has performed at the Library of Congress, the National

Chopin Foundation, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Brevard Music

Festival, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Morgan Library and

Museum.


graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Miami and the University of North Carolina

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Program Overture to “Candide” Leonard Bernstein

“Danse Bacchanale” from “Samson and Delilah” Camille Saint-Saëns

“Rhapsody in Blue” George Gershwin (orch. by Ferde Grofé)

Andrew Tyson, Piano

Intermission

Excerpts from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” John Williams

Suite from “The Firebird Ballet” (1919) Igor Stravinsky

1. Introduction 2. Dance and Variation of the Firebird 3. Princesses’ Round 4. Infernal Dance of King Kastchei 5. Berceuse and Finale

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Closing ConcertTuesday, Aug. 14 Guest Conductor Michael ChertockSoloist, Dror Biran, Piano

Additional Events• Meet the Conductor Forum at 4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 12 in Chautauqua Hall• Symphony Pre-Concert Talk at 7:15 p.m. in Hoover Auditorium• Post-show reception in the Hoover Auditorium lobby for guests to meet Chertock and Biran• Michael Chertock is a candidate for the 2019 LSO Conductor and Music Director. We encourage you to please


Closing Concert

About Chertock & BiranMichael Chertock is the Music Director of the Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony and Chair of the Piano

Department at the College-Conservatory of Music. He also serves as the organist at the St. Barnabas Episcopal

Church in Montgomery, Ohio.

He has guest conducted the Columbus Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and Pops, State Symphony Orchestra of

Moscow and the Moscow Conservatory Orchestra.

This concert will feature pianist Dror Biran. Born in Israel, Biran is a top prize

winner of several national and international piano competitions. He is a

graduate of the Givataim Conservatory and The Rubin Academy of Music at

Tel-Aviv University.

He received his doctoral degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has

performed as a soloist with the Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTVE

Symphony Orchestra of Spain, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra and the Israel

Philharmonic Orchestra.


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Program“Festive Overture, Op. 96” Dmitri Shostakovich

“Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23” Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso 2. Andantino semplice 3. Allegro con fuoco

Dror Biran, Piano

Intermission

“Summerland” William Grant Still

“Night on Bald Mountain” Modeste Mussorgsky

Three Dance Episodes from “Rodeo” Aaron Copland

1. Buckaroo Holiday 2. Corral Nocturne 3. Hoedown

“America the Beautiful” Samuel Ward and Katherine Lee Bates (arr. by Michael Chertock)

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Why Copeland Oaks?John and Rev. Carol Topping moved to Copeland Oaks campus in 2012 after visiting other retirement communities throughout the northeast. “We couldn’t fi nd any place that beat Copeland. Copeland has it all and is a community of friends. It is just more loving and people really care here,” said Carol. She has turned the basement of their spacious villa into a design studio where Carol creates beautiful greeting cards and enjoys many artistic endeavors. When Carol is not in her villa studio, she can be found attending or teaching a myriad of classes like Watercolors, Ikebana or Photography at the Copeland Creativity Center.Copeland Creativity Center.

Keeping up with Carol- Ordained Methodist Minister

and Spiritual Director

- Known for her exquisite hand-made greeting cards

- Chair person for the Copeland Oaks Art Education Committee

- Won 1st Place in the Ohio LeadingAge Art Show for her Zentangle designs

- Loves learning and would return to school in a minute

Meet the Toppings and see what active lives you can lead at Copeland Oaks. Arrange for a visit by calling

330-938-6126.

Meet the Toppings and see what active lives you can lead at Copeland Oaks. at Copeland Oaks. Arrange for a visit by calling

330-938-6126.

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Special thanks to the PCHS Music Department

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equipment for the 2018 season.

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and Rod Mi l ler for the use of percussion

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RobertCronquist

Please join us in recognizing the hard work and tireless efforts of Robert Cronquist, who faithfully provided leadership to the LSO for nearly 50 years. Because of his devotion to the arts pillar at Lakeside, the LSO has remained a cherished tradition for more than fi ve decades. He was instrumental in starting the Arts Endowment at Lakeside and he has been a champion of Lakeside’s mission to nurture the mind and spirit through artistic experiences.

Cronquist came to Lakeside in 1970. As the Director of the Mansfi eld Symphony at that time, he heard that William Penny Hacker (the founder and fi rst conductor of the LSO) had left suddenly.

Cronquist took over the leadership of the LSO with a vision of reorganizing the orchestra and taking it from just a “festival” orchestra to a fully professional symphony in the broadest sense. He wanted to not only present orchestral concerts but also to expand the programming to include ballet, opera and oratorio — broadening the cultural experiences of the Lakeside audiences.

In his 47 years with the LSO, he did just that by presenting an annual ballet program, as well as opera and choral works featuring world class dancers and singers and internationally recognized artists.

A Lakeside LegacyLSO Conductor & Music Director

1971-2017

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