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Tuesday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

THE SHANGHAI QUARTETWeigang Li, Violin

Yi-Wen Jiang, ViolinHonggang Li, Viola

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Wu Man, pipa

Selections from China Song arr. Yi-Wen Jiang Yao Dance (b. 1963) Shepherd’s Song Harvest Celebration

Song of the Ch’in Zhou Long (b.1953)

Red Lantern, Quintet for Pipa and String Quartet Zhao Lin Based on Zhao Jiping’s film score, “Raise the Red Lantern” (b. 1973) 1. Prelude- Moonlight 2. Wandering 3. Love 4. Death 5. Epilogue

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String Quartet in D Major, K. 499 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegretto (1756-1791) Menuetto (Allegretto) Adagio Allegro

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An Evening of Sonic Discovery with Wu Man and the Shanghai QuartetThe pipa is a lute-like instrument with a history of more than two thousand years. During

the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. - 220 A.D.), instruments with long, straight-necks and round resonators with snakeskin or wooden soundboards were played with a forward and backward plucking motion that sounded like “pi” and “pa” to fanciful ears. Hence, all plucked instruments in ancient times were called “pipa.” During the Tang dynasty, by way of Centre Asia, the introduction of a crooked neck lute with a pear-shaped body contributed to the pipa’s evolution. Today’s instrument consists of twenty-six frets and six ledges arranged as stops and its four strings are tuned respectively to A, D, E, A. The pipa’s many left and right hand fingering techniques, rich tonal qualities and resonant timber give its music expres-siveness and beauty that are lasting and endearing. – notes by Wu Man, “What is a pipa?”

What kinds of new sounds and songs will emerge when a classical string quartet is in conversation with the ancient pipa? What emotions will this music evoke for childhood friends and schoolmates who meet again on tonight’s stage, and for those in the audi-ence? To find out, I spoke with Wu Man, widely recognized as the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and as a leading ambassador of Chinese music in the West.

When she was just 13, Wu Man was accepted into the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. It was there that she met Yi-Wen Jiang, the Shanghai Quartet’s second violin-ist. “He was my classmate at the conservatory. A few years later, I met Honggang Li, the viola player, at the same conservatory. Through him, I met his brother Weigang Li, a very talented violin player.” But Wu Man didn’t collaborate musically with her friends back then. “We took many cultural and required political doctrine courses together, but we never played music together. We belonged to different departments. They played Western instruments, and I played a Chinese instrument. We were separated by two different musical worlds.”

After conservatory, Wu Man came to realize that her lifelong creative journey would be to combine her instrument, her voice, and her body to create unprecedented sounds and new modes of performance for the pipa. “I feel pipa is my voice. I communicate with people through my pipa.”

The year 1992 marked the first time in history for musical dialogue between a string quartet and a pipa, and a new musical form was born. One of the most memorable performances is Wu Man’s collaboration with the Kronos Quartet on Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera in 1995.

What is unique and exciting about Wu Man’s present tour with the Shanghai Quartet is that it not only promises the cross-cultural and genre-defying musical experiences that Wu Man is now well known for around the world, but the collaboration has also been a deeply personal one for the performers. “We have the same cultural heritage. We are so familiar with the repertory. We have a visceral understanding of the meanings of these folk songs and contemporary compositions because we grew up in China in these sounds. In rehearsals, we were able to ‘jump into’ the music immediately. We were transported back to our childhoods by the music; all the memories came back with the music. It is something very special to us.” After a brief pause Wu Man added, “very emotional.”

Wu Man and the members of the Shanghai Quartet are particularly looking forward to sharing their musical journey and emotions with college students. “I love to answer [students’] questions about pipa. I love to share my creative processes with them, and it’s so inspiring to see the sparkles in their eyes. I am always thrilled by their curiosity.”

Wu Man’s adventurous journey with the pipa seems to have radically departed from the aesthetics of those pipa masters recorded in China’s historical texts. Her journey could never have been imagined by innumerable pipa singsong girls throughout China’s long history. Yet, Wu Man plays a pipa that belonged to one of her teachers and that was bestowed upon her when he passed away, a significant gesture to recognize her central role both as a guardian of the pipa tradition and a pioneer of a new path for this ancient instrument. Su Zheng, Associate Professor of Music Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut October, 2015

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ABOUT THE PROGRAMCHINA SONG

Some years ago I developed the idea of arranging a few sets of Chinese folk songs along with popular music by various Chinese composers. I grew up with many of these pieces, and played some as solo works for violin and piano during the difficult days of the Cultural Revolution.

These works are short and diverse, some based upon traditional folk songs, and others composed recently. Although their musical style is not structured or sophisticated, the pieces seem to be accessible and enjoyable for a general audience. The themes speak to the individual listener because they are expressive, direct and easily absorbed and understood. I asked myself: “Why not arrange them for string quartet, which is the form I love the most? That way I can play beautiful Chinese music again and also bring it to a wider audience with my group, the Shanghai Quartet.”

I sifted through many songs and began arranging them for string quartet or small ensemble. Some of the folk songs are usually performed by a singer, violin, or piano; or by Chinese traditional instruments such as the Pipa, Erhu or Suona (a double-reed wind instrument, almost like an oboe), and Bamboo flute. But, I didn’t want simply to imitate traditional Chinese instruments when we play those pieces. I tried to make the harmony and the structure closer to traditional western styles. The idea is that Chinese music can be played on western instruments and thus can be enjoyed internationally.

The use of folk materials of China’s minority nationalities was extremely popular among Chinese composers during 1960-1980. The Yao Dance was originally written by Mao Yuan and Tie-Shan Liu, based on a folk song of Yao, a mountain village in GuiZhou, in the southwest region of China. The work has three large sections, and within each section there are two themes. In the opening, the viola and cello, playing a soft piz-zicato, hint at the arrival of nightfall. Some Yao dancers, dressed in floating, colorful gar-ments, gather in the moonlight. The second violin then plays a simple but expressive melody as a beautiful young girl starts to dance. The rest of the dancers join her soon thereafter. The theme suddenly takes on an ardent and rough character, suggesting a group of young men that cannot refrain from dashing into the group to join the dance. The strong contrast in the music depicts the striking personalities of the Yao people. The middle section is in 3/4 time, and its melody moves back and forth between a sing-ing quality and a rhythmic dancing figure, as if two young lovers are expressing their adoration for each other. In the recapitulation the viola starts the first theme before being joined by the other strings. The second theme is more vivid and passionate, with each voice alternating its entrance until the whole quartet plays together in a loud and fast coda in a culmination of the evening’s celebration.

Shepherd’s Song is a popular folk song stemming from the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. It was often played on a traditional two-stringed Mongolian instrument called a “Horse-Head Qin,” because there is a hand carved horse’s head on the top of the Qin instead of a scroll. There are several versions of this piece, including one by the famous Chinese composer Han-Kun Sha, who arranged “Shepherd’s Song” for violin solo with piano accompaniment. As the shepherd puts his cattle out to graze, the surroundings inspire him to express his love of nature and his feelings of nostalgia for his homeland. He sings, “White clouds are floating in the blue sky. Under the clouds there is a flock of snow white sheep.” The lyrical melody brims with deep emotion. The free rhythm and Dvorakian harmony in the lower strings’ arpeggio figures create a quiet, misty atmosphere, suggesting patches of soft clouds floating over meadows. The music reaches a passionate climax before subsiding again into an atmosphere of tran-quility and peace. We in the Shanghai Quartet were very honored that Mr. Han-Kun Sha was in the audience for our performance of this piece in Shanghai in November, 2001. He was deeply moved and happy to hear his piece in a brand new form.

Harvest Celebration is an original piece by violinist and composer Jing-Ping Zhang. He composed this piece for violin with piano accompaniment while he was a professor at the Nanjing Arts Institute. The work is one of my favorites, and I have always kept it in my solo repertoire as a wonderful encore piece. For centuries the majority of the Chinese population has lived off the land, so the harvest celebration, coming after a year of hard plowing and weeding, has always been one of the great events in people’s

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lives. Based on four short phrases, the violin tries to imitate the sound of the Suona — a double reed wind instrument with a very loud and high pitch, similar to an oboe — while drums, cymbals and gongs (suggested by the lower strings) are beaten boister-ously. The rapid switches of meter and rhythm suggest the competitive improvisations typical of traditional Chinese celebrations. The music evokes images of the peasants singing and dancing with boundless joy. © Yi-Wen Jiang

SONG OF THE CH’INThis work from 1982 is intended for the string quartet. The ‘ch’in’ is a traditional

Chinese seven-stringed, plucked zither, which was associated with sages and scholars. The sophisticated technique of ‘ch’in’ playing involves various ways of plucking the strings, as well as range, timbre and the use of ornaments. In this composition for string quartet, Zhou captures the essence of these special musical gestures frequently found in ‘ch’in’ music. © Zhou Long

RED LANTERN, Quintet for Pipa and String Quartet                Zhao LinI was very honored to be invited by pipa virtuoso Wu Man and the Shanghai Quar-

tet to compose a new work for pipa and string quartet.  This piece is a tribute to my father, the composer Zhao Jiping, and to the great tradition of music from China. Red Lantern is derived from my father’s original music, scored for the great Zhang Yimou film, “Raise the Red Lantern.”  Inspired by Chinese traditional Beijing Opera, this work explores its unique musical style and language with the many colors of our traditional music.  The quintet is a suite of stories that take place in a traditional Chinese private courtyard ( ) through the centuries. It tells an emotional story of Chinese family relationships in older times and the impact of the family’s isolation from society. There are 5 movements: 1. Prelude - Moonlight 2. Wandering3. Love4. Death 5. Epilogue

© Zhao Lin

GHOST OPERA (chamber version) Tan DunGhost Opera is a five-movement work for string quartet and pipa with water. The composer describes this work as a reflection on human spirituality, which is too often buried in the bombardment of urban culture and the rapid advances of technology. It is a cross-temporal, cross-cultural, and cross-media dialogue that touches on the past, present, future, and the eternal; employs elements from Chinese, Tibetan, English, and American cultures; and combines performance traditions of the European classical concert, Chinese shadow puppet theater, visual art installations, folk music, dramatic theater, and shamanistic ritual.

In composing Ghost Opera, Tan was inspired by childhood memories of the shamanis-tic “ghost operas” of Chinese peasant culture. In this tradition, which is over 4,000 years old, humans and spirits of the future, the past, and nature communicate with each oth-er. Tan’s Ghost Opera embraces this tradition, calling on the spirits of Bach (in the form of a quotation from the Prelude in C-sharp minor from Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier), Shakespeare (a brief excerpt from The Tempest), ancient folk traditions, and earth/nature (represented by the Chinese folk song “Little Cabbage”). The Bach excerpt acts, the composer says, as “a seed from which grows a new counterpoint of different ages, different sound worlds, and different cultures.” In the final movement, the gradual transformation of the counterpoint brings the spirits of Bach and Shakespeare, the civi-lized world, and the rational mind, “this insubstantial pageant,” into the eternal earth.

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Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA

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ABOUT THE ARTIST Maria Schneider’s music has been hailed by critics as “evocative, majestic, magical,

heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization.” She and her orchestra became widely known starting in 1994 when they released their first recording, Evanescence. There, Schneider began to develop her personal way of writing for what would become her 18-member collective, made up of many of the finest musicians in jazz today, tailor-ing her compositions to distinctly highlight the uniquely creative voices of the group. The Maria Schneider Orchestra has performed at festivals and concert halls worldwide. She herself has received numerous commissions and guest-conducting invites, working with over 85 groups from over 30 countries. 

Schneider’s music blurs the lines between genres, making her long list of commis-sioners quite varied, stretching from Jazz at Lincoln Center, to The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, to collaborating with David Bowie. She is among a small few to have received GRAMMYS in multiple genres, having received the award in both jazz and classical categories, as well as for her work with David Bowie.

Schneider and her orchestra have a distinguished recording career with twelve GRAMMY nominations and five GRAMMY awards. Unique funding of projects has become a hallmark for Schneider through the trend-setting company, ArtistShare. Her album, Concert in the Garden (2004) became historic as the first recording to win a GRAMMY with Internet-only sales, even more significantly, it blazed the “crowd-funding” trail as ArtistShare’s first release. She’s been awarded many honors by the Jazz Journal-ists Association and DOWNBEAT and JAZZTIMES Critics and Readers Polls. In 2012, her alma mater, the University of Minnesota, presented Schneider with an honorary doctor-ate, and in 2014, ASCAP awarded her their esteemed Concert Music Award. 

Schneider has become a strong voice for music advocacy, and in 2014 testified before the US Congressional Subcommittee on Intellectual Property about digital rights. She has also appeared on CNN, and has been quoted in numerous publications for her views on Spotify, Pandora, digital rights and music piracy. Most recently, she and concerned colleagues in New York have launched a widespread campaign on behalf of music-makers, MusicAnswers.org.

Her recent collaboration with her orchestra and David Bowie resulted in his single, “Sue (Or In A Season of Crime),” and brought her a 2016 GRAMMY award (Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals). Schneider and her orchestra also received a 2016 GRAMMY award for their latest work, The Thompson Fields (Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album).

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MUSIC AT AMHERST COLLEGE Pacifica Quartet April 2, 8 pm, Buckley Recital Hall, $ String quartet is joined by NY Philharmonic Princi-pal Clarinetist Anthony McGill, performing works by Mozart, Britten and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet. Amherst Symphony Orchestra April 17, 7 pm, Buckley Recital Hall, $ ASO performs the complete score of the Carmen Ballet Suite by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s España. M@A Chamber Series April 24, 3 pm, Buckley Recital Hall, $ The Music @ Amherst Chamber Series presents mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Bradley Moore, performing a mixed Frauenliebe und Leben program by Schumann, plus other composers. www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/music MUSIC IN DEERFIELD Miriam Fried & Jonathan Biss May 7, 8 pm, Sweeney Concert Hall, $ Award-winning violinist Miriam Fried and her wunderkind pianist son, Jonathan Biss, perform a program of Beethoven sonatas, including “Spring.” www.musicindeerfield.org

PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Weber Op. 77 • Mahler • Fauré Requiem May 14, 7:30 pm, UMass Fine Arts Center, $ PVSO performs Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz, Op. 77, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and Fauré’s Requiem, bolstered by the PVS Chorus. www.pvsoc.org

SMITH COLLEGE Smith College Orchestra: Spring Concert Apr 16, 8 pm, Sweeney Concert Hall, Free Performing Gustav Holst’s The Planets, with the Wheaton College Orchestra and the Smith College Choirs. Plus Flute Concerto by Otar Gordeli. Smith College Wind Ensemble Apr 18, 7:30 pm, Sweeney Concert Hall, Free Featuring Handel’s Water Music, Smetana’s The Moldau, Grainger’s Spoon River and Loch Lomond. www.smith.edu/smitharts/calendar.php SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Beethoven & Brahms Apr 9, 7:30 pm, Springfield Symphony Hall, $ Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, Op. 92, F Major & Braham’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83, Bᵇ Major. www.springfieldsymphony.org Season Grand Finale May 7, 7:30 pm, Springfield Symphony Hall, $ Joined by two choruses, Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48 and Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3, Op. 78, C minor. www.springfieldsymphony.org UMASS MUSIC DEPARTMENT All-University Orchestra Mar 30, 6:30 pm, Grace Church, Amherst, Free Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, “Unfinished” D. 759. UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra Apr 25, 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Center, $ Gershwin’s Catfish Row (Porgy & Bess), Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, and more. www.umass.edu/music/eventcalendar

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Created and Directed by

Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholasJohn Angeles, Leilani Dibble, Eric Fay, Delaunce Jackson,

Alexis Juliano, Kris Lee, Guido Mandozzi, Jeremy PriceCharley Ruane, Ivan Salazar, Simeon Weedall

Lighting bySteve McNicholas and Neil Tiplady

US Rehearsal Director Production Manager Fiona Wilkes Ronald Grimshaw

Casting Director Associate Producer Vince Liebhart/Scot Willingham Fred Bracken

General ManagerJoe R. Watson

Executive ProducersRichard Frankel Productions/Marc Routh / Alan Schuster / Aldo Scrofani

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ABOUT STOMPSTOMP, a unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy, was

created in Brighton, UK, in the summer of 1991. It was the result of a ten-year col-laboration between its creators, Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas.

They first worked together in 1981, as members of the street band Pookiesnacken-burger and the theatre group Cliff Hanger. Together, these groups presented a series of street comedy musicals at the Edinburgh Festival throughout the early ‘80s. After two albums, a UK TV series and extensive touring throughout Europe, Pookiesnack-enburger also produced the highly acclaimed “Bins” commercial for Heineken lager. The piece was originally written and choreographed by Luke as part of the band’s stage show; it proved to be the starting point for STOMP’s climactic dustbin dance.

In 1986, Luke and Steve created an eight-minute ‘percussive movie’ for Bette Midler’s HBO special Mondo Beyondo. Between 1987 and 1990, Luke staged, as Artis-tic and Musical Director, four large-scale outdoor events, including “Beat the Clyde”, which involved floating a drum orchestra on a pontoon in the centre of Glasgow; the largest of these events, “The Heineken Hove Lagoon Show”, involved a 120-piece drum orchestra featuring the Brighton Festival Chorus and a full orchestral string section.

In 1991, Steve and Luke first created STOMP, previewing at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre and premiering at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, where it became The Guardian’s “Critics’ Choice” and won The Daily Express “Best of the Fringe Award”. Between 1991 and 1994, the original cast of STOMP played to capacity audiences around the world: from Hong Kong to Barcelona, from Dublin to Sydney. The touring culminated in a sell-out season at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre in January 1994, where STOMP received an Olivier nomination for Best Entertainment and won Best Choreography in a West End Show.

An expanded version of STOMP, involving up to 30 cast members, was originally created for the Brighton Festival, UK, and was subsequently presented in Melbourne, Australia. It was most recently seen in September 1995, open-air, at the Acropolis in Athens and at the Royal Festival Hall, London. This production broke all box office records, which had been established by Frank Sinatra in 1972.

STOMP began its run at the Orpheum Theatre in New York in February 1994 and quickly went on to win both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for Most Unique The-atre Experience. By the summer of 1994, the first American cast was in place at the Orpheum, freeing the original cast for sell-out tours of North America and Japan.

In the summer of 1995, two more American productions were created for the sole purpose of US touring. US casts have also debuted STOMP in Chile, Brazil and Korea. Meanwhile, a fifth STOMP company, also touring from the UK, was formed in 1997 and has consistently toured the world ever since. This company presented STOMP for the first time in Scandinavia and South Africa, and has been a regular visitor to Germany, Holland and France. Another STOMP production opened in San Francisco in May 2000, running for two and a half years.

The original cast of STOMP have recorded music for the Tank Girl movie soundtrack and appeared on the Quincy Jones album, Q’s Jook Joint. A soundtrack recorded by Steve and Luke for the Showtime movie Riot was released in the spring of 1997. STOMP has also featured in a number of commercials, including Coca-Cola’s “Ice Pick” and numerous spots for both Target stores in the US and Toyota in Japan.

STOMP also created the Mr Frears’ Ears series of short films created for Nickelodeon, whilst “Brooms”, a 15-minute short based around the opening routine, was nomi-nated for an Academy Award. “Brooms” was also selected for screening at Sundance

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Festival and for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. STOMP made a special ap-pearance at the Academy Awards in March 1996, with an original piece involving the live synchronization of classic film clips and onstage action, featuring 20 performers from all five productions.

In the summer of 1997, Steve and Luke created and directed STOMP OUT LOUD, a 45-minute television special for HBO, which combined stage material with new piec-es created for TV. It was premiered in the USA in December 1997 and subsequently received four Emmy nominations, for direction, sound mixing, multi-camera editing and art direction. 1998 saw the release of the STOMP OUT LOUD video and DVD around the world. Another unique blend of live action and film footage was created for the Emmy Awards, in which STOMP effectively performed with Spike Jones!

STOMP performed after midnight on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at US Presi-dent Clinton’s millennium celebrations. During 2000, a Sesame Street special, “Let’s Make Music”, a collaboration between STOMP and the Muppets, was released on TV and video in North America.

Luke and Steve began production of their IMAX movie Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey in Brazil during Carnival 2000 and completed it in the summer of 2002. Pulse takes the IMAX audience on a spectacular global journey, featuring performances from Kodo, Timbalada and Eva Yerbabuena. It was released to critical acclaim in New York in the autumn of 2002, and went on to win two major awards at the International Festival of La Géode in Paris.

In September 2002, STOMP finally entered London’s West End at the Vaudeville Theatre, and later that year STOMP performed as part of The Royal Variety Show for the second time. In 2004, New York celebrated 10 years of continuous performances of STOMP at the Orpheum Theatre by renaming 2nd Avenue at 8th Street Stomp Avenue. It has since become the longest running show at the Orpheum.

In 2006, Luke and Steve were commissioned to create and produce The Lost and Found Orchestra, which takes the ideas behind STOMP to a symphonic level, in celebration of 40 years of the Brighton Festival. The LFO subsequently performed at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival early in 2007, was seen at the Royal Festival Hall in London at Christmas 2008 and the Theater Carré in February 2009.

In 2008, STOMP returned to its roots for a new DVD shoot at the Brighton Dome, bringing together a cast from all over the STOMP world. For the first time, the entire show has been captured in high definition sound and video.

In August 2012, the largest ever assembly of STOMP performers (40 performers from 12 different countries) were brought together for a specifically choreographed appearance in the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

STOMP was created with the original U.K. cast:Luke Cresswell, Nick Dwyer, Sarah Eddy, Theseus Gerard,

Fraser Morrison, David Olrod, Carl Smith and Fiona Wilkes.

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pilot television series under Jim Fried-man & Scripps Howard Foundation, Inc. After graduating from Howard University having studied biology and internal medicine, he went onto study with Assane Konte of Kankouran W.African Dance Company [Wash, DC], Brian Williams of Step Afrika! [Wash, DC] and Cirque du Soleil MOSAIC. He thanks the Creator for ordering his steps, his family for their undying love & support and is humbled to join the cast of STOMP on this artistic journey!

ALEXIS JULIANO (Performer) is an award-winning dancer, teacher and choreographer. She is best known as a top 14 finalist on So You Think You Can Dance Season 10. A holder of numerous national titles and choreography awards, Alexis won three gold medals at the Tap Olympics. She has performed as a part of Tap Kids, the Hands Down Tap Project, Tap N Time, Jarod Grimes Underground Tap, Universal Studios’ winter parade, Nigel Lythgoe’s Dizzy Feet Gala, Capezio A.C.E. Awards, and the So You Think You Can Dance Tour. She recently finished working on the Fox Presentation of Grease LIVE! Alexis is also a Capezio Ath-lete. She would like to thank Mom, Dad, Kristin and Joey for their continued sup-port. Also huge thank you to Luke, Steve, and Fiona for giving her the opportunity with the amazing show STOMP.

KRIS LEE (Performer) is an accomplished percussionist and a cum laude gradu-ate of the Hartt School of Music. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the rhythmic educational program Touch the Sound that provides percussion workshops for inner city youth. She is involved with Tom Tom Magazine out of Brooklyn, NY and Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. Kris travels both nationally and internationally to share her passion for rhythm.

GUIDO MANDOZZI (Performer) Guido Mandozzi is from the United King-dom. After graduating in Acting from Mountview Theatre School in London, he performed in many shows before being fortunate to get to be part of

JOHN ANGELES (Performer) is from Fort Worth, TX, where he began his music training studying percussion. He went on to study percussion and music performance at TCU where he got his bachelor’s degree in music education. He was a proud member of the 2001 DCI world champions, the Cavaliers, where he marched snare drum. Through-out college and thereafter, John has performed with various percussion groups and bands, and has toured the world doing performances and clinics. John would like to thank his parents, family, and his friends for helping make his dreams come true, and dedicates his performances to them all. 

LEILANI DIBBLE (Performer) is from San Mateo California, and spent her first 21 years in the Bay Area. Forever a California girl. She joined the STOMP family in 2003. Thank you to Luke, Steve and Fiona. Stomp has brought to me so much joy and adventure, it’s been a living dream. She currently lives in Dur-ham, NC. When not stomping you will find her on her yoga mat, or conspiring on how one can live a sustainable life in this current weather. Thanks for coming to the show. Enjoy our weird little world for if you are reading this you surely are a part of it too.

ERIC FAY (Performer) is a native Southern Californian with New York roots. Eric’s percussion skills were refined through years of formal drum and marching-band training. Eric is a percussion in-structor and has worked as a performer at world-renowned tourist destinations in California. After seeing STOMP, his dream was to be part of it. He joined a motivational percussion group headed by a former STOMPer, and hasn’t looked back since. Many thanks to Eric’s family, and to Chris Rubio, for helping him live his dream!

DELAUNCE JACKSON (Performer) began his journey in Cincinnati, OH studying and performing with local artist mentors Terri Brown and Jack Louiso, includ-ing annual intensives with Katherine Dunham in St. Louis, MO and syndicated

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the STOMP family. Through this show, Guido has managed to perform in all four Stomp companies around the world and has also ticked off 49 of America’s states! He is also an avid photographer and loves to document his travels via this visual form on Facebook, Instagram (@gmando) and Twitter. This bio had to be no more than 100 words so to be precise, this sentence is a filler. 

JEREMY PRICE (Performer) Born and raised in Roanoke, VA, Jeremy has been performing with STOMP intermittently since 2003! Initially a Break Dancer and Drum set player, He now finds himself working as a multi-instrumentalist and touring with his own percussion en-semble Plastic Musik. www.plasticmusik.com

CHARLEY RUANE (Performer) Charley began performing at age 10 in a primary school production and found a pas-sion instantly within the arts. Training includes The BRIT School and The Centre PAC. He now performs various genres of Freestyle Hiphop, Beatboxing, Musical Theatre and Acting. Credits for stage include: Heartbreak Beautiful (Churchill Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and Olivier Theatre); Honk (Beckenham Theatre); Lucky Stiff (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), and Spring Awakening (Chatham Central The-atre). Charley also danced for a McDon-alds ad in December 2014, which has since been aired on National German TV and is published on their website and YouTube.

IVAN SALAZAR (Performer) From San Diego, CA. Buoyed by his passion for movement and music his whole life, he joined Chris Rubio’s percussion movement group and has performed throughout Southern California, from street corners to stadiums. Special thanks to Carlos Sigala, Chris Rubio, and Massapê for the inspiration and funda-mentals. Bruno, Mum, Ne, Debe, and Nani and friends - He loves you guys!SIMEON WEEDALL (Performer) trained at the London Studio Centre graduat-ing with the Tap Award, furthering his training in New York. He has performed

in the Jazz Company UK Tour, Chicago in-ternational tour, Chicago (West End), as lead tapper for The Liam O’Connor Show international tour and in Magic of the Dance international tour. He has also worked world-wide as a soloist for Coca Cola, Classical Spectacular, Big Dance, Brighton Dome Spectacular, “The Paul O’ Grady Show”, and others. He choreographed, produced and appeared in About Time (West End) then Percus-sive Feet UK Tour, has appeared in the I.T Crowd, and has been teaching tap for 14 years.

LUKE CRESSWELL (Director) is a self-taught percussionist from Brighton. His session work as a drummer and rhythm programmer includes Beats Internation-al, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, and Bryan Ferry. After working for several years as a street musician and performer, he first created STOMP in 1991. He has directed, with Steve McNicholas, several award-winning commercials and short films. He received an Oscar® nomination for the film “Brooms”, an Emmy® nomination for STOMP OUT LOUD, and co-directed the award winning IMAX movie, Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey. He has also received a special achievement award from the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. More recently, Luke co-created the Lost and Found Orchestra and the Vegas produc-tion of STOMP OUT LOUD and also co-directed the 3D IMAX movie Wild Ocean. Luke occasionally performs with STOMP, and is currently conductor of the LFO.

STEVE McNICHOLAS (Director), from Yorkshire, has worked as an actor/singer/musician/writer with various theatrical and musical groups, starting out with the Bradford Theatre Group in 1973. Through the ’80s he worked with Cliff Hanger, Covent Garden Community The-atre, and Pookiesnackenburger. Despite also being an original member of the a cappella group the Flying Pickets, and a final appearance in Mr. Bean, Steve no longer performs. He shares directorial credits with Luke Cresswell on STOMP-based films and commercials, and their new show, the Lost and Found Orchestra.

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With Luke, he composed the soundtrack to the Showtime movie, Riot, and shares the Oscar® and Emmy® nominations for his work on Brooms and STOMP OUT LOUD, and co-directed the award-winning IMAX movie, Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey. Steve also co-created the LFO and co-directed the 3D IMAX movie Wild Ocean, released worldwide in 2008.

VINCE LIEBHART (Casting). Off-Broad-way: Orange Lemon Egg Canary, Cyclone, Summit Conference, Smashing, Four Beers, Men Without Shadows, Hold Please, Mon-sieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, The Plank Project, Texarkana Waltz, True-blinka, The Golem, As You Like It, Four, The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, #11 (Blue & White), Isn’t It Romantic. Classic Stage Company: Savannah Bay, The Winter’s Tale, Ghosts, The Underpants, Monster, Race, Naked, The Alchemist, Look Back in Anger, The Misanthrope, Hurricane. NY Stage and Film 2001, 2002 and 2003 sea-sons. Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival: The Scene. Boston: The Provok’d Wife & Dido, Queen of Carthage (A.R.T.), Family Stories, Swimming In March and Amazons/Imperialists One-Acts (Market Theater), Oklahoma City (Theater Offen-sive). Danton’s Death, 1000 Airplanes On The Roof, and The Mysteries And What’s So Funny (Bessie Award - Best Ensemble Cast). Film: Brother To Brother, Revolution #9, My Angel Is A Centerfold, Ordinary Sinner, and Company K. TV: “As The World Turns.”

FRANKEL GREEN THEATRICAL MAN-AGEMENT – JOE WATSON (General Management). Richard Frankel and Joe Watson have been working together for the past 18 years in New York and on tour in the U.S. Shows general managed by Richard Frankel Productions and FGTM include Stomp, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Sound of Music, The Weir, Swing!, The Producers, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, Company, Young Frankenstein, Gypsy, The Norman Con-quests, Finian’s Rainbow, Burn the Floor, A Little Night Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Forever Tango, Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, Necessary Targets, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Murder Ballad,

Los Monólogos de la Vagina, Lennon: Through a Glass Onion and Flashdance. Richard and his partners Tom Viertel and Steve Baruch own and operate 54 Below, Broadway’s supper club.

PRODUCERS: COLUMBIA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT, INC. (Producer) is an international leader in managing the careers and touring activities of the world’s most prominent performing artists and institutions. CAMI has been on the forefront of perform-ing arts management and production throughout the world for nine decades. Columbia Artists Theatricals (CAT), founded in 1956 as a subsidiary of CAMI, collaborates with artists, producers, pro-duction companies and management agencies, bringing performances to over 450 cities around the world. Currently, CAT’s roster includes: Blue Man Group, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Chicago, El-vis Lives, Just Jim Dale, Legends in Concert, Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, Meno-pause : The Musical, New York Gypsy All Stars, Brian Henson’s Puppet Up!, Saturday Night Fever, Shaping Sound, The Phan-tom’s Leading Ladies, and Voca People.

HARRIET NEWMAN LEVE Broadway: Coram Boy; Lieutenant of Inishmore; The Good Body; The Crucible; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Hedda Gabler; Kat and the Kings; Diary of Anne Frank; Twilight Los Angeles 1992. Off-Broadway: STOMP; Family Secrets; Shockheaded Peter; Necessary Targets; Communicating Doors; Bunny Bunny. Las Vegas: STOMP OUT LOUD.

JAMES D. STERN CEO of Endgame Enter-tainment. Has produced or directed over 50 shows or movies including Broadway: A Little Night Music, Hairspray, The Produc-ers, Legally Blonde, and STOMP. Film: An Education, Every Little Step, It’s the Rage, Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey, Michael Jordan to the Max, Proof, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, I’m Not There.

MORTON WOLKOWITZ Theatrical Producing Credits: Donnybrook, music and lyrics by Johnny Burke; The Enemy Is Dead starring Linda Lavin; My Astonish-

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ing Self, starring Donal Donally; The Un-expected Man, by Yasmina Reza starring Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins; From Door to Door by James Sherman; One Shot One Kill by Richard Vetere; Tryst by Karoline Leach, directed by Joe Brancato; STOMP OUT LOUD in Las Vegas. He is managing part of “Suitz LLC” with Richard Sudock and Michael Wolkowitz. He has enjoyed success in the industrial and financial worlds and is former Chairman and cur-rent Director of Key Energy Services, Inc. He is married to the actress Anita Keal.

MITCHELL MAXWELL has produced six Broadway shows, twenty one Off-Broad-way shows, four national tours, three West End shows, and five feature films. His shows have won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Obie Awards and his long-running Off-Broad-way hit, Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies, was the recipient of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

SUSAN QUINT GALLIN / SUKI SANDLER: Productions include Desperately Seeking Susan (London, opening November 2007); Spamalot; STOMP (NY & tour); Woman Before A Glass; The Retreat From Moscow; Man Of La Mancha (2002 Revival); The Shape Of Things; Hedda Gabler (2001 Broadway); Fully Commit-ted; Cowgirls; Angels In America; From The Mississippi Delta; The Rothschilds (Revival); Other People’s Money; Burn This; The Cryptogram (London).

DAN MARKLEY: Producing credits in-clude Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, High Fidelity, Family Secrets (rev.), Vagina Monologues, Lifegame, Damn Yankees, On The Waterfront, Oleanna, and Jeffrey (film), with Alison Sheehy, Sarah, Hayden and Sander.

JENNIFER MANOCHERIAN: Broadway credits include Spring Awakening; The Little Dog Laughed; Caroline, or Change; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Crucible; Jane Eyre, the musical; and The Kentucky Cycle. Off Broadway: Berkshire Village Idiot; STOMP; Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh; Showing Off; Palace of Amateurs. Film: Family Blues, which she also co-wrote.

FRED BRACKEN (Associate Producer) first saw STOMP in Australia and resolved to see it performed in New York. Mr. Bracken works for CNN.

RICHARD FRANKEL PRODUCTIONS/MARC ROUTH (Executive Producers) Richard Frankel and Marc Routh have been producing and general managing shows together since 1985. Their current productions include Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, Gypsy, and STOMP in New York, and STOMP OUT LOUD in Las Vegas, Sweeney Todd on tour, Little Shop of Horrors in London as well as a UK tour of The Producers and The King and I and SpongeBob SquarePants Live in Asia. With their partners Tom Viertel and Steve Baruch they have produced some 60 ad-ditional musicals and plays in New York, London, and in Asia, including Company, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, Swing, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Penn and Teller, Driving Miss Daisy, Love Letters, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and Angels in America.

ALAN J. SCHUSTER (Executive Producer) has operated the Orpheum, Minetta Lane, Union Square, 2nd Avenue and The Cherry Lane Theatres in New York and The Royal George Complex in Chi-cago. He built 37 Arts the home to the Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Orches-tra of St. Luke’s. He has produced over 25 productions including STOMP OUT LOUD, Key Exchange, Mamet’s Oleanna, Marvin’s Room, Jeffrey, Vita and Virginia and Shockheaded Peter.

ALDO SCROFANI (Executive Producer) Founding producer of STOMP. Currently President and CEO of Theatre Manage-ment Associates, Inc. COO of Columbia Artists Theatricals (18 years).Executive VP of Jujamcyn Theatres (13 years). Over 100 productions including: Gone With The Wind, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Lovemusik, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Noise/Funk, Tap Dogs, Sunset Boulevard, Carousel, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, City of Angels, Grand Hotel, M. Butterfly, Jelly’s Last Jam, Into The Woods, Gypsy, Big River, My One and Only, and Dracula.

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STAFF FOR STOMP

GENERAL MANAGEMENTFRANKEL GREEN THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT

Richard Frankel Joe R. Watson______________________________

ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGERRoberta Roberts

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COMPANY MANAGERDeAnn L. Boise

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GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVEBONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN

Chris Boneau Jackie Green

TOUR PRESS REPRESENTATIVEC MAJOR MARKETING & PUBLICITY

Catherine Major

Production Manager .....................................................................................Ronald GrimshawProduction Carpenter .........................................................................................Graham StuartLighting Director .......................................................................................................... Felicia HallProduction Props ......................................................................................................Julie SheltonProduction Electrician ...........................................................................................Joseph DoerrProduction Sound .................................................................................................. Drew RobertsManagement Associate ................................................................................................ Jaime TottiController ...................................................................................Galbraith & Co./Amanda HayekAssistant to Mr. Frankel ................................................................................................Heidi LibbyAssistant ................................................................................................................. Jillian TomlinsonAssistant to Mr. Routh ...................................................................................................Sam StrumInformation Technology Manager ............................................................................. Ben BigbyCasting Associate .................................................................................................Scot WillinghamIntern ............................................................................................................................ Katie BrennanSet Dresser .............................................................................................................Stacey-Jo MarinePhotographers ............................ Marc Bryan-Brown, Steve McNicholas, Lois Greenfield

Jun-Ichi Takahashi, Harry PociusLegal Counsel ......................................................................................................S. Jean Ward, Esq.Insurance .......................................................................................................... DeWitt Stern Group

Risk Management Underwriters, Inc.Accounting ..............................................................................Fried and Kowgios Partners, LLPTravel & Housing ............................................................. Road Rebel Entertainment TouringPayroll Services ............................................................................................................PEOPLE HRO Payroll Data Processing, LLCMerchandising .....................................................Marquee Merchandise, Inc./Matt MurphyPhysical Therapy ...............................................................NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy, IncPhysical Therapist ......................................................................................... Katrina Lee, PT, DPTMedical Director ............................................................................................. Charles Garten, MD

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSOriginal production presented by Yes/No People in association with

Glynis Henderson and Loretta Sacco. STOMP’s exclusive agent and general inqui-ries: Loretta Sacco, c/o Yes/No Productions,

N1 Offices, The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove BN3 1ASTel: 011.44.127.371.1151, Fax: 011.44.127.373.7538

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CreditsDesigned by Yes/No Productions, Ltd.; Trucking by Janco;

Scenery built by Light & Sound Design; Zippo lighters courtesy of Zippo Manufacturing Corp.; “Super Big Gulp” cups

courtesy of Southland Corp.; Ski boots by Rossignol Ski Co._______________________________________

Special ThanksMore Merchandising/George Fenmore; Brad Bauner; Paul J. Botchis; David W.

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Center Seriesdirector of programming, Halina Kusleikaasssistant director of programming, Hillary Rathbun

Magic Triangle and Solos & Duos coordinator, Glenn Siegel VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMSUniversity Museum of Contemporary Artdirector, Loretta Yarlowcurator of education, Eva Fierstbusiness & communications manager, Betsey Wolfsoninterim collections manager, Jennifer Lindfacilities & installation manager, Lyle Denit

Augusta Savage Gallerydirector, Terry Jenouregallery manager, Alexia Cota

Hampden & Central Galleriesdirector, Anne La Prade gallery manager, Sally Curcio

Neal AbrahamWilliam BaczekJosh BedellRosemary Caine Steven K. DauryAllen Davis, Past ChairJoAnne J. FinckLori Divine Michael GoveMadelyn Bonnot GriffinLee Hines, Jr. Shelley Holzman, ChairJohn KendzierskiMichael KusekJulie Roman LacknerBarbara LuceyBeckie MarkarianTony MaroulisKimberly MayMary Agnes NelenShardool ParmarJustin M. PelisTerry PetersLaura Radwell Michael J. Simolo Aaron M. SundbergHector ToledoRhonda VenneKatherine E. Vorwerk

Emeritus Members

Barbara C. BernardRichard CovellHonoré DavidBetsy EganCarl EgerSeymour FrankelLori FriedmanArnold FriedmannGwendolyn GlassJ. Lynn GriesemerAlfred L. GriggsJoan HaleyNancy HamelMerilee HillBill HoganMotoko InoueDolly JollyBesty LoughranGreg MalynoskiDave MartulaCarol Moore CuttingKathleen MullinSandra ParentLorna PetersonSharon RogalskiFrederick C. Tillis, Past DirectorZina TillonaRobert Mugar Yacubian

Honorary Members

Nnenna FreelonMike HaleyJimmy HeathSheila JordanStan RosenbergPeter TolanLois TorfGeorge Trakas

FRIENDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FINE ARTS CENTER BOARD & STAFF

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SPONSORS $10,000 & above

IndividualsDaniel BurenLaToya Ruby FrazierFrank GohlkeJohn Riddy

BusinessesApplewood, Member of

Loomis CommunitiesBaystate Health Systems, Inc.Coca-Cola Bottling CompanyChubb Group of

Insurance CompaniesDaily Hampshire GazetteNew England Public Radio

(WFCR/NEPR)Pioneer Valley Hotel GroupProfessional Drywall

Construction, Inc.The Recorder/Valley KidsUMass Campus Center HotelUMass Catering ServicesValley Advocate/Preview Magazine

ADVOCATES $5,000–$9,999

IndividualsJohn F. Dubach & Copper F. GilothRonna B. EricksonBeth E. GerrigScott W. Prior & Nanny VonnegutBeat StreuliVictor & Karen Hardy Woolridge

BusinessesCooley Dickinson Hospital, Inc.Florence BankHampshire Hospitality Group, ThePeoplesBankRainbow TimesWRSI 93.9—The River

ASSOCIATES $2,500–$4,999

IndividualsAlice AycockSol & Mimi BergCarl & Shirley A. EgerGerrig-Peterson Family;

in memory of Risa Gerrig ‘81Matthew HiggsAndrew LuggAllan Wexler

BusinessesBe Seen LeadershipChartpak, Inc.Daury Wealth ManagementDavis Financial GroupDean’s Beans Organic CoffeeEasthampton Savings Bank

Through their support the following Friends of the Fine Arts Center play an integral role in making possible our performances, exhibits and educational programs. A sincere Thank You to all. (List reflects gifts between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015)

El Sol LatinoExclusive Car ServiceHealth New EnglandFinck & Perras Insurance

Agency, Inc.Lexington Group, Inc.Pioneer Valley Periodontics/

Steven H. Goldsher DDSQuad/Graphics, Inc.Tod Williams Billie Tsien ArchitectsUMass Five College Federal

Credit UnionUnited Personnel ServicesViju Inc.

MEMBERS$1,000–$2,499

IndividualsNeal B. AbrahamJohn F. & Linda AhernPatricia K.S. & Richard A. BakerMarc Berman & Elizabeth H. StoneCurtis R. & Madelyn Bonnot GriffinJohn G. Bryan & Terry PetersHugh B. CalkinMichael CohenDaniel Farrell & Mary Agnes NelenRobert S. Feldman &

Katherine E. VorwerkIan H. Fraser & Pamela BartlettHelen Kay GallowayBruce M. & Nancy W. GoldsteinBryan C. Harvey & J. Lynn GriesemerMarie A. HessBeverly G. & Willie L. Hill, Jr.Richard B. & Shelley Holzman Motoko InoueMark & Mary B. LedwellElizabeth L. LoughranJames F. Mallet &

Jennifer C. SouthgateTony A. & Nora MaroulisJohn J. McCarthy, III &

Ellen M. WoolfordRichard N. & Elaine S. PalmerMary Catherine PhinneyRobert J. PowersMicah & Maureen RaabTheodore Rosenberg &

Laurel A. GlocheskiLila RoundtreeSarah K. & Mark TannerFrederick C. Tillis BusinessesAgnoli Sign Company, Inc.D’Addario & Company Inc.dani. fine photographyForget Me Not FloristFreshPoint Connecticut, LLCGreenfield Radiology Associates P.C.Hampden BankHotel Northampton/

Mansour Ghalibaf

Horizon Beverage Co.Mt Holyoke College

Printmaking WorkshopNorth Country Landscapes &

Garden CenterPerformance Food ServicePeter Pan Bus LinesPhoenix Exposition Services, Inc.Pioneer Valley Travel, Inc. Silverscape DesignsUnited BankValet Park of AmericaWEIB 106.3 Smooth FMWGBY-TV 57William Baczek Fine ArtsWilliam Wegman StudioYou Are Cordially Invited LLC

SUSTAINER$500–$999

Individuals Anonymous Donor (1)Rosemary Caine &

Howard B. NatenshonHonoré S. & Donald J. DavidJohn E. EbbetsCharles D. Hadley, Jr.Jayant & Alyssa HaksarTerron & Natasha HillsmanLouise Kohrman &

Michael D. MartindellJohn Levine & Susan M. CloptonGregory & Kathleen F. MalynoskiAndrew P. MangelsPamela & Gordon N. Oakes, Jr.Lynn Peterfreund & Nicholas XenosLorna & Dale PetersonAndrew J. & Kirsten Dieterich PittsLaura D. RadwellLorna RitzRonald R. RossiMargaret Sarkissian &

Jerry P. DennerlinePaul A. Sihvonen-BinderJames V. Staros & Alice C. HarrisZina TillonaRhonda & Richard W. VenneEdward W. & Evelyn WestheadJonathan & Meg WrightRobert Mugar YacubianRobert & Beverly YoonRobert T. Zimmerman BusinessesChesterwood MuseumDuseau Trucking/Volume

Recycling AssociatesEric Carle StudiosFallon Community Health PlanGage-Wiley & Co. Inc.Gove Law Office, LLCGreenfield Cooperative BankHair by Harlow/ Kendra A. KaczenskiIntegrity Development &

Construction, Inc.

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Steven H. Goldsher DDSRobinson & Donovan, P.C.Rockridge Retirement CommunitySky Meadow Galleries/Les CampbellThe LIFT SalonUnion StationWEBS, America’s Yarn StoreWhalen Insurance Agency

ENTHUSIAST$250–$499

IndividualsAnonymous Donor (1)Michael & Nancy MeagherMark Berman & Martha G. BakerPrasanta C. & Beverly Bhowmik Liz ChalfinDhipati & Anjusree ChandaElaine S. Darr-MortonPaul S. Doherty &

Dianne Fuller DohertyRuth V. ElcanMaurille J. & Janice FournierSeymour M. FrankelArnold A. & Susi K. FriedmannSheldon & Marcia GoldmanJennifer GoverCarolyn HaydenJoyce W. & Legrand Hines, Jr.Ryan HommelAlexandra Kennedy & James HaugDavid T. & Tanyss MartulaWalter & Kathleen P. MullinJohn F. Todd & Dorothy J. NemetzMark & Sandra ParentDonald J. PolonisDavid & Sharon RogalskiStan C. RosenbergMargaret R. RosenberryBenedict J. SmarCindy E. Stein & Michael A. KolendoJane E. SteinSusan L. StoopsConrad & Barbara Wogrin

Businesses20th Century IlluminationsAmherst Laser & Skin Care CenterBayside Inn & MarinaCarnegie HallCrumpin Fox ClubDon Muller Gallery Inc.Four Seasons LiquorsHome & Homme LLCInSight PhotographyInterskate 91 NorthKuhn Riddle ArchitectsMeghan Godorov:

Possibilities for PeopleThe Porches InnSea Crest Beach HotelSpoleto RestaurantUgone & Thomas CompanyUpton-Massamont Realtors

FRIEND$100–$249

IndividualsJean Adams RobbinsJill P. AndersonJeffrey & Mary Ellen AndersonMary Lou Andre

Paul R. & Marie T. ApplebyRonald D. ArcherAndrew Balder & Cynthia A. SommerDavid BarclayAntoni & Florence E. BaszakMichael L. & Tina D. BerinsDavid A. & Iris P. BerkmanOlivia BernardJeffrey D. & Marilyn BlausteinRobert M. BolandPatricia BranchWill BrideauShirley BrodiganMichael & Ann BrooksAlan J. CalhounPatricia A. Canavan & James GooslinSinan & Lane CeylanGregory A. CigalPeter ClearyDennis E. Conway & Stephen LightArrelle R. CookJohn & Heather Corbett Ernest R. Coulombe &

Francis X. Donnellan, Jr.Emily CowdenClaude C. CurtisPatrick S. & Bernette Daly Marc J. & Mary E. DancerLinda Delone BestRanjanaa Devi & David J. WatsonJohn W. & Judith DicksonDeborah A. DohertyAmy T. DrinkerKathy L. DudleyNancy C. DugganJams G. & Eugenia Dyess CollinsSharleene M. FarleyFritz & Suzanne FarringtonDaniel J. FrazierLori FriedmanMark A. & Tanya FullerDavid B. & Deborah A. GardnerHarold Garrett-GoodyearJohn & Shelley GibbonsAlan GilburgVirginia R. GoldsburySteven D. & Gay L. GoodwinAlfred L. & Sally GriggsHarold D. GrotevantLouise R. HammannWilliam M. HarrisJeffrey F. & Joyce M. HatchSarah L. HawesEric S. & Yehudit HellerBill HenryHoon HeoMarjorie R. Hess & Rudy J. TalaberEdward C. HullMarese HutchinsonVincent D. Jackson & Lisa GreenWillard M. JohnsonMark & Maxine KasdinJeffrey L. KaufmanMolly KeeganThomas J. Luck & Elizabeth A. KidderLisa R. Kittredge Susan P. KnappGeorge H. & Mary KnightlyRobyn L. KorengoldHalina A. & Neil P. KusleikaJanice R. & Boyd KynardMatthew & Julie Roman LacknerDiana MackenzieLewis C. & Caden MainzerMeryl A. Mandell & Stephen J. SmulskiRebecca MarkarianJames E. Marquis

Daniel M. & Ellen O. MelleyYvonne M. MendezMartin C. & Brenda Moore MillerJames E. MoesOnawumi J. MossRobyn Ann NewhouseRebecca Nordstrom Jeanne O’Connell, EA, CHFCDorothy V. ParsonsMicha & Naomi PelegMichael D. & Jane E. PlagerRobert A. & Jeanne PotashMarietta PritchardMonroe S. & Joan G. RabinEric & Nancy ReevesJudy RivardStephen V. SaiaBetsy SantanaAline G. SayerRobert SchmeckCathy A. Schoen &

Lawrence S. ZachariasBruce Schwartz & Kathy DuggasKathryn Pekala ServiceElizabeth A. SilverHoward R. SmithCraig SnyderPeter G. SpencerEric C. & Elizabeth A. StahlJoanne E. StanwayJack A. Szpiler & Colleen A. AhernMary TeichmanBetty Veres ThurstonPamela C. TillisMichele ToporDavid E. ValadeElizabeth J. Vastine & James TarmanJane VoglJames WallaceThomas A. & Christine WargerErnest WashingtonMrs. Nancy T. WinterSteven I. & Janis D. WolkenbreitBurton I. Woolf Ruth V. YankaJoshua S. YoumanJeanine Young-MasonBill & Marsha M. ZimmerMichele Zimmerman

BusinessesAlina’s RistoranteAmherst Golf ClubAmherst MassageAmy’s Place Bar & GrillBarnes FoundationBayside ResortBindertekBread & ButterCape Cod Museum of ArtCathy CrossChester Theatre CompanyColonial TheatreCrowne Plaza HotelD. Hotel & SuitesDanish Inspirations of Mass., Inc.Elements Hot Tub & SpaEric Carle Museum, TheGinger GardenGlimmerglass OperaGood Stock FarmGreen Artisans LLCGunstock Mountain ResortJeff DiCarlo Home ImprovementJudie’s RestaurantLord Jeffery InnNew Chapter, Inc.

Northampton Chamber of CommerceParadise City IncPioneer Valley ToursPivot Media, Inc.Platinum PonyRoscoe’sShakespeare & CompanySheraton Bradley HotelThe Lighthouse Inn Bed & BreakfastThe Textile Company, Inc.Valley Bike & Ski WerksVavstuga Swedish WeavingWEFT

FAN$50–$99

IndividualsRonald Ackerman & Cleo A. GormanSidney C. & Patricia P. AndersonGloria ArferWilliam BaczekEdgar Barrett & Christina L. Fulp BarrettPaul BermanJason BohonowicsCarolyn T. BurkholderAnthony CanataAllan C. CarpenterBarbara J. CarpenterGregory W. CenevivaGregory M. ChilenskiRika & William P. ClementWalter & Margery C. CoombsNicola M. Courtright & David A. LevineSylvia E. CuomoCharles & Leila K. DeRoseSharon L. DownsSusan M. EricksonRichard A. FleischerMelanie M. GalloBarbara J. GarabedianAlex & Batsheva GillatStephanie H. GodetteKathy J. Goos & Barry A. WerthJoann M. GriswoldChristine HannonDana T. HenryDoris R. Holden

Robert & Michelle B. JacksonEli Kwartler & Barbara JenkinsClifton JohnsonSusan D. JohnsonBill C. & Carol A. JollyCarol KaminskyBarbara KeeganMark Lange Robert M. & Patricia H. LaveryMs. Amy T. LaymanJoseph V. & Penny H. LeBlancStacey A. LennardKristen LuschenMaureen C. MaharStephen MaurerJohn D. McDougallPremachandran R. & Mira MenonCharlotte L. MeyerSusan B. MeyerDavid P. MillerGillian MorbeyKathleen Morrissey-MoriniDavid D. & Betsy MullinsGeorge B. & Cynthia L. NaughtonThomas P. NavinSusan M. NorrisRichard D. O’Brien &

Susan K. WhitbourneMrs. Jacquelyn T. O’HareJohn R. & Linda J. OveringMr. Nicholas L. PalermoAlexander & Harriet PollatsekPatricia C. Powers Cynthia Lee PurmortJames & Janice D. RatnerSharon K. RichardsMarion T. RosenauLinda E. SambelRobert E. SchultzAnne U. SciglianoMark C. SegalRavi S. & Premlata ShankavaramRobin B. SilvaMichael Simolo Elisha L. SimpsonLucia D. Spiro

Deborah A. Strong-TellierAlice SwiftJulie A. SylvesterIris M. & Ralph H. Tolbert, Jr.Phillip B. & Nancy G. TorreyMark E. TuttleRobert M. UrbankAlan K. Van TasselIan T. VukovichMonica J. WisnieskiMichael Wolff

FOUNDATIONS & ORGANIZATIONSAndy Warhol FoundationBement School, TheBoston Professional

Hockey AssociationBoston Red SoxCommunity Foundation of

Western MAFidelity Investments

Charitable Gift FoundationNational Writing ProjectNew England Foundation for the ArtsRuth K. & Ralph G. Webber

Family FoundationUMass Amherst Alumni AssociationUMass College of Natural SciencesVidda Foundation, The

MATCHING GIFTSAetna Foundation, Inc.Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation GFPFidelity InvestmentsGeneral Electric FundLucent Technologies FoundationMass Mutual Life Insurance Co.Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.New Alliance FoundationPeoplesBankPrice Waterhouse Coopers

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Patron ServicesRefreshmentsConcessions are available before the performance and during intermission for most Center Series Concert Hall events. For patrons in our wheelchair section, please notify an usher and they will be happy to bring the refreshments to you. RestroomsRestrooms are located on the lower level of the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall adjacent to the University Gallery and in the Concert Hall main lobby. When available there are additional restrooms in the Rand Theater area. Fully accessible restrooms are available in the Concert Hall and Bowker Auditorium. Restrooms in the Concert Hall for the mobility impaired are located in the lobby and the refuge area outside section 3 on house right.

Drinking FountainsDrinking fountains are located on the lower level of the Concert Hall near the restrooms and in the lobby.

Late SeatingPatrons arriving after the start of the performance will be seated at an appropriate break and at the house manager’s discretion.

Pagers and Cell PhonesPlease turn off all pagers and cell phones when entering the concert hall.

On Call ServiceDoctors and persons needing emergency call service are asked to leave their name and seat location with the box office. If you keep a cell phone or pager with you, please use the silent, vibration option.

Cameras and Recording DevicesThe taking of photographs or recording the performance in any way is strictly prohibited.

ATMThe nearest ATM bank machine is located in the Newman Center and on the lower level in the the Campus Center.

For Hearing-Impaired Patrons Assisted listening devices: Induction loops and headsets are available for patrons with hearing impairments and may be checked out with an ID in the lobby prior to the performance. Compatible with most ALS systems and in compliance with the ADA. A credit card, driver’s license, or valid student ID will be held as security while devices are in use.

Emergency ClosingIn case of emergency, the lighted, red, exit sign near your seat is the shortest route to the exterior of the building. For your safety, please check the location of the exit closest to your seat and review the evacuation map included in this playbill. Also, follow the directions provided by the ushers.

Accessible ParkingAn access-parking permit or plates must be visible to parking attendants.

For Your Viewing PleasureCheck out what’s on view in the University Museum of Contemporary Art. The University Museum is located on the lower level of the Concert Hall and is open one hour prior to the start of performances and during intermission. The Museum is also open to the public Tuesday through Friday, 11am to 4:30pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 2 to 5pm.

Performance CancellationFine Arts Center performances are rarely canceled and only in the case of severe weather. If a performance is canceled, you can call the Box Office at 1-800-999-UMAS or 545-2511 or tune in to the following radio and television stations: public radio station WFCR 88.5FM, WHMP 99.9FM, WRSI 95.3FM, WFSB CBS 3 and WGGB-TV40. If a performance is canceled, patrons may exchange tickets for another event (subject to availability), may receive a credit on their account, or may request a refund.

Please recycle your playbill in the lobby.

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