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MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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Officers

Margaret Elrod, PresidentCharlton (Havard) Lyons, IV, Vice PresidentRobert Crawford, TreasurerLaura McLemore, Secretary Margaret Shehee, Member at Large

Board Members

Eugene BrysonLeigh Anne ChambersAnil ChhabraJennifer ElliottGinger FlournoyKnox GoodmanRozelle HahnBrian HebertPaul JordanJazmin JerniganErica LedetJerard MartinSharon McGivneySherry PendleyRebecca RadfordJoe RiceWendell Riley Holly RocaWilliam SaleLibby SiskronAnne Wilson

Ex-Officio

Theresa BridgesMichael ButtermanAlyce LabanicsLois RobinsonRick RowellLester Wilson

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To say that 2020 and this symphony season have been something we’ve not experienced before would be the greatest of understatements.

The year 2020 has been an extraordinarily frightening, exhausting, uncertain, and sad year for all of us. I applaud the musicians, the maestro, and symphony management and my board peers for stepping up to the plate and adapting to the pandemic and its effects in creative and meaningful ways. From parking lot productions to virtual concerts both streamed and televised, they have truly lived up to the mantra of “the show must go on.” I think the pandemic, as tragic as it has been, has caused us to think outside the box and do things that we might not have considered in more normal times.

As vaccines become more widely distributed, we hope to be able, before too long after this writing, to present live concerts while adhering to the capacity, social distancing, and masking guidelines that are a vital part of mitigation measures.

We look forward to being with you physically in the future, but in the meantime, we will continue to be with you virtually. We appreciate your support during these tenuous times. You have shown your faith and confidence in us as well as how much you appreciate the symphony’s value to our community.

We cannot thank you enough for that.

Warmly,

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

In this year like no other, the importance of music has never been clearer. It is a sacred oasis from the mundane and chaotic, as well as a way to express that which is otherwise inexpressible. It connects us, spiritually, to a higher plane, and connects us, emotionally, to one another by reminding us of our shared human experience.

The challenges to live music presented by the pandemic are significant, but so, too, is society’s need for the benefits it provides. Fortunately, with every crisis comes opportunity—a chance to adapt and reinvent—and we are “leaning in” to the current moment with our re-imagined programming tailored to these unprecedented times. From televised Independence Day and Holiday programs to our re-imagined Willis-Knighton Masterworks Series, we are working to keep the music playing for our community.

We are grateful, once again, to have First Baptist Church as our temporary home. Its video capabilities allow us to take you “inside” the performance like never before, whether you are attending in person or streaming the concert from home. Programming that makes use of more intimate ensembles provides us the opportunity to bring you gems like the brilliant original scoring of Copland’s Appalachian Spring and the splendor of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in a fascinating chamber reduction.

Your SSO is here for you in times of celebration, as well as times of struggle. Great music sustains and uplift us, nourishingour souls and strengthening our resolve. Together, we will ‘keep the music playing’ and look forward to brighter days in the near future.

Yours,

Michael Butterman

WELCOME FROM MICHAEL BUTTERMAN

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Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. In addition to his artistic leadership of the Shreveport Symphony, he serves as Music Director for the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, whom he has led to national prominence, resulting in an invitation to open the Kennedy Center’s inaugural SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras in 2017. He is also the Music Director of the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, an orchestra uniquely focused on music education. He has recently completed a 19-year association with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as their Principal Conductor for Education and Community Engagement, and a 15-year tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony, first as Associate, and then as Resident Conductor.

As a guest conductor, Mr. Butterman has led many of the country’s preeminent ensembles, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony and Houston Symphony. In the 2019-20 season, he returns to the National Symphony on several occasions for performances at the Kennedy Center, and leads the North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony in a program featuring a new work by Grammy-nominated composer Chris Brubeck.

Other recent appearances include performances with the Colorado Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, California Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, El Paso Symphony, Mobile Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Pensacola Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera and Victoria Symphony (British Columbia). Summer appearances include Tanglewood, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia.

Mr. Butterman gained international attention as a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev International Conducting Competition and as a finalist in the prestigious Besançon International Conducting Competition. As the recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa, and shared the podium with Ozawa to lead the season’s opening concert. Earlier, Mr. Butterman was sponsored by UNESCO to lead the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova in a concert of music by great American masters.

For six seasons, Mr. Butterman served as Music Director of Opera Southwest in Albuquerque, NM. During much of that time, he was also Director of Orchestral Studies at the LSU School of Music and was Principal Conductor of the LSU Opera Theater. Previously, he held the post of Associate Conductor of the Columbus Pro Musica Orchestra, and served as Music Director of the Chamber Opera, Studio Opera, and Opera Workshop at the Indiana University School of Music. As its Associate Music Director, he led the Ohio Light Opera through two festivals, conducting over 35 performances each summer.

At Indiana University, Mr. Butterman conducted a highly acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein’s little-known 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a series of performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, receiving unanimous praise from such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Variety, and USA Today. He was subsequently invited to New York at the request of the Bernstein estate to prepare a performance of a revised version of the work.

Michael Butterman’s work has been featured in six nationwide broadcasts on American Public Media’s Performance Today. He can be heard on two CDs recorded for the Newport Classics label and on a new disc in which he conducts the Rochester Philharmonic and collaborates with actor John Lithgow. www.michaelbutterman.com

MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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Winner of the 2019 Silver Medal from the Global Music Awards, Kermit Poling is an inspiring and passionate voice in American music. The classical music magazine Fanfare wrote, “the Romantic spirit lives, breathes and flourishes in Kermit Poling,” remarking on his “quite natural musicianship” and a “Schubertian gift for melody.” Indeed, Kermit’s talents encompass conducting and composition along with years of virtuoso violin performances.

After 24 seasons as Music Director of the South Arkansas Symphony, 34 seasons as the Shreveport Symphony’s Associate Conductor, 27 years as SSO Concertmaster, and his many seasons as music director of the Marshall Symphony Orchestra and the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet, few audiences in the Ark-La-Tex are unaware of his many talents.

Kermit conducts worldwide, with his compositions also performed throughout the world. In January 2017 he conducted his debut recording with the London Symphony Orchestra for an album of his compositions for the Centaur label. Fanfare described the release as “a fabulous disc, splendidly recorded and executed.” He has been featured with the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta, the Orchestra of the Province of Lecco in Italy, the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico, the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, the Shenzhen Symphony of China, and many other orchestras across the world and in the United States.

Poling’s compositions have excited audiences everywhere. His Symphony No. 1 “Shreveport Symphony” was premiered by the SSO and Michael Butterman in 2016. His string quartet, Within the Orb of Glories Wearing, received its international television debut in February 2017 on the EWTN cable network. Ballet companies throughout the United States such as Ballet Des Moines, the University of Hartford, Ballet Oklahoma and The Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia have commissioned and performed his works,

including Snow White, (originally composed for Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet), Peter Pan, Prince Charming, and Beauty and the Beast. The Pennsylvania Ballet debuted Fairy Rhymes last season and Ballet Des Moines premiered The Beautiful Mermaid. His work, No Sound of Trumpet nor Roll of Drum, was premiered in was featured in Symphony Magazine. His score to the silent film Tarzan of the Apes and for the documentary Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle won accolades across the country.

Poling received the Outstanding Artist in Music Fellowship in 2000 from the State of Louisiana and twice received a Music Fellowship from the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. Maestro Poling studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Gustav Meier and Seiji Ozawa. In 2012, he was awarded a career advancement award from the State of Louisiana.

Kermit Poling has been a featured conductor on Performance Today, the Arkansas Educational Television Network, the Red River Radio Network, WGBH Boston and has appeared as violinist on Louisiana Public Television and PBS in addition to numerous television and radio stations throughout the country. He has served on the faculty of Centenary College, Texarkana Community College, the Boston Conservatory and the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. Away from the concert stage, he is choirmaster and organist at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Bossier City, LA, and is the General Manager and well-known classical music voice of Red River Radio (KDAQ Public Radio).

KERMIT POLING, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

ViolinKirsten Yon, ConcertmasterElizabeth O’Bannon, Resident Concertmaster

Rachel BundyHenry EdwardsChristopher ReedDaniel SantelicesJanis Adams TeagueKristin CampbellJennifer CarsilloLaura CrawfordKermit Poling (Asst. Conductor)

ViolaBorys Smolaga, PrincipalAdrienne GabrielMichael DrobyckiMichele Gunn

CelloCourtenay Vandiver Pereira, PrincipalDavid JankowskiBrett AndrewsRuth DrummondEliot Haas

BassJustin Kujawski, PrincipalKirby NunezLois Robinson

FluteLeslie Daniel NewmanSally Horak

OboeTheresa Zale Bridges, PrincipalAbigail HawthorneKristin Perry

ClarinetJake Hale, PrincipalSandra Clark

Bassoon Ann Shoemaker, PrincipalJonathan CastilloJorge Cruz

Saxophone Trevor CulpPaul Forsyth

HornThomas Hundemer, PrincipalAdam BlackKristine CoreilJames Boldin

Trumpet Rick Rowell, PrincipalMike Scarlato

TromboneMichael Davidson, PrincipalAdam Johnson

Bass TromboneJ. Mark Thompson, Principal

TubaSteven Curtis, Principal

TimpaniChandler Teague, Principal

PercussionChandler Teague, PrincipalAnthony Robinson

PianoRobert CruzGay Grosz

HarpJanel Hector

Musicians are represented by Local 116, AFM, AFL-CIO

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Technician Staff

Master Audio EngineerRob Whited

Master CarpenterSyd Hydro

Master ElectricianMatt Dickerson

Master FlymanSteve Pyatt

Property Master/ Technical DirectorDebbie Graham

Stage Employees are represented by Local 298, IATSE, AFL-CIO

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SSO ANNUAL FUND DONORS

Platinum Baton— $10,000 (+)AnonymousAnonymous The Alta & John Franks FoundationAccess Health Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford IIIMrs. Ike Muslow

Gold Baton— $7,500-$9,999David and Margarett Shehee

ColeMrs. Pearla T. DespotThe Jack Webster Grigsby

Foundation

Silver Baton— $5,000-$7,499AnonymousJohn E. & Lindsay AtkinsMr. & Mrs. George A. Baldwin, Jr.Carl & Shirley BernofskyThe Community Foundation - Ann V. and Robert C. Leitz III Donor Advised FundThe Crow FoundationMr. and Mrs. James K. ElrodKnox M. GoodmanSandra K. HandNellie G. and Charlton Havard Lyons IVThe Magale FoundationKen & Sharon McGivneyMrs. J. Frederick PattenThe J.B. Atkins FoundationMr. & Mrs. Donald W. Weir, Jr.

Bronze Baton— $2,500-$4,999AnonymousAnonymousDr. Dale Bauman and Ms. Paula LeonardCamellia Trading CompanyThe Community Foundation - Flournoy-Courtney Family Donor Advised Fund

Mr. Paul DeTelloMr. & Mrs. William FlanaganDr. & Mrs. Larry HillerHollisann and Sidney KentDr. & Mrs. Charles MoffetCynthia A. MurrayLois Robinson and Crozet DuplantierDr. & Mrs. Phillip A. RozemanShane SheheeMargaret Stagg SourMarion Weiss

Conductor Circle— $1,000-$2,499Mr. Joe M. BadtDr. Grace BareikisDr. & Mrs. Shane BartonDr. & Mrs. Jack BergDrs. Ernest and LaWanda BlakeneyBarbara (Bobbie) BrasherSandra BreithauptFrank & Suzzanne BrightThe Honorable and Mrs. Eugene W. Bryson, Jr.Jane & John D. Caruthers, Jr.Mrs. Lo B. Cassidy and Beverly Cassidy BrookeThe Community Foundation - Smith Family Donor Advised FundThe Community Foundation - Walter-Poljak Donor Advised FundDrs. Neera & Anil ChhabraThe Cat DoctorDr. Megan Conway & Mr. Calvin HeadMr. & Mrs. Stanton DossettMarletta EddyDr. & Mrs. John EplingGlenn & Ginger FlournoyIvy and Archer FriersonGladys & Ed Hurley FoundationDayne and Kathy HassellBrian A. HebertJohn HusseyDr. & Mrs. Paul A. Jordan

Col. Shirley Kelley-Heim & Mr. Jesse Heim, IIIMr. and Mrs. Glenn V. KinseyMr. & Mrs. Charles R. LabanicsCarole & William LacefieldDr. & Mrs. Robert T. LafargueDr. Jerard R. MartinDr. & Mrs. Bill McColgan, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. McDonaldPaul and Betty McDonald FoundationMr. & Mrs. Harry E. McInnis, Jr.Laura Lyons McLemoreDeborah MonarchLinda Nall, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr.Stephen and Constance PajeskiMr. & Mrs. Carl PendleyJoe & Stella RiceMs. Dorothy RivetteHolly RocaDoug SchaumburgMandel Selber, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R. Shanley Jr.Nell SheheeThe Nelson FoundationGay and Al VekoviusDr. Holly WallDrs. Robert & Lisa WalterDr. & Mrs. Richard WigleMrs. J. Woodfin Wilson, Jr.Wright Family Trust

Concertmaster Circle—$500-$999Anonymous Mary & Dick BremerMr. & Mrs. Vernon Chance, Jr.Ms. Ann SpikesArthur & Margaret ThompsonLinda DowlingDebbie GrahamReverend Pike ThomasDennis and Susan WebbEileen and Mike AdkinsTookie & Baker BarrCarolyn W. and Charles T.

Beaird Family Foundation

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ButterfieldThe Community Foundation -

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SummersScott & Ginger LoweDr. & Mrs. James E. LuskGeoff and Martha ManginJerry & Allison MontgomeryMs. Patricia A. O’BrienMargaret Leary OdenDee and Carol PetersonLt. Col. & Mrs. Michael J.

Petrosh Jr.Janie RichardsonDr. and Mrs. Rick RowellCraig & Judy StorerMartha StorerCol. & Mrs. David ThomsonMr. & Mrs. G.W. Van HooseDr. & Mrs. Seborn Woods

Principal Circle—$200-$499Ability Air Conditioning, INCDr. Glen AdkinsAnonymous Anonymous Anonymous AnonymousJudy AustinBancorpSouthHelen L. BatesMrs. Oscar Lee Berry, Jr.Mrs. Harold R. BicknellDrs. Steven & Diana BienvenuJoseph A. Bocchini Jr. MD

Rick and Laurie BoswellKitty and Charles BoydJudith K. CauseyDr. & Mrs. David CavanaughDrs. David & Carol ClemonsU. L. Coleman CompaniesDoctors Paul and Danielle CooperBrian and Stacey CrawfordJordan & Callie DeanMr. & Mrs. Hubert DeboMr. and Mrs Paul DerousseMarilyn M. DeupreeDr. Jerry & Ruth DrummondRichard EglinSue FordMrs. Sally GardnerJeanette and David GarrettGreg & Peggy GavinMr. & Mrs. Joseph GloriosoDr. & Mrs. Warren D. GraftonAnnette and Mike HallMike and Whittney HarperMrs. Sam Bailey Hicks IIIGene and Ellen HuggsPhil & Virginia IsraelMr. Glenn I. JacksonMr. & Mrs. Bernard JohnsonPatricia JonesMrs. Jane LawKurt & Patti LeyMrs. Charlton H. Lyons, Jr.Andy and Dianne MappMrs. Ann C. MayMr. & Mrs. Thomas McElroy, Jr.Mrs. Lottie M. McGuireMichael and Susan MuseMr. & Mrs. Robert Neff Jr.D. Keith & Cynthia PayneAlex and Rebecca RadfordAshok and Sudha RaoJohn and Joy RatcliffRetail Merchants AssociationHerschel and Doris RiceDr. Sandra C. RoerigMs. Elizabeth ScalfMr. and Mrs. Phillip R. SemonDr. and Mrs. F. Thomas SiskronElizabeth StephensGary A. and Susan Taylor

The Community Foundation - Katherine S. Tyrrell FundJohnette WatermanDr. and Mrs. Steven WhitedMrs. Louise Pons WilliamsSuzanne WilliamsSusan WoodCraig S. WoodringJack and Audrey Zahm

Associate— $100-$199Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael AdamsAnonymous Anonymous Mrs. June ApplewhiteMs. Susan BairnsfatherDr. Brian BasingerMr. & Mrs. Eric BatesKathryn M. BeairdKelly BeatyDr. George Belchic, Jr.Gretchen BellDr. & Mrs. James R. BergeronAmy BokenfohrSarah BoswellJeff BrainardDr. Gale W. BridgerAllyson BrooksLara & David BryanKenneth CaldwellMax and Magan CauseyDr. & Mrs. Judd H. ChidlowSylvia ClaytonMr. & Mrs. Robert S. CochranMaria ColonDr. & Mrs. David CookseyJean CooperVeronica CzarzastyJohn H. DoakJeanne StreetDr. & Mrs. Richard DrummondCarolyn S. FlemingCharles FowlerGeorge FritzePeggy Geddes and Sharon GeddesJohn GoddardAnn and Dave GrahamBarbara Gramling

SSO ANNUAL FUND DONORS (continued)

Laura GregorioDicky & Sally GriederDeborah G. GriffithDr. Tobin H. GrisgbyDavid and Susan GrossMichael & Deborah HaleMinette HaynesDr. and Mrs. Sanders F. HearneMr. David HeningtonMrs. E. R. HensleyMs. Blanche HirschVirginia R. HoustonLisa HunterDorothy JarzabekJeanette M. and David L. LayMerrilee Streun LeathermanCharles and Diane LibroJames LuDr. Aubrey & Joan LurieDebby MacyMr. and Mrs. Rodney MathewMr. and Mrs. Truly W. McDanielJames and Velma McLellandBeverly MillerMr. & Mrs. Mansour Mirfakhraee

Mr. and Mrs. Curt MitchellMr. and Mrs. Scott and Randee MonceauxMrs. Marianne MostellerDr. Anil and Laura NandaJane and Dale OlsanMr. & Mrs. O. Michael OwensMitzi PerryPatricia PinckardDr. & Mrs. Donald PosnerJoan H. PotterAmy Quinn and Bill McGillTommy and Kay RabonWendell RileyMr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Sayres, Jr.Tommy SeabaughBarbara SemonGeorge SewellBeejal ShahMrs. Eleanor S. ShupingDr. John ToddSam Medica and Andrew TwymanTerry and Kathryn WillisMrs. James W. WoodDonna Wyatt

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SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY AGENCY ENDOWMENT FUND

Held by the Community Foundation Of North Louisiana

In calendar 2016, the Shreveport Symphony was challenged by the Community Foundation of North Louisiana via the Carolyn Q. Nelson Endowment Challenge to raise $100,000 to establish a new agency endowment fund. The terms of the challenge called for a matching $100,000 donation to be made by the Community Foundation if the new fund had a total of $100,000 or more deposited by December 31, 2016.

We are thrilled to announce that we met the terms and raised the $100,000 with the extremely generous support of the following Founding Donors:

Matching DonorThe Community Foundation of North Louisiana

Founding Donors to Meet the Carolyn Q. Nelson Endowment Challenge

MaestriAnonymous

SoloistsMrs. D. R. JamesPeggy and Charlton Lyons

PrincipalsCharles, Michael, and Stephen McCord and the Rick McCord FamilyDavid and Margaret Shehee ColeDr. Rozelle Hahn Mrs. Sybil J. PattenKen and Sharon McGivney

Assistant Principals Nellie and Havard LyonsBerte and Ike MuslowGeorge and Jean BaldwinDr. Anil and Laura NandaMickel and Emily HustedCarl and Sherry PendleyMrs. J. Woodfin Wilson, Jr.

MEMORIALS & HONORARIUMS

Memorials (1/1/20-1/20/21)

In Memory of William T. AdamsEleanor R. Sockrider

In Memory of Luci BondThe Doctors Lucienne and Joe Simon

In Memory of Ray BoswellMr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford IIIMr. Scott Green and Robert D. Smith

In Memory of Joe CageWayne Buckley

In Memory of William CarsilloJean BanfieldLouise W. EpsteinDr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III

In Memory of Sheila ChumleyMr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr.

In Memory of Winburn CurlinStan Hancock

In Memory of O. Delton HarrisonMr. & Mrs. Robert LeitzMrs. Tom Stagg

In Memory of Dr. James S. Harrold, Jr. Mrs. Sandra Harrold

In Memory of Bruce Henderson Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III

In Loving Memory of Sarah HollandHarold T. Holland

In Memory of Mary McCordMr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford III

In Memory of Carolyn Murov AnonymousJames and Martha Cirilli Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford IIIDr. & Mrs. Larry HillerMr. Scott Green and Robert D. Smith Madeline HolderJean Y. LasterMr. and Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr.Janie RichardsonMr. & Mrs. Donald W. Weir, Jr.

In Memory of Dr. Ike Muslow Ms. Elizabeth B. Beck Dr. George Belchic, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford III

Mr. & Mrs. Quintin T. Hardtner, IIIDr. & Mrs. Larry HillerDr. & Mrs. Robert T. LafargueMr. & Mrs. Robert LeitzDon & Maurice Wilkins

In Memory of Alicia Pineda Larry and Olivia Hiller

In Memory of Larry PledgerMr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr.

In Memory of Jo Ann PughDr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III

In Memory of Billy Jean Reasor Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert R. Shanley Jr.

In Memory of Peyton Shehee and Virginia SheheeMichael and Judilyn Wise

In Memory of Virginia SheheeThe Doctors Lucienne and Joe Simon

In Memory of Bitsy Smith Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III

In Memory of Martha SmithMr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. O. Michael OwensBarbara Stinson

In Memory of Sam W. SmithCommunity Foundation – Smith Family Donor Advised Fund

In Memory of Dr. William TeagueTookie & Baker Barr Drs. Ernest and LaWanda BlakeneyLisa and Alvin Childs, Jr.Kathleen EllisMr. Scott Green and Robert D. SmithLinda Luck Insurance AgencyJanie RichardsonDr. & Mrs. Rick RowellJohn M. Shuey, Jr.

In Memory of Dr. William and Lucille Teague Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Labanics

In Memory of Donald Zadeck Mrs. Tom Stagg

In Memory of Carol Zaffater Mr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr.

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The Four Seasons, RecomposedSaturday, January 30, 2021 7:30 PM Virtual Event Livestreamed from First Baptist Church of ShreveportMichael Butterman, conductorFrancisco Fullana

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending Arranged for string orchestra by Adam Johnson

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MAX RICHTER Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Recomposed Spring I, II, III Summer I, II, III Autumn I, II, III Winter I, II, III

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

About Francisco Fullana

Spanish-born violinist Francisco Fullana, winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, has been hailed as a “rising star” (BBC Music Magazine), an “amazing talent” (conductor Gustavo Dudamel) and “frighteningly awesome” (Buffalo News).

A native of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain, Francisco is making a name for himself as both a performer and a leader of innovative educational institutions. As an orchestral soloist he has performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Bayerische Philharmonie led by the late Sir Colin Davis, the Sibelius Concerto with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, and the Brahms Violin Concerto with Venezuela’s Teresa Carreño Orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. He has also soloed with the City of Birmingham, Vancouver, Pacific, Alabama and Madrid Symphonies as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Spanish Radio Television Orchestra.

Active as a chamber musician, Francisco has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. His musical collaborators have included Midori, Viviane Hagner, Nobuko Imai, Charles Neidich, Mitsuko Uchida, and members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Takács and Cleveland quartets.

Highlights of Francisco’s recent and upcoming orchestral engagements include debuts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Tucson, Miami and Springfield Symphony Orchestras, and Argentina’s National Orchestra. Recital debuts this season also include the Phillips Collection and Palm Beach’s

Kravis Center, as well as two tours of eastern China and Japan.

Francisco was recently named artist in residence of the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra for the 2021-24 seasons, being in charge of curating and leading conductorless programs and the new festival ‘Lincoln Center in Mallorca,’ a weeklong series of annual performances with artists from Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society. The first edition will take place this June, culminating with a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto under Pablo Mielgo alongside Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s directors David Finckel and Wu Han to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary.

Orchid Classics recently released Francisco’s recording “Through the Lens of Time,” which includes Max Richter’s 2012 composition The Four Seasons Recomposed performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Izcaray. This ambitious project, recently named Forbes’ CD of the Week and featured as the #1 Classical Track on Apple Music, carries forward from its modern reconsideration of Vivaldi’s beloved classic with a series of contemporary solo works for violin that also shine a new light on the Baroque musical tradition.

Francisco received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School following studies with Donald Weilerstein and Masao Kawasaki, and holds an Artist Diploma from the USC Thornton School of Music. He currently performs on the 1735 “Mary Portman” ex-Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin, kindly on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.franciscofullana.com

Both compositions on tonight’s program were inspired by poems about nature, and they reveal the close connection between music and the other arts, as well as sights and sounds of the external world.

RALPH VAUGHN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) The Lark Ascending Arranged for string orchestra by Adam Johnson

Vaughn Williams was born into a prominent English family that included well-known figures like Charles Darwin and Josiah Wedgewood. As a child, he took lessons in piano, violin, and organ. After receiving degrees from the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge, he studied composition with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris.

But Vaughn Williams’s interests extended beyond writing music. He worked as a conductor, served as a church organist, taught school for a while, and collected and edited hundreds of English folksongs. He was also fond of literature, especially poetry, and as a native of the Cotswolds, he loved the English countryside.

While seeking to forge his own compositional identity, Vaughn Williams consciously rejected imitation of European models and returned to his English roots. All of his interests come together in The Lark Ascending, a short, one-movement work originally written in 1914 for violin and piano. He later recast the work for solo violin and orchestra, scoring it for woodwinds, strings, two horns, and triangle (the only percussion instrument), and this version is better known than the original. In 2013, British conductor and pianist Adam Johnson made an arrangement for solo violin, string orchestra and triangle, and this is the version we hear tonight.

Inspired by George Meredith’s poem of the same name, Vaughn Williams musically

portrays a soaring bird in flight. The solo violin has trills and wide-sweeping melodies, suggesting birdlike sounds and movements. Truly remarkable, though, are the free-flowing rhythms in the numerous violin cadenzas, and this sense of unfettered movement pervades the entire composition. Interspersed throughout the piece are contrasting episodes of new melodies supplied by the woodwinds. The work closes with an unaccompanied violin cadenza that reaches two octaves above the treble staff before dropping down a third lower. The overall effect is one of tranquility and grace.

The Lark Ascending was written on the eve of World War I, leading some critics today to suggest the music seems imbued with nostalgia, perhaps even a tinge of sadness. Although this may be true, we should also recognize that the unusual musical qualities―rhythmic freedom, which was revolutionary at that time, and beautiful modal melodies―blend perfectly with nature and poetry. The result is a composition that occupies a truly unique niche in violin/orchestral literature.

© Program note by Dr. La Wanda J. Blakeney MAX RICHTER (1966- )Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Recomposed

Composer Max Richter is part of Deutsche Grammophon’s acclaimed Recomposed series, in which contemporary artists are invited to re-work a traditional piece of music.

The idea of recomposing and re-processing musical works was common practice in Vivaldi’s time and the project presents an exciting opportunity to make favorite classics relevant to a wider audience. However, Richter’s approach differs fundamentally from the preceding releases: in contrast to previous participants who reworked recordings from the extensive Deutsche Grammophon catalogue, Richter actually ‘recomposed’ Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. He is the first in the series to

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employ an existing score, ‘inscribe’ his new composition into Vivaldi’s and record a ‘new’ version of a familiar work, thus creating a new hybrid work.

Like many composers Richter was always fascinated by Vivaldi’s 1725 composition because “The Four Seasons is an omni-present piece of music and like no other part of our musical landscape.” But he was also aware that for many, including himself, it had long ago ceased to be something of beauty and had instead become an ever present piece of muzak “You hear it in the supermarket regularly, you’re confronted with it in adverts or hear it as muzak when on hold. Slowly you begin to blank it out.” Richter yearned to reconnect with the piece and to re-start the conversation on Vivaldi’s work, and he sought to do so in an accessible style that mirrored Vivaldi’s intentions with the piece, rather than to place a 20th-century Modernist imprint on it. “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mine shaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.” In order to do this Richter wrote an entirely new score and recorded it with Daniel Hope and The Konzerthaus Kammerorchester in Berlin.

Richter calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of Vivaldi’s original. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do with the bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of

our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: Richter describes part of the first movement of his Summer as “heavy music for the orchestra. It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has; and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn’t want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles’ Abbey Road.”

Clearly, Richter has brought his own frame of reference to the project. As he says, “Vivaldi’s music is made of regular patterns, and that connects with post-minimalism, which is one strand in the music that I write. That felt like a natural link, but even so it was surprisingly difficult to navigate my way through it. At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.” Just as Richter’s Seasons plays tricks with the way we hear Vivaldi’s original, so it also asks questions of the soloist. “Violinists have Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons hardwired in their brain. [A soloist] is likely to play the original I don’t know how many times in a year, and for him to have my parallel text going on in another part of his brain is a challenge.”

Adapted from the booklet text for the Recomposed release, written by Nick Kimberley.

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PROKOFIEV AND BRAHMSSun., May 16, 3 PMFirst Baptist Shreveport Yevgeny Yontov, piano; Jake Hale, clarinet; Jennifer Carsillo and Rachel Bundy, violins; Borys Smolaga, viola; John-Henry Crawford, cello

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