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34 Week 21 Opera: The Cunning Little Vixen May 17, 20, 22, 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Introducing the Concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Director’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Janáček: The Composer Who Almost

Didn’t Conquer the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 The Cunning Little Vixen:

Opera in Three Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Singers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Creative Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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34 Week 21 Opera: The Cunning Little Vixen May 17, 20, 22, 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Introducing the Concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Director’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Janáček: The Composer Who Almost

Didn’t Conquer the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 The Cunning Little Vixen:

Opera in Three Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Singers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Creative Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

48 Support Sound for the Centennial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Corporate Annual Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Foundation / Government Annual Support . . . 75 Individual Annual Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

90 Future Concerts Concert Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Upcoming Concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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The Cleveland Orchestra is proud of its long-term partnership with Kent State University, made possible in part through generous funding from the State of Ohio.

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Two of this season’s major projects take place in May — following many months of planning and much preparation. The first is the pre-miere here at Severance Hall of our brand-new, made-for-Cleveland production of Leoš Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen, with eve-ning performances on May 17, 20, and 22, and a special matinee on Saturday, May 24. At the same time, from May 17 to 24, the Orchestra

is celebrating a week of musicmaking in Lakewood during our second “At Home” neighbor-hood residency. Together, these two projects showcase our commitment to serving the community with diverse performances and collaborative partnerships.

Franz Welser-Möst is at the center of both projects. In addition to leading the performances of Vixen, he will conduct an Education Concert for Lakewood High School students on May 23 and the culminating free public concert of our “At Home” in Lakewood residency on Saturday evening, May 24, bringing to a close an action-packed week of music performances, commu-nity activities, and public musical get-togethers. Every day of that week, Cleveland Orchestra musicians are involved in exciting and sometimes unexpected ways to bring music to the streets and homes of Lakewood, and into the lives of its citizens. The week’s presentations and collaborations also bring to a close the residency’s special semester-long involvement with Lakewood’s music education programs.

Franz has also been instrumental in integrating opera into The Cleveland Orchestra’s annual schedule at Severance Hall. This season, with The Cunning Little Vixen, we are creating our own brand-new operatic production for the first time since the mid-1980s. For this, we are jumping forward with technology, to create a presentation that compellingly combines live action with projected video animation. Working with director Yuval Sharon and the creative team at Ro-bot Studios in Los Angeles, we are building this innovative production from the ground up.

Because of the unique nature of this opera production for The Cleveland Orchestra and Northeast Ohio, we are using new ways to communicate the excitement of this undertaking. A series of video “Production Diaries” about The Making of The Cunning Little Vixen is unfold-ing online. These videos feature behind-the-scenes looks at the creative team and processes in motion. I hope that you will take a few minutes to see what’s in store for you at Severance Hall in May. Visit clevelandorchestra.com to view these using the homepage link.

It takes concentrated effort, many hands, and dedicated focus to do all of this. Not just from the Orchestra musicians, staff, trustees and other volunteers, but from the community surrounding us, supporting us, and collaborating with us. Our neighborhood residencies are created at the grassroots level. This year’s partnerships with businesses, schools, and organizations from across Lakewood have been stimulating and creative. The opera pro-duction is also possible only through the collaboration of many, with support from gener-ous donors, including The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a group of local donors who have responded to this Foundation’s matching gift challenge to support our ongoing opera presentations. Thank you to everyone involved.

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i n P e r f o r m a n c e s a t h o m e and around the globe, The Cleveland Orchestra remains Northeast Ohio’s most visible international ambassador and one of the most soughtafter performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each summer’s Blossom Music Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and active community engagement. With the 201314 season, Franz WelserMöst marks his twelfth year leading the ensemble, with a commitment extending to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. This artistic partnership continues to move the ensemble forward through a series of new and ongoing initiatives, including:

expansion of education and community programs in Northeast Ohio to feature music as an integral and regular part of everyday life for more people, including the launch in 2013 of an “At Home” neighborhood residency program that brings The Cleveland Orchestra to a single neighborhood or town for an intensive period of special activities and performances, as well as the broaden

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DRIVING THROUGH SEVERANCE HALL. When Severance Hall opened on February 5, 1931, the building featured a drivethrough for passenger drop-off and pick-up in operation in the 1930s. Later closed and used as restaurant space, the area became the Smith Lobby, with new restrooms and ticket office space, during the building renovations in 1999-2000.

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ing of the Orchestra’s ongoing education and community engagement initiatives to include Make Music!, a program of active and participatory experience and learning;

the establishment of residencies around the world, fostering creative artistic growth and an expanded financial base — including ongoing residencies at the

Vienna Musik verein (the first of its kind by an American orchestra) and in Florida under the name Cleveland Orch estra Miami (featuring an annual series of concerts and community activities, coupled with educational presentations and collaborations based on programs pioneered at home in Cleveland);

creative new artistic collaborations with arts institutions in Northeast Ohio, including staged works, concerts, and chamber music performances; a concentrated and successful effort to develop future generations of audiences

for Cleveland Orchestra concerts in Northeast Ohio, through research, targeted discounts, social media promotion, and student ticket programs, with demonstrated results at Severance Hall and Blossom;

a variety of new concert offerings (including staged opera and ballet, as well as KeyBank Fridays@7 and Celebrity Series at Severance Hall and movie, themed, and family presentations at Blossom) to play more music for more people;

continuing and expanded educational partnerships with schools, colleges, and universities across Northeast Ohio and beyond;

ongoing recording activities, including new releases under the direction of Franz WelserMöst, Mitsuko Uchida, and Pierre Boulez, as well as a series of acclaimed DVD concert presentations of symphonies by Anton Bruckner led by WelserMöst.

The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens intent on creating an ensemble worthy of joining America’s ranks of major symphony orchestras. Over the ensuing decades, the Orchestra quickly grew from a fine regional organization to being one of the most admired symphony orchestras in the world. Seven music directors have guided and shaped the ensemble’s growth and sound: Nikolai Soko loff, 191833; Artur Rodzinski, 193343; Erich Leins dorf, 194346; George Szell, 194670; Lorin Maazel, 197282; Christoph von Dohnányi, 19842002; and Franz WelserMöst, since 2002. The opening in 1931 of Severance Hall as the Orchestra’s permanent home, with later acoustic refinements and remodeling of the hall under Szell’s guidance, brought a special pride to the ensemble and its hometown, as well as providing an enviable and intimate acoustic environment in which to develop and refine the Orchestra’s artistry. Touring performances throughout the United States and, beginning in 1957, to Europe and across the globe have confirmed Cleveland’s place among the world’s top orchestras. Yearround performances became a reality in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center, one of the most beautiful and acoustically admired outdoor concert facilities in the United States.

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trustees ex-officio Faye A. Heston, President, Volunteer Council of The Cleveland Orchestra Shirley B. Dawson, President, Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra Claire Frattare, President, Blossom Women’s Committee

Carolyn Dessin, Chair, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Operating Committee Dr. Lester Lefton, President, Kent State University Barbara R. Snyder, President, Case Western Reserve University

Past Presidents D. Z. Norton 1915-21 John L. Severance 1921-36 Dudley S. Blossom 1936-38 Thomas L. Sidlo 1939-53

Percy W. Brown 1953-55 Frank E. Taplin, Jr. 1955-57 Frank E. Joseph 1957-68 Alfred M. Rankin 1968-83

Ward Smith 1983-95Richard J. Bogomolny 1995-2002, 2008-09James D. Ireland III 2002-08

honorary trustees for life Gay Cull Addicott Oliver F. Emerson Allen H. Ford

Robert W. GillespieDorothy Humel HovorkaRobert F. Meyerson

trustees emeriti Clifford J. Isroff Samuel H. Miller David L. Simon

resident trustees George N. Aronoff Dr. Ronald H. Bell Richard J. Bogomolny Charles P. Bolton Jeanette Grasselli Brown Helen Rankin Butler Scott Chaikin Paul G. Clark Owen M. Colligan Robert D. Conrad Matthew V. Crawford Alexander M. Cutler Hiroyuki Fujita Paul G. Greig Robert K. Gudbranson Iris Harvie Jeffrey A. Healy Stephen H. Hoffman David J. Hooker Michael J. Horvitz Marguerite B. Humphrey David P. Hunt Christopher Hyland James D. Ireland III

Trevor O. Jones Betsy Juliano Jean C. Kalberer Nancy F. Keithley Christopher M. Kelly Douglas A. Kern John D. Koch S. Lee Kohrman Charlotte R. Kramer Dennis W. LaBarre Norma Lerner Virginia M. Lindseth Alex Machaskee Robert P. Madison Milton S. Maltz Nancy W. McCann Thomas F. McKee Beth E. Mooney John C. Morley Donald W. Morrison Meg Fulton Mueller Gary A. Oatey Katherine T. O’Neill The Honorable John D. Ong

Larry Pollock Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Clara T. RankinAudrey Gilbert Ratner Charles A. RatnerJames S. Reid, Jr.Barbara S. Robinson Paul RoseSteven M. RossRaymond T. SawyerLuci ScheyHewitt B. Shaw, Jr. Richard K. SmuckerR. Thomas StantonDaniel P. WalshThomas A. WaltermireGeraldine B. WarnerJeffrey M. WeissNorman E. WellsPaul E. Westlake Jr.David A. Wolfort

officers and executive committee Dennis W. LaBarre, President Richard J. Bogomolny, Chairman The Honorable John D. Ong, Vice President

Norma Lerner, Honorary Chair Hewitt B. Shaw, Jr., Secretary Beth E. Mooney, Treasurer

Jeanette Grasselli Brown Alexander M. Cutler Matthew V. Crawford David J. Hooker Michael J. Horvitz

Douglas A. Kern Virginia M. Lindseth Alex Machaskee Nancy W. McCann John C. Morley

Larry PollockAlfred M. Rankin, Jr.Audrey Gilbert RatnerBarbara S. RobinsonRaymond T. Sawyer

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Don’t miss this unique, made-for-Cleveland opera presentation! Staged at Severance Hall with an international cast and innovative, original animated projections. While plumbing the

depths of human experience, The Cunning Little Vixen tells a charmingly bittersweet tale of love, peril, freedom, and family. The opera’s title character, portrayed by Czech

soprano Martina Janková, wends her way through life’s cycles of learning and danger, love and happiness. Janáček’s score mixes lyrical symphonic writing

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t h e 2 01 3 -1 4 s e a s o n marks Franz WelserMöst’s twelfth year as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, with a longterm commitment extending to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his direction, the Orchestra is acclaimed for its continuing artistic excellence, is extending and enhancing its community programming at home in Northeast Ohio, is presented in a series of ongoing residencies in the United States and Europe, continues its historic championship of new composers through commissions and premieres, and has reestablished itself as an important operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. WelserMöst is general music director of the Vienna State Opera. With a committed focus on music education in Northeast Ohio, Franz WelserMöst has taken The Cleveland Orchestra back into public schools with performances in collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Mr. WelserMöst’s championship of community musicmaking expands upon his active participation in educational programs and collaborative programming, including the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and partnerships with music conservatories, universities, and other arts institutions across Northeast Ohio. Under Mr. WelserMöst’s leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra has established an ongoing biennial residency in Vienna at the famed Musikverein concert hall and another at Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival. Together, they have appeared in residence at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Salzburg Festival, where a 2008 residency included five soldout performances of a staged production of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka. In the United States, Mr. WelserMöst has established an annual multiweek Cleveland Orch estra residency in Florida under the name Cleveland Orchestra Miami and, in 2011, launched a regular new residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival. To the start of this season, The Cleveland Orchestra has performed fourteen world and fifteen United States premieres under Franz WelserMöst’s direction. Through the Roche Commissions project, he and the Orchestra have premiered works by Harrison Birtwistle, Chen Yi, Hanspeter Kyburz, George Benjamin, Toshio Hosokawa, and Matthias Pintscher in partnership with the Lucerne Festival and Carnegie Hall. In addition, the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow program has brought new voices to the repertoire, including Pintscher, MarcAndré Dalbavie, Susan Botti, Julian Anderson, Johannes Maria Staud, Jörg Widmann, Sean Shepherd, and Ryan Wigglesworth. Franz WelserMöst has led a series of opera performances during his tenure

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in Cleveland, reestablishing the Orchestra as an important operatic ensemble. Following six seasons of operainconcert presentations, he brought fully staged opera back to Severance Hall with a threeseason cycle of Zurich Opera productions of the MozartDa Ponte operas. He led concert performances of Strauss’s Sa-lome at Severance Hall and at Carnegie Hall in May 2012 and in May 2014 leads an innovative madeforCleveland production of Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at Severance Hall. Franz WelserMöst became general music director of the Vienna State Opera in 2010. His long partnership with the company has included acclaimed performances of Tristan and Isol-de, a new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with stage director

SvenEric Bechtolf, and critically praised new productions of Hindemith’s Cardillac and Janáček’s Katya Kabanova and From the House of the Dead. During the 201314 season, his Vienna schedule includes a new production of Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West, as well as performances of Tristan and Isolde, Verdi’s Don Carlo, Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier. Mr. WelserMöst also maintains an ongoing relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic. Recent performances with the Philharmonic include appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, in concert at La Scala Milan, and in opera presentations at the Salzburg Festival. He also led the Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert, viewed by telecast in seventy countries worldwide in 2011 and again in 2013. Across a decadelong tenure with the Zurich Opera, culminating in three seasons as general music director (200508), Mr. WelserMöst led the company in more than 40 new productions. Franz WelserMöst’s recordings and videos have won major awards, including the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations. With The Cleveland Orchestra, he has created DVD recordings of live performances of five of Bruckner’s symphonies, presented in three acoustically distinctive venues (the Abbey of St. Florian in Austria, Vienna’s Musikverein, and Severance Hall). With Cleveland, he has also released a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as well as an allWagner album featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman. DVD releases on the EMI label have included Mr. WelserMöst leading Zurich Opera productions of The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, Fierrabras, and Peter Grimes. For his talents and dedication, Mr. WelserMöst has received honors that include recognition from the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, honorary membership in the Vienna Singverein, appointment as an Academician of the European Academy of Yuste, a Gold Medal from the Upper Austrian government for his work as a cultural ambassador, a Decoration of Honor from the Republic of Austria for his artistic achievements, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of America. He is the coauthor of Cadences: Observations and Conversations, published in a German edition in 2007.

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Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra, performing Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony in concert at Severance Hall in April 2012.

FIRST VIOLINSWilliam PreucilCONCERTMASTER

Blossom-Lee ChairYoko MooreASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair

Peter OttoFIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Jung-Min amy leeASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair

alexandra PreucilASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brownand Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair

takako MasamePaul and Lucille Jones Chair

Wei-Fang GuDrs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair

Kim GomezElizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair

chul-in ParkHarriet T. and David L.Simon Chair

Miho HashizumeTheodore Rautenberg Chair

Jeanne Preucil roseDr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair

alicia KoelzOswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair

Yu YuanPatty and John Collinson Chair

isabel trautweinTrevor and Jennie Jones Chair

Mark dummGladys B. Goetz Chair

Katherine Bormann

SECOND VIOLINSstephen rose*

Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair

emilio llinas 2

James and Donna Reid Chaireli Matthews 1

Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair

elayna duitmanioana Missitscarolyn Gadiel Warnerstephen Warnersae shiragamivladimir deninzonsonja Braaten Molloyscott WeberKathleen collinsBeth Woodsideemma shookJeffrey Zehngut

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VIOLASrobert vernon*

Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair

lynne ramsey1

Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair

stanley Konopka 2

Mark JackobsJean Wall Bennett Chair

arthur Klimarichard Waughlisa Boykolembi veskimetseliesha nelsonJoanna Patterson ZakanyPatrick connolly

CELLOSMark Kosower*

Louis D. Beaumont Chairrichard Weiss1

The GAR Foundation Chaircharles Bernard2

Helen Weil Ross ChairBryan dumm

Muriel and Noah Butkin Chairtanya ellralph curryBrian thorntondavid alan HarrellPaul KushiousMartha Baldwinthomas Mansbacher

BASSESMaximilian dimoff *

Clarence T. Reinberger ChairKevin switalski 2

scott Haigh1

Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair

Mark athertonthomas sperlHenry Peyrebrune S

Charles Barr Memorial Chaircharles carletonscott dixonderek Zadinsky

HARPtrina struble*

Alice Chalifoux Chair

F R A N z W E L S E R - M ö S T M U s i c D i R E c T o R Kelvin Smith Family Chair

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FLUTESJoshua smith*

Elizabeth M. andWilliam C. Treuhaft Chair

saeran st. christopherMarisela sager 2

Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn ChairMary Kay Fink

PICCOLOMary Kay Fink

Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair

OBOESFrank rosenwein*

Edith S. Taplin ChairMary lynchJeffrey rathbun 2

Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair

robert Walters

ENgLISH HORNrobert Walters

Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair

CLARINETSFranklin cohen*

Robert Marcellus Chairrobert Woolfreydaniel McKelway 2

Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair

linnea nereim

E-FLAT CLARINETdaniel McKelway

Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair

BASS CLARINETlinnea nereim

BASSOONSJohn clouser *

Louise Harkness Ingalls ChairBarrick stees2

Sandra L. Haslinger ChairJonathan sherwin

CONTRABASSOONJonathan sherwin

HORNSrichard King *

George Szell Memorial ChairMichael Mayhew §

Knight Foundation ChairJesse MccormickHans clebschalan deMattia

TRUMPETSMichael sachs*

Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair

Jack suttelyle steelman2

James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair

Michael Miller

CORNETSMichael sachs*

Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair

Michael Miller

TROMBONESMassimo la rosa*

Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair

richard stoutAlexander andMarianna C. McAfee Chair

shachar israel2

BASS TROMBONEthomas Klaber

EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPETrichard stout

TUBAYasuhito sugiyama*

Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair

TIMPANIPaul Yancich*

Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chairtom Freer 2

PERCUSSIONMarc damoulakis°

Margaret Allen Ireland Chairdonald Millertom Freer

kEyBOARD INSTRUMENTSJoela Jones*

Rudolf Serkin Chaircarolyn Gadiel Warner

Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair

LIBRARIANSrobert O’Brien

Joe and Marlene Toot Chairdonald Miller

ORCHESTRA PERSONNELKaryn GarvinDIRECTOR

christine HonolkeMANAGER

ENDOwED CHAIRS CURRENTLy UNOCCUPIEDSidney and Doris Dworkin ChairSunshine Chair

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Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair

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The Cleveland Orchestra and the Lakewood community are joining together to pres-ent “The Cleveland Orchestra at Home in Lakewood,” a neighborhood residency that features an intensive week of free public performances and events May 17-24. A se-ries of prepartory events in partnership with Lakewood schools began in February and continue through the public residency week. The centerpiece of the Orchestra’s ac-tivities in Lakewood will be a free Cleveland Orchestra concert led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst at Lakewood Civic Au-ditorium on Saturday evening, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets were distributed at loca-tions throughout Lakewood beginning on Saturday, April 26. (A delayed telecast of the concert will be presented by WVIZ/PBS ideastream; the concert will be broadcast live on radio by WCLV 104.9 ideastream. The television broadcast will feature a compos-ite of community collaborations, musical performances, and joint events and activi-ties throughout Lakewood.) “Creating a ‘grass roots’ opportunity for Lakewood to experience perhaps the greatest orchestra in the world at a very personal level is a cultural experience that we will remember for years to come,” commented Michael P. Summers, Lakewood’s mayor, in announc-ing resdiency details. “Our increasingly vibrant commercial corridors and neighbor-hoods will be made ever-more-so by the music and the musicians.” Ian Andrews, executive director of LakewoodAlive, Lakewood’s non-profit economic development organization, said, “We are ecstatic to have been chosen as The Cleveland Orchestra’s destination for immersion into a Northeast Ohio community.

Lakewood is known for its commitment to the arts. The Orchestra’s events will strengthen this commitment and showcase the city’s great quality of life, local organizations, restaurants, schools, and busi-nesses that make our community special.” The Cleveland Orchestra introduced neighborhood residencies in May 2013 in the Gordon Square community of Cleve-land. The activities, including a Cleveland Orchestra Concert at Saint Colman Catholic Church, were taped and aired by WVIZ/PBS ideastream. WCLV 104.9 also broadcast the concert on radio. The goals of the neighborhood resi-dencies are to bring increased visibility and vibrancy to greater Cleveland’s neighbor-hoods, build community through arts and culture in tandem with local partners, and offer more people the opportunity to en-gage with the music and the musicians of The Cleveland Orch estra. The culminating residency week of activities will include solo and chamber music performances in unique locations, educational programs at local schools, and new artistic collaborations with neighborhood arts and cultural organiza-tions — all in partnership with local busi-nesses and community groups. Complete “at Home in Lakewood” de-tails can be found at clevelandorchestra.com.

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details of orchestra’s “at home” in lakewood neighborhood residency announced for may 17-24Four months of education activities presented in partnership with Lakewood schools lead up to an intensive week of free public performances and events, including Orchestra concert on May 24

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A.R.O.U.N.D T .O .W.N Recitals and presentations Upcoming local performances by members of The Cleveland Orchestra include:

Over twenty members of The Cleveland Orchestra will be playing chamber music at a special “Prelude to the Cure” event on Friday night, May 30, to benefi t the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The evening at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (2747 Fairmount Blvd, Cleveland Heights) is presented by “Shaking With Laughter” and is being organized by Robert Walters, the Orchestra’s solo english horn player. Among those involved, every principal wind player of the Orchestra and the principal timpani will be performing. In addition, every member of the oboe section and four of Cleveland’s best known chamber groups made up of Orches-tra musians will be represented — the Amici Quartet, Cleveland Duo, Ensemble HD, and the Omni Quartet. Also included in the eve-ning’s program is the world premiere of a new work by Jeff rey Rathbun. For more details or to order tickets (including VIP tickets that in-clude a light pre-concert dinner by Doug Katz, desserts from Luna, beer from Bottle House Brewery, and wine), call 216-932-0290 or visit www.shakingwithlaughter.org.

Women’s Committee Annual Meeting set for May 28thThe Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra holds its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 28, along with performances by the 2013 Alice B. Weeks Memorial Award scholarships: Hannah Moses (cello) and Mary O’Keefe (oboe). The evening takes place at Judson Manor. RSVP to Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Services by calling 216-231-1111.

Silence is golden As a courtesy to the performers onstage and the audience around you, all patrons are reminded to turn off cell phones and to disen-gage electronic watch alarms for the concert.

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The Musical Arts Association gratefully acknow ledges the artistry and dedication of all the musicians of The Cleveland Or-chestra. In addition to rehearsals and con-certs throughout the year, many musicians donate performance time in support of community engagement, fundraising, edu-cation, and audience development activi-ties. We are pleased to recognize these mu-sicians, listed below, who have volunteered for such events and presentations during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.

Mark AthertonMartha BaldwinCharles BernardKatherine BormannLisa BoykoCharles CarletonJohn ClouserKathleen CollinsPatrick ConnollyRalph CurryMaximilian Dimoff Bryan DummTanya EllKim GomezDavid Alan HarrellMiho HashizumeShachar IsraelJoela JonesRichard KingAlicia KoelzStanley KonopkaMark KosowerPaul KushiousMassimo La RosaJung-Min Amy LeeMary LynchThomas MansbacherTakako MasameEli MatthewsJesse McCormickDaniel McKelwaySonja Braaten Molloy

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Cleveland Orchestra violinist Sonja Braat-en Molloy has been given a unique opportuni-ty to perform on a special violin that was given to the Music Settlement by acclaimed violinist Melvin Ritter. He and his wife, pianist Jane Allen, were known as “America’s most popular violin-piano duo” in the 1950s and ’60s. Mol-loy, who has been a member of The Cleveland Orchestra since 2000, is also a member of the Music Settlement’s teaching faculty. Melvin Ritter — a national Music League Award winner — served as concertmaster for both the Tampa Symphony and the Saint Louis Symphony. Born in 1923 in Cleveland, he received his initial music instruction at what was then known as the Cleveland Music School Settlement. When Ritter died in Oc-tober 2012, his legacy resulted in a heartfelt gift to the Settlement of his 1665 Amati “ex-

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Hepton” violin and his Kittel bow. “We felt that such a valued and valuable gift should not live in a vault,” says Charles Law-rence, president of the Music Settlement. “Un-played violins go mute. It would be wrong to silence the legacy of Mr. Ritter and the ex-Hep-ton.” After great deliberation, the Settlement’s board of directors chose to loan the violin to a member of its teaching faculty who also plays for The Cleveland Orchestra, and Sonja Molloy was given the honor of using the instrument. “I fi nd it thrilling to imagine all the diff er-ent personalities who have had the pleasure of playing the ex-Hepton,” says Molloy. “I’m grateful to have been given the honor of rous-ing this incredible instrument from its recent sleep, and proud to help Melvin Ritter’s legacy resound at the Music Settlement and at Sever-ance Hall.”

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i .n m.e .m.o.r. i .a .m The Cleveland Orchestra notes the death on March 11 of retired Orchestra horn player Albert Schmitter at the age of 81. He served

as a member of the Orchestra for 29 years, retiring in 1995. Schmitter was a graduate of J.F. Rhodes High School in Cleveland and of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also attended Baldwin Wallace College. The entire Orchestra family ex-tends its condolences to his family and friends.

Special thanks to Cleveland Orchestra musicians The Board of Trustees extends specialthanks to the members of The Cleveland Orch estra for donating their services for four performances this season as part of the musi-cians’ ongoing commitment to provide ad-ditional revenue-generating opportunities to benefit the institution. These four concerts in-clude the Severance Hall Gala with Itzhak Perl-man in September 2013 and a benefit concert in Palm Beach, Florida, in January 2014, along with performances at New York’s Lincoln Cen-ter and in Cologne, Germany, as part of the Orchestra’s touring this past autumn. “These and other donated services eachyear are a meaningful demonstration of themusicians’ commitment to this institution’sfuture,” notes Gary Hanson, executive direc-tor. “The members of The Cleveland Or-chestra are committed to ensuring that the Orchestra can present music as an important and vital part of life.”

Committed to Accessibility Severance Hall is committed to making performances and facilities accessible to all patrons. For information about accessibility or for assistance, call the House Manager at 216-231-7425.

Donors make plans to endow Orchestra’s librarian chair The Cleveland Orchestra is pleased to announce the creation of the Joe and Marlene Toot Head Librarian Endowed Chair through a legacy gift to the Orchestra. “The Head Li-brarian is a critically essential member of the Orchestra — as integral to our musical success as any instrumentalist,” says Gary Hanson. “It is with deep gratitude that I thank Joe and Marlene Toot for making such a generous commitment through their estate.” The current head librarian, Robert O’Brien, is the ninth in that position since the Orchestra’s founding in 1918. He has served as head librarian since 2008. In this role, O’Brien ensures that each musician has the right music on the right music stand at the right time for every rehearsal and concert. He makes all scores available to every musician for individual practice, and ensures that every part and each marking matches the conduc-tor’s needs. He catalogs and maintains the Orchestra’s extensive collection of musical scores — those that are part of the Sever-ance Hall music library and those rented for particular performances. He daily works with tempo markings and musical scores in multi-ple languages, from German to French, Italian to English, and more. The gift from Joe and Marlene Toot will support the funding of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Head Librarian position in per-petuity. Thousands of generous individuals have made a commitment to the Orchestra through outright endowment gifts or legacy plans, through the annual fund and special project support. To learn more about includ-ing the Orchestra in your estate plans, please contact Bridget Mundy at 216-231-8006.

Comings and goings As a courtesy to the performers onstage and the entire audience, late-arriving patrons cannot be seated until the first break in the musical program.


The Cleveland Orchestra has announced a new group called The Circle, welcoming young professionals ages 21-40. The group is designed for those who share a love of music and an interest in supporting The Cleveland Orchestra in a new and dynamic way. The Circle provides members exclusive access to the Orchestra, with opportunities to meet musicians, and socialize at Severance Hall and at Blossom Music Festival events. Member-ships include bi-monthly concert tickets along with opportunities to attend social gatherings to network with friends and cultural business leaders of Northeast Ohio. The objectives of The Circle are to increase engagement op-portunities for young people ages 21-40 and to help develop future volunteer community leaders and arts advocates. The Circle was launched at a Cleveland

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Orchestra concert in January, and is continu-ing to grow. Plans for events throughout the spring are posted on the orchestra’s website, including concert receptions, a tour of Sever-ance Hall, and more. Cost of membership in The Circle is $15 per month for one membership and $20 per month for two memberships and includes bi-monthly tickets. New members join for a minimum of six months. For additional information, visit clevelandorchestra.com or send an email to [email protected].

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“under 18s fre e ” for familie s Introduced for Blossom Music Festival concerts in 2011, our “Under 18s Free” for families program now includes select Cleveland Orchestra concerts at Severance Hall each season. This program offers free tickets (one per regularpriced adult paid admission) to young people ages 717 to the Orchestra’s Fridays@7, Friday Morning at 11, and Sunday Afternoon at 3 Classical Concerts.

student ticKe t ProGrams During The Cleveland Orchestra’s 201314 season, the Student Advantage and Frequent Fan Card programs, Student Ambassadors, and offers for student groups attending together have been responsible for bringing more high school and college age students to Severance Hall than ever before. The Orchestra’s ongoing Student Advantage Program provides opportunities for students to attend concerts at Severance Hall and Blossom through discounted ticket offers. Membership is free and rewards members with discounted ticket purchases. For this season, a record 6,000 students have joined. The Student Frequent Fan Card was introduced a year ago with great success, and continues to grow. Priced at $50, the Fan Card offers students single tickets (one per Fan Card holder per week) to weekly Classical Concerts all season long. All of these programs are supported by The Cleveland Orchestra’s Center for Future Audiences, including support from the Center’s Alexander and Sarah Cutler Fund for Student Audiences. The Center for Future Audiences was created with a $20 million lead endowment gift from the Maltz Family Foundation to develop new generations of audiences for Cleveland Orchestra concerts in Northeast Ohio.

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may 1, 3, 4“Meet the Composer” with Gabriela Lena Frank in conversation with Jason Harris, followed by a talk about the entire concert:

“Mozart’s Requiem” with Jason Harris, assistant professor of choral conducting, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

may 8, 10“Magical Sounds from Norway and Finland” with Rose Breckenridge, Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups administrator and lecturer

may 17, 20, 22, 24Opera: The Cunning Little Vixen Please note that no live preview will be presented; visit clevlandorchestra.com to view the production diaries about “The Making of The Cunning Litle Vixen.”

may 29, 30, 31“Fairytale Endings” with Rose Breckenridge

LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE MUSIC

The Cleveland Orchestra offers a vari-ety of options for learning more about the music before each concert begins. For each concert, the program book includes program notes commenting on and providing background about the composer and his or her work being performed that week, along with biographies of the guest artists and other information. You can read these before the concert, at intermis-sion, or afterward. (Program notes are also posted ahead of time online at clevelandorchestra.com, usually by the Monday directly preceding the concert.) The Orchestra’s Music Study Groups also provide a way of explor-ing the music in more depth. These classes, professionally led by Dr. Rose Breckenridge, meet weekly in locations around Cleveland to explore the music being played each week and the sto-ries behind the composers’ lives. Free Concert Previews are pre-sented one hour before most subscrip-tion concerts throughout the season at Severance Hall. The previews (see listing at right) feature a variety of speakers and guest artists speaking or conversing about that weekend’s program, and often include the op-portunity for audience members to ask questions.

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Opera — week 21

Severance HallSaturday evening, May 17, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, May 20, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evening, May 22, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, May 24, 2014, at 2:00 p.m.

Příhody lišky Bystroušky (or “The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears”)

directed by yuval sharonanimation by Walter robot studios — Bill Barminski and christopher louieprojection and lighting design by Jason thompsoncostume design and makeup by ann closs-farleymask design by cristina Waltz

conducted by franz Welser-möst

Sung in Czech with projected English supertitles. English supertitles by Lindley L. Becker, Bayshore Opera Translations.

music by Leos Janácek (1854-1928) libretto adapted by the composer from the serialized comic strip and novella by Rudolf Tesnohlídek and Stanislav Lolek

OPERA IN THREE ACTS

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This opera production and presentation is supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationand by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Martina Janková’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by a contribution to the Orchestra’s Guest Artist Fund from The Eleanore T. and Joseph E. Adams Fund.

Jennifer Johnson Cano’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by a contribution to the Orchestra’s Guest Artist Fund from Mrs. Paul D. Wurzberger.

The performance on Thursday, May 22, is dedicated to The Honorable and Mrs. John D. Ong in recognition of their extraordinary generosity in support of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2012-13 Annual Fund.

The opera is presented without intermission, and will run about 90 minutes in performance.

Please note that these performances include the sound of gunshots.

C A S T

Featuring Vixen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTINA JANKOVÁ, soprano Forester (a Gamekeeper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALAN HELD, bass-baritone Fox (the Vixen’s paramour) . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO, mezzo-soprano Harašta (a Poultry-Dealer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RAYMOND ACETO, bass Lapák (the Forester’s dog) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE BOULIANNE, mezzo-soprano Badger / Parson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DASHON BURTON, bass-baritone Mosquito / Schoolmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID CANGELOSI, tenor

with Forester’s Wife / Woodpecker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SANDRA ROSS, soprano Rooster / Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAMANTHA GOSSARD, mezzo-soprano Pásek (the Innkeeper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN KEITH JOHNSON, baritone Mrs. Pásek / Chief Hen / Blue Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIAN VOGEL, soprano Cricket / Frog / Pepík (the Forester’s grandchild) . . LAURA SCHUPBACH, soprano Grasshopper / Frantík (Pepík’s friend) . . . . . . . . . . . MIRANDA SCHOLL, soprano

and CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS — Robert Porco, director CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHILDREN’S CHORUS — Ann Usher, director as the voices of the hens and other forest creatures and as the voice of the forest

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This opera production and presentation is supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationand by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Martina Janková’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by a contribution to the Orchestra’s Guest Artist Fund from The Eleanore T. and Joseph E. Adams Fund.

Jennifer Johnson Cano’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by a contribution to the Orchestra’s Guest Artist Fund from Mrs. Paul D. Wurzberger.

The performance on Thursday, May 22, is dedicated to The Honorable and Mrs. John D. Ong in recognition of their extraordinary generosity in support of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2012-13 Annual Fund.

The opera is presented without intermission, and will run about 90 minutes in performance.

Please note that these performances include the sound of gunshots.

C A S T

Featuring Vixen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTINA JANKOVÁ, soprano Forester (a Gamekeeper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALAN HELD, bass-baritone Fox (the Vixen’s paramour) . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO, mezzo-soprano Harašta (a Poultry-Dealer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RAYMOND ACETO, bass Lapák (the Forester’s dog) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE BOULIANNE, mezzo-soprano Badger / Parson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DASHON BURTON, bass-baritone Mosquito / Schoolmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID CANGELOSI, tenor

with Forester’s Wife / Woodpecker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SANDRA ROSS, soprano Rooster / Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAMANTHA GOSSARD, mezzo-soprano Pásek (the Innkeeper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN KEITH JOHNSON, baritone Mrs. Pásek / Chief Hen / Blue Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIAN VOGEL, soprano Cricket / Frog / Pepík (the Forester’s grandchild) . . LAURA SCHUPBACH, soprano Grasshopper / Frantík (Pepík’s friend) . . . . . . . . . . . MIRANDA SCHOLL, soprano

and CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS — Robert Porco, director CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHILDREN’S CHORUS — Ann Usher, director as the voices of the hens and other forest creatures and as the voice of the forest


PRODUCTION

Franz Welser-Möst, conductorYuval Sharon, director

Walter Robot Studios (Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie), animation creationJason Thompson, projection and lighting designAnn Closs-Farley, costume designCristina Waltz, mask design Fenlon Lamb, assistant director

Meggie Scache, stage managerStephanie Boyd, assistant stage managerElliot Yates, assistant stage managerCharles Latshaw, score readerKevin Krumenauer, supertitle operatorJacob Wade, production assistant

John S. Bukala, technical directorJoseph Short, orchestra stage managerJeff rey Gryzcan, wardrobe supervisorAmy Jean Wright, lead makeup artistLibby Rose Goldberg, makeup assistant

Milos Repicky, répétiteur and prompterJoela Jones, rehearsal pianistBrett Mitchell, assistant conductor

For The Cleveland Orchestra: Mark Williams, Director of Artistic Planning Julie Kim, Director of Operations

Samantha ApanasewiczEmily BealRyan BendaAnna BuescherRyan BurdickGiovanni CastiglioneHannah CogarMaksim DamljanovicAlexandra DoddJoseph FengMariana GomezAthena GrassoAdam HolthausElizabeth JavorskyLexy Jensen

Amelia JohnsonJennifer LutzAnna Victoria MacGregorDavid MalkinAnnamarie MartinMaddy MasseyGenesis MerrittEunice MinNathan NiedzwieckiClaire PeyrebruneJustin PrindleMegan QiangDavid RicciLauren RogersLili Roosa

Jennifer RowanDrew RussellJulia SabikAmanda SachsJoseph SchuellerAbigail SchwarzKailee ShaverKayla ThompsonLauren VenesileMadison ViolandEric WaltersHannah WoodsideBenjamin Wykoff Olivia Zackary

Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus

Robert Porco, DirectorLisa Wong, Assistant DirectorJoela Jones, Principal Accompanist

SOPRANOSMerissa ColemanSusan CucuzzaEmily EngleSamantha GarnerDanielle GreenwayRebecca S. HallShannon R. JakubczakKate MacySarah OsburnLenore M. PershingMonica Schie

ALTOSEmily Austin Julie CajigasBetty Huber Sarah N. HutchinsKarla McMullenMary-Francis MillerIna Stanek-Michaelis Martha Cochran TrubyLaure Wasserbauer

TENORSGerry C. Burdick William HamiltonPeter KvideraSteve LawsonMatthew RizerLee ScantleburyJarod ShampWilliam Venable

BASSESChristopher AldrichNikola BudimirKurtis B. Hoff manPaul HubbardJoshua JonesJoel KincannonSam KitzlerJason LevyGlenn Obergefell

Production Team

Cleveland Orchestra Children’s ChorusAnn Usher, DirectorSuzanne Walters, Assistant DirectorDianna White-Gould, Accompanist

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T H E R E H AV E B E E N M A N Y I N T E R P R E TAT I O N S of Janáček’s Th e Cun-ning Little Vixen over the years. Are the animals like people? or the people like animals? Is the cycle of life optimistic in renewal? or pessimistic and repetitive? Is this a tale for children? or a fable for adults? Th e storyline is both simple and enigmatic, with plenty of room to emphasize one direction or many, to give us pleasure and to make us ponder. For this brand-new, made-for-Cleveland production, director Yuval Sharon has chosen a particularly vivid viewpoint — and animated it (liter-ally) with the creative assistance of digital scenery, together with creative costuming and masks — as he discusses (beginning on page 41). As further background, David Wright writes about Janáček’s life and music (page 43), and about the composer’s writing of the opera itself — and the comic strip novella upon which it was based (page 51). Biographies of the cast and creative team (beginning on page 57) round out our program book, plus a variety of information about Th e Cleve -land Orchestra itself — including the executive director’s take on two big projects this month (page 7), news (page 25), and recognition throughout the book of the many generous individuals and institutions who make pos-sible everything Th e Cleveland Orchestra does each year. Enjoy.

—Eric Sellen

Introducing the Concerts

I N T R O D U C I N G T H E C O N C E R T S

Animals&Animation

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA ON THE RADIOCurrent and past Cleveland Orchestra concerts are broadcast as part of regular weekly programming on WCLV (104.9 FM), Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. This week’s opera program is being recorded and will be broadcast on Sunday, September 14, at 4:00 p.m. and again on Saturday, September 27, at 8:00 p.m.

begins on page:Cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Production Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Director’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41About the Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43About the Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Singers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Creative Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67


act one “How Sharp-Ears Was Caught” — a summer afternoon in the forest A Blue Dragonfly wends its way across the forest. The Forester, on his way home, stops for a nap. While he is asleep, the Cricket and the Caterpillar make music. A young Frog, trying to catch a Mosquito, attracts the attention of a vixen cub. The Frog lands on the Forester, waking him. The Forester grabs the Vixen and takes her away. Dusk falls. The Vixen’s mother and the Blue Dragonfly search for the Vixen.

Orchestral Interlude. Time Passes. “Sharp-Ears at the Forester’s Farmyard; Sharp-Ears as Politician; Sharp-Ears Runs Away” — autumn in the farmyard The Vixen is being reared as a family pet. She befriends the dog Lapák, but rebuffs his romantic advances. She defends herself against the teasing of the Forester’s grandson Pepík and his friend Frantík. The Vixen is tied up for her behavior. Interlude. The Vixen sleeps and dreams. At dawn, the Vixen berates the hens, who she believes are exploited by humans and by their leader, the Rooster. The Vixen appeals to the hens’ self worth, but is

SYNOPSIS

shocked at their goalong conservatism. The Vixen plays dead. When the Rooster and hens investigate, she kills him and thrashes the hens. The Forester and his wife confront their wayward pet, but the Vixen escapes off into the forest.

act tWo “Sharp-Ears Expropriates a Home” — a winter night in the forest The Vixen taunts the Badger, then pushes him out of his comfortable home and takes it over for herself. At Pásek’s Inn, in winter. The Forester, the Schoolmaster, and the Parson are drinking and playing cards. The Forester mocks the Schoolmaster about his hopeless infatuation for the girl Terynka. The Schoolmaster, in turn, taunts the Forester over his failure to hold the Vixen. The Parson is troubled by a scandal in his own past. The men depart.

Outside. As the Schoolmaster stumbles drunkenly home, he confuses the movement and colors of a Sunflower (behind which the Vixen is hiding) for his old flame Terynka, pouring his heart out into the night. The Parson, also the worse for drink, sees the Vixen and confuses her with a girl he was accused of seducing years ago. The

The Story


Forester also catches sight of the Vixen and fires shots at her, sending her running off into the darkness. “Courtship of Sharp-Ears and the Fox; Love and Marriage” — a summer night in the forest The Vixen meets a handsome Fox and tells him the story of her life. The Fox woos her. They mate. Having scandalized the gossiping birds, they agree to marry, officiated by the Woodpecker. The forest creatures celebrate the wedding.

act three “Sharp-Ears outwits Harašta from Lusen; Death of Sharp-Ears” — the forest at midday, in autumn Harašta, a poultrydealer, comes across a dead hare. The Forester appears and accuses Harašta of poaching. Harašta explains that he is on his way to see Terynka, whom he is to marry.

The Forester, realizing that the hare is one of the Vixen’s victims, uses it to set a trap for her. The Vixen, the Fox, and their cubs poke fun at the clumsily laid trap, and the parents happily watch their growing family.

Harašta returns to collect the lifeless hare. The Vixen plays dead to lure him

away, then runs. He gets frustrated by the Vixen’s games and shoots into the forest, killing her. At the Inn, the following spring. The Schoolmaster is filled with regret at hearing that Terynka is to marry. He and the Forester both regret that their friend the Parson has moved away. The Forester reflects on his age and sets off for the forest. “Young Sharp-Ears, as the Spitting Image of Her Mother” — a spring afternoon in the forest The Forester muses on the beauty of the forest, where life is continually renewed. He recalls his courtship and wedding and contentedly falls asleep for a nap.

As he dreams, the forest creatures appear, including a little vixen. The Forester sees the vixen and also spots a familiar frog, grandson of the Frog who attracted the Vixen’s attention at the beginning of her adventures. Reminded of life’s recurring cycles, the Forester walks home.

The Story

The opera is being presented without intermission, and will run about 90 minutes in performance.

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The Cleveland Orchestra applauds the generous donors listed below, who are making possible these groundbreaking performances

of Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen.

The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMrs. Emma S. Lincoln

Rachel R. Schneider

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Abookire, Jr.Ms. Nancy A. AdamsMs. Elaine A. Bridges

Mrs. Barbara Ann DavisJudith and George W. Diehl

Ivan and Sonia GoldfarbT.K. and Faye A. Heston

Robert and Linda JenkinsRichard and Gina Klym

Tim and Linda KoelzAnthony T. and Patricia A. Lauria

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Drs. Daniel and Ximena SesslerMr. and Mrs. William W. Taft

Henry F.* and Darlene K. WoodruffAnonymous

These performances of The Cunning Little Vixen are supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has awarded The Cleveland Orchestra

$2.5 million of support for artistically ambitious programming.

Of the Mellon Foundation’s commitment, $1.25 million will be awarded as part of a one-to-one challenge lasting through June 2016. This means that

any gift to The Cleveland Orchestra designated to support special artistic initiatives will be doubled by the Mellon Foundation.

If you want to help ensure that opera remains a meaningful feature of The Cleveland Orchestra’s season each year, or if you’d like

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“I went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” —John Muir

“From any spot within its border, the forest is just a possibility: the aggregate of possible acts of ours which, when carried out, would lose their real value. The part of the forest immediately

before us is a screen.” —Jose Ortega y Gasset

liKe a re stle s s, Wild animal , The Cunning Little Vixen dodges any attempt to tame it with too-easy explanations or symbolic interpretations. Staging The Cunning Little Vixen involves no shortage of delicate balances. The production must be playful without being childish, poetic without being heavy-handed, deeply compassionate but never sentimental, and highly imaginative in itself but always igniting the audience’s imagination first and foremost. Like the music, it must be fleet, direct, clear, and full of surprises. The extreme strangeness of the work must not be cloaked in a neutralizing naturalization, even though the speech rhythms and orchestral timbres might seem to spring Nature before our eyes like a pop-up book. Instead, the work’s singular strangeness must provoke wonder and astonishment — for this opera is as unconventional as it gets. Initially conceived as an “opera with pantomime,” Janáček later described Vixen as a “forest idyll” — less driven by narrative and traditional character arcs and more an impressionistic journey through Nature’s cycle of life. In fact, it is the forest that plays the central character of the opera. Nature is a blank screen onto which we project our own fears, desires, and memories. The forest can be both a wise, silent teacher, whose lesson is life’s eternal renewal; and it can be a mirror, reflecting back only what we project onto it ourselves. Nature’s mystery stems from it offering us both objective reality and a repetition of our own subjectivity — we go into Nature hoping it will have an answer to a question of ours, but we read into it only what we want. This production lets everyone involved be free. The animated sets and cos-tumes let us move between literal and abstract realms with complete fluidity, never encumbered by clunky scenery. The singers are free from the physical bur-den of trying to convince us they are wild animals and instead focus on the es-sential delivery of the character with their most powerful expressive tools: their voices and their heads. And, most importantly, the audience is free to create their own interpretations on this strange and wondrous work.

—Yuval Sharon May 2014

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the facult y, staff, and students of the Organ School in Brno, Moravia, were given the day off on July 3, 1914. It was the sixtieth birthday of the school’s head, the composer and writer Leoš Janáček, whose operas, cantatas, and musings in the local newspaper on life and music had made him something of a celebrity in this provincial capital. As the punch flowed, speeches ran overtime, and letters and telegrams from wellwishers were read, the man with the thick shock of white hair basked in the attention. Recently recovered from a prolonged, debilitating illness, his thoughts had been much on death lately, even if his optimistic temperament made him view that event in the context of a benign cycle of life. His letters of the time show him worrying that this bit of local fame was all there ever would be for him. Many of the birthday good wishes expressed hope that his works would gain a wider audience. “That time will come, it must come!” wrote one of his doctors. And then come it did. Janáček’s opera Jenůfa, successfully intro

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duced in Brno in 1904 and revived three times after that, finally was accepted by the National Theater in Prague, and its premiere there on May 26, 1916, was a national event. In

the midst of World War I, Czech aspirations hung thick in the air, and not only the singers onstage but many in the audience were decked out in folk costume. A firstrate cast and Janáček’s distinctive music sealed the deal. The eight scheduled performances of Jenůfa quickly sold out, and eighteen more were added the following season. Janáček replied to one letter of congratulation as follows: “I feel as if I am in a fairy-tale; now I am composing, composing as if driven. I no longer valued my own work — nor my own words. I did not believe that any-one would ever notice any of it. . . . Now I am beginning to believe in my life and its mission.” A rich decadeplus of productivity followed, during which Janáček composed most of the works on which his international reputation rests today. Born at the height of the Romantic era, reborn as a composer at age

62 during a revolutionary time in music history, this original from the provinces seems to exist almost outside that history, with his musical idiom defined by what it is not as often as by what it is. For example, though Janáček’s music is rooted in the native soil of a proud Czech, it would never be mistaken for that of his predecessors Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák. The era was different, of course, and Janáček was

well aware of the innovations of Debussy and Stravinsky. More fundamentally, Janáček’s home turf was Moravia, where the folk music looked eastward to the speechinflected rhythms and peculiar modes and scales of Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, rather than Dvořák’s Bohemia, with its regular dance rhythms and familiar major and minor harmonies. Early in his career, Janáček systematically collected and arranged Moravian folk

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Above, Janáček and his wife, Zdenka, in 1881.

Below, Janáček was among a generation of composers who were in-spired by the preservation of ethnic folk music from across Middle Europe through recordings.


music, and also made extensive notes on the inflections of everyday speech, rendering them in musical notation. The effect on his music was liberating; even without explicitly sprinkling his works with folk tunes, the composer drew on his “speech melodies” as an alternative to the melodic styles of western Europe. His opera roles aren’t always easy to sing, but there is a natural shape to their phrasing that makes for compelling drama. Janáček’s musical research and eastern orientation link him to his younger contemporary Béla Bartók. Indeed, on the couple of occasions when the two composers met, the animated conversation (one observer called it “fireworks”) went on late into the night. And yet Janáček’s music isn’t like Bartók’s either. He didn’t share the Hungarian’s highstrung, fiery temperament, nor his taste for western musical traditions in orchestration and counterpoint — all factors that helped Bartók’s fiercely dissonant music make its way with audiences during the past century, while Janáček’s more approachable idiom sometimes struggled to be understood. If his impatience with “isms” of any sort makes his music hard to describe in a phrase, it also marks an approach to composing that was far ahead of its time. Although Janáček can’t be categorized as strictly a nationalist (Jenůfa notwithstanding), impressionist, serialist, or minimalist composer, he helped himself to all of these, in what would become a normal “late20thcentury” way, as it suited his expressive purposes. In a single Janáček operatic scene, passages of hypnotic repetition, floating wholetone scales, and lush tonal harmonies can depict different characters or convey emotional crosscurrents. Similarly, Janáček preferred juxtaposition to blending when it came to writing for orchestra. The expressive contrast between three piccolos and three trombones interested him more than a wellwoven carpet of orchestral sound. This experimentation with discrete instrumental timbres is very much a feature of today’s new orchestral works. Nearly a century ago, Janáček was already there. For a long time, this independentminded composer’s music depended on a few determined champions to push it into opera houses and concert halls. In those first heady years of fame,

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Janáček and his dog, circa 1924.

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the patriotic Janáček submitted to a kind of Germanizing of his operas by conductors and translators — thickening the orchestration, “rationalizing” the plot — in hopes of reaching a wider audience. Beginning in the 1970s, however, as the influence of Anton Weber’s pioneering serialism was beginning to lose its grip on the newmusic scene, conductors such as Charles Mackerras took up the cause of Janáček’s music in all its quirky original glory, not just for the sake of the composer’s attractive and humane artistic personality, but also as signaling a different way forward in 20thcentury music. Some listeners immediately “got” this oneofakind, new/old composer. Others might have said, along with the reviewer of a Janáček cantata in 1913, “It is a strange composition, but somehow intoxicating.” Either way, the doctor’s prognosis was correct: Around the world, Janáček’s time had come.

Above, Kamila Stösslová, the young wife of an antique dealer, who Janáček met in the spa town of Pisek in 1917. Janáček and Stöss-lová corresponded extensively over the next decade and more, with him sharing about his music and inspirations. Janáček was clearly infuated with Stösslová, and hundreds of their letters survive, testifying to both a close relation-ship and ongoing tensions be-tween them.

At left, from the autograph score of Janáček’s Sinfonietta, perhaps his most acclaimed symphonic work.

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In anticipation of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 100th anniversary in 2018, we have embarked on the most ambitious fundraising campaign in our history. The Sound for the Centennial Campaign seeks to build the Orchestra’s Endowment through cash gifts and legacy commitments, while also securing broad-based and increas-ing annual support from across Northeast Ohio. The generous individuals and organizations listed on these pages have made

long-term commitments of annual and endowment support, and legacy declarations to the Campaign as of May 1, 2014. We gratefully recognize their extraordinary commitment toward the Orchestra’s future success. Your participation can make a crucial difference in helping to ensure that future generations of concertgoers experience, embrace, and enjoy performances, collaborative presentations, and education programs by The Cleveland Orchestra. To join this growing list of visionary contributors, please contact Jon Limbacher, Chief Development Officer, at 216-231-7520.

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Wh e n Ru d o lf T ě s n o h lí d e k first heard that Leoš Janáček, the most prominent living Czech composer, wanted to make an opera out of his comic strip in the local paper, he thought someone was playing a joke on him. Yes, it was true that Těsnohlídek’s prose narrative to fanciful animal drawings by the Prague artist Stanislav Lolek had been quite a hit with readers of the Brno daily Lidové Noviny when it was serialized in 1920. It was even brought out in book form the following year. But what interest could the humorous adventures of a girlfox in the woods have for the celebrated composer of tragic, psychological music dramas? Then an invitation came from the great man himself for a faceto face meeting. Těsnohlídek found the composer seated in the garden of the Brno Conservatory, the music school over which he presided, on a beautiful spring day, “with thousands of tiny blos-soms shining around his head; that head of his was equally white, and seemed like the biggest of the flowers.” As the writer described it, something in the old man’s smile won him over instantly: “At that moment I believed that the vixen Bystrouška was sitting, tamed and

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An early published edition of the comic strip Liška Bystrouška

(“Vixen Sharp-Ears”).


quite mastered by the kindness of the man in the small garden, and that she would approach unseen to sit at our feet and listen to our plotting.” On that occasion, Janáček spoke only briefly about Těsnohlídek’s novel, while talking at length about his summer vacation in the Tatra Mountains, his lakeside house in Wallachia, and the sounds and behaviors of all the forest animals there. The citydwelling newspaper writer admittedly knew nothing of all that, and yet it only added to his confidence that his story was in good hands. It was the first time, but far from the last, that Janáček’s idea for an opera of animal and human characters singing and interacting with each other would face skeptics and turn them into believers. Certainly the composer, in conceiving his woodland fantasy, did not have stage practicalities uppermost in his mind. The vixen’s story was written in the dialect of the countryside around Brno — incomprehensible not just in Berlin and Paris but in Prague as well — and that suited the proudly Moravian composer just fine. The action of the story, and the libretto Janáček made from it, called for a frog to jump on a human’s nose, and later for that human to pick up a fox cub by the scruff of her neck and carry her home with him — and for all of them to sing about it. In the decade following the opera’s premiere, Walt Disney would show how to make such things happen with paint and cellophane. Updating that kind of visual idea through technology, The Cleveland Orchestra’s madeforCleveland production utilizes digital animation to immerse the orchestra and singers within storytelling that is vivid and direct, while also creating a distinct difference between the human and animal worlds. Many earlier productions have looked like theatrical plays intended merely for children. Janáček probably had something more in mind. And, ultimately, it has been the enchantment of Janáček’s music that has made opera audiences forget they are looking at a sixfoot dragonfly and opera singers overcome their reluctance to act like a chicken. In the comicstrip spirit of the whole enterprise, Janáček was captivated by the vixen’s escapades, and cared little whether they added up to a coherent plot. (A musical precedent, if one were needed, existed in Richard Strauss’s tone poem Till Eulenspiegel and his mixed bag of “merry pranks.”)

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What the old composer was after — and what later wellmeaning “helpers” of this opera didn’t comprehend — was not a drama with a beginning, a middle, and a conclusion, but a sense of life moving in cycles for humans and nonhumans alike, with youth and old age, enterprise and reflection, life and death, yes, even the chicken and the egg, being all part of the same thing. The English musicologist Erik Chisholm, in his classic 1971 book The Operas of Leoš Janáček, dug deep for metaphors to describe this most unconventional opera, beginning with “a sort of Czech Midsummer Night’s Dream” and proceeding to “a pastoral symphony, a sincere and touching tribute to mothernature, an almost Buddhistic hymn in praise of the basic unity of all living creatures.” Of these, perhaps the implied analogy of Janáček to Beethoven is most apt — the rugged individualist composer suddenly awestruck at the order and beauty of the natural world. At the center of it all, representing the life force — or as Janáček’s contemporary George Bernard Shaw would have it, the Eternal Feminine, the — is the irrepressible vixen Bystrouška. Her name means “SharpEars.” Těsnohlídek originally wrote Bystronožka (“SharpPaws”), but the newspaper typesetter misread it — apparently people in Brno didn’t fully understand their dialect either — and the writer decided the new name was just as good. “Bystro” means not only literally sharp and pointy, but also quick, clever, and cunning, and so a literal rendering of the opera’s Czech title, “The Adventures of the Vixen Bystrouška,” has become standardized in English over the years as The Cunning Little Vixen. We meet Bystrouška as a pup separated from her mother, snatched up and raised in captivity by the Gamekeeper, who apparently admires her spunkiness enough to keep her despite her predations on his chickens and his wife’s objections. (Echoes of the composer’s own admiration of young women, and his wife’s perpetual chagrin about it, are audible here.) The episodes — wacky and chaotic as they may be individually — show the little vixen progressing in quite an orderly way through life’s stages:

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Above, Czech artist Stanislav Lolek (1873-1936) in his studio with a painting of foxes.

Opposite, some of Lolek’s drawing for “The Cunning Little Vixen.”

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adolescent hellraising (and, most amusingly, political agitating), declaring her independence (i.e., escaping the Gamekeeper), falling in love, discovering sex, getting married, and raising children. Meanwhile, the opera’s human characters function — if that’s the right word — on a different level of awareness. They are, in words, a bundle of yearnings, regrets, ambivalences, misadventures, disappointments, pints of beer, and goodnatured jokes at each other’s expense. A lot of it is about “the one that got away,” be it the Gamekeeper’s little vixen, which he insists he is not still chasing (even though he is), or the muchlongedfor (but never seen onstage) Terynka, a woman in the village. In the end, of course, for all of us, the whole world does “get away.” That is yet another lifecycle experience that the humans don’t have in this opera, but the vixen does. Surely in no opera before or since has the death of the protagonist been treated as laconically as in this one. It’s Till Eulenspiegel again — the vixen merrily dodges the humans’ bullets, until one day she doesn’t. And the action continues. Life goes on. By this time, in Act III, Janáček as librettist has departed from the comicstrip narrative on an errand of his own — to pull back and put a frame of meaning around all the madcap action. And a delicate and touching frame it is. By stitching together various episodes from the book, he finds the human characters nursing their regrets, and the Gamekeeper venturing stiffly one more time into the forest, only to find that, while he has gotten older, the forest creatures have gotten younger. What? Soon the explanation appears — the vixen cub that darts across his path is not Bystrouška but her daughter, and the frog he catches is not the one that jumped on his nose in Act I, but that frog’s grandson. The Gamekeeper, struck with awe at the renewal of life, lets his gun fall to the ground. (Exactly what that means . . . varies by production, director’s choice, and audience imagination.) That is all the “philosophy” that this charming opera needs. Janáček would never have been so illmannered as to bite the hands of friends such as the critic and translator Max Brod, who did so much to bring him international fame late in his life, but one wonders what he thought of their efforts to Wagnerize this opera with leitmotifhunting and animalhuman plot parallelisms. (In his German translation of Vixen, Brod even brought the village woman Terynka onstage as a human “equivalent” to the vixen.) Janáček’s distinctive musical themes and motifs, with their modal Moravian flavor, certainly do recur at key points to reinforce the action — and it’s interesting how the animal and human characters reflect off each other — but none of this is imposed by some great creaking superstructure. It just happens . . . naturally. —David Wright © 2014

David Wright lives and writes in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He previouslyserved as program annotator of the New York Philharmonic.

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presents

Die tote Stadt(The Dead City)

by Erich KorngoldSaturday, June 14, 2014 at 7:30pm

The Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square1511 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44115

Fully staged, with soloists, chorus, orchestra, costumes, staging, sets, and supertitles to translate the text into English.

Now in its 18th season, Opera Circle has been in Cleveland since 1995. The company has produced over 40 operas, among them an original

commissioned work and numerous northeast Ohio premieres.

“Die tote Stadt” is made possible with special grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The George Gund Foundation and many other generous sponsors.

“Opera Circle deserves heaps of praise both for the conception and execution of this project. I’ll say it again: this was one of the best opera evenings ever!”

– Daniel Hathaway on Massenet’s “Werther,” ClevelandClassical.com

“Experiencing ‘King Roger’ in the flesh for the first time – or at all – must have been a revelation for most audience members. For Opera Circle, the production could only be deemed a triumph.”

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martina Janková the vixenSwiss soprano Martina Janková began her musical training in her native Czech Republic, and later was a prizewinner at Germany’s Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition. She first worked with Franz WelserMöst at the International Opera Studio in Zurich, and has been a member of the Zurich Opera since 1998. Her roles in Zurich have included Angelica in Handel’s Orlando, Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff, Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and Ighino in Pfizner’s Palestrina. Ms. Janková’s recent schedule includes performances at Paris’s Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées and at the Prague National Theater and Prague State Opera. A regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, she has also sung at the festivals of Geneva, Graz, Lucerne, Prague, and Vienna, and at the Janáček Spring Festival, Martinů Festival, and the Rheingau Festival. She has appeared in concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Concentus Musicus Wien, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, and Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra. Martina Janková’s DVDs include Johann Strauss Jr.’s Simplicius for EMI with WelserMöst conducting, as well as appearing in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, and Don Giovanni. She has also recorded albums for DGG Archiv and Philips/Universal. Ms. Janková made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in March 2009 as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, and returned as Despina in Così fan tutte in 2010 and to sing Zerlina in Don Giovanni in March 2011.

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alan held the foresterRecognized among today’s leading singing actors, American bassbaritone Alan Held has appeared in major roles at many of the world’s great opera houses, including the Bavarian State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Munich State Opera, Paris Opera, London’s Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and the Vienna State Opera. He has also performed with major orchestras around the world, including those of Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Montreal, as well as with the Kirov Opera Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has sung at the Salzburg, Saito Kinen, and Tanglewood festivals, and at the BBC Proms. Mr. Held can be heard on an EMI Classics recording of Beethoven’s Fidelio, and in DVDs of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold and a Paris Opera presentation of Hindemith’s Cardillac. A native of Washburn, Illinois, Mr. Held received his vocal training at Millikin University and Wichita State University. His many awards include the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He made his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 2004, and most recently sang here at the 2013 Blossom Music Festival.

Jennifer Johnson cano foxAmerican mezzosoprano Jennifer Johnson Cano’s honors include the 2013 George LondonNorma Newton Award, 2012 Richard Tucker Career Grant, 2011 Sara Tucker Study Grant, and a 2009 Sullivan Foundation Award. The Missouri native earned degrees in music from Webster University and Rice University, and graduated from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Her recent and upcoming schedule includes performances with the orchestras of Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Tucson, and the opera companies of Boston, Cincinnati, and New York. Ms. Cano has performed recitals in Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. Her interest in new music led to her performing in premieres of works by Mason Bates and Jon Harbison. Her tour concerts with Musicians from Marlboro, of compositions by Cuckson and Respighi, were recorded live by the Marlboro Recording Society. She can also be heard in Mahler’s Song of the Earth with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and in DVDs of Robert LePage’s Ring cycle production at the Metropolitan Opera. She made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in May 2012.

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raymond aceto haraštaOhioborn bass Raymond Aceto is an important presence among the world’s leading opera companies and orchestras. He first performed with The Cleveland Orchestra in July 1997 and sang with the Orchestra most recently in March 2013. Mr. Aceto is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. In 1995 and again in 1996, he was awarded Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grants, and has also received a Sullivan Foundation Award. Mr. Aceto has appeared with the Canadian Opera Company, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, L’Opéra de Montréal, San Francisco Opera, and Santa Fe Opera, as well as with Opera Theater of St. Louis and Spoleto Festival USA. In Europe, he performs with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Netherlands Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Madrid’s Teatro Real, and the Vienna State Opera. Raymond Aceto also sings regularly in concert, with engagements including performances with the orchestras of Boston, Dallas, Minnesota, St. Louis, and San Francisco. His discography includes recordings of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

Julie Boulianne lapák the dogFrenchCanadian mezzosoprano Julie Boulianne performs a wide repertoire, with a particular focus on Mozart and Rossini. Winner of the Prix Lyrique Français, she has appeared with Aspen Opera Theater, Festival Opéra de Québec, Glimmerglass Opera, New York’s Metropolitan Opera (where she sang in the HD broadcast of Berlioz’s Les Troyens), and Minnesota Opera, as well as with the opera companies of Montreal, Quebec, Vancouver, and Victoria in Canada, and those of Avignon, Marseille, Paris, Toulon, and Tours in France. In concert, Ms. Boulianne has sung engagements with the the orchestras of Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Colorado, Minnesota, Montreal, Nashville, Ottawa, Quebec, and Utah, among other ensembles. Julie Boulianne is making her Cleveland Orchestra debut with these performances of The Cunning Little Vixen. She has recorded for ATMA Classique, Chaîne Culturelle de RadioCanada, Radio France, and Naxos. A graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, Ms. Boulianne won first prizes in the Canadian Music and Joy of Singing competitions, the International Vocal Arts Institute’s Silverman Prize, and the 2007 Prix de la Chambre des Directeurs for Most Promising Career.

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dashon Burton Parson/BadgerAmerican bassbaritone Dashon Burton previously appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra in May 2005, singing under the direction of Pierre Boulez. He began his professional studies at Case Western Reserve University, graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and then joined Cantus, a professional men’s classical vocal ensemble. Mr. Burton subsequently entered Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and earned a master of music degree in 2011. He has since appeared with Pennsylvania’s Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Copenhagen’s Le Concert Lorrain, Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, Oratorio Society of New York, Philharmonia Baroque, and the Yale Schola Cantorum, among other ensembles. In addition to his work in early music, Mr. Burton has premiered works by William Brittelle and Edie Hill. He is a founding member of Roomful of Teeth, an ensemble devoted to new compositions and winner of the 2013 Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Mr. Burton’s other honors include top prizes from the ARD International Music Competition and International Vocal Competition in the Netherlands, and 2012 Oratorio Society of New York Competition.

david cangelosi schoolmaster/mosquitoTenor David Cangelosi has performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in works by Giordano, Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi, and is especially known for his interpretation of Wagner’s Mime. He has also appeared with the opera companies of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Nashville, St. Louis, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Washington D.C., and in Paris, and recently made his debut at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. In concert, his appearances have included engagements with the orchestras of Boston, Cincinnati, Columbus, Los Angeles, and Montgomery. Mr. Cangelosi serves as artistic director of the Vann Vocal Institute in Montgomery, Alabama. He previously sang with The Cleveland Orchestra in 1999, in operas by Ravel and Bizet. Mr. Cangelosi has recorded Puccini’s Tosca, as well as a scene from Wagner’s Siegfried with Placido Domingo. Born in Parma, Ohio, he attended Baldwin Wallace College, studied musical theater in Maine, and performed for a decade as a nightclub entertainer. In the 1990s, Mr. Cangelosi returned to classical music and became a member of the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. For additional information, visit www.davidcangelosi.com.

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Sandra Ross Forester’s Wife/WoodpeckerMezzo-soprano Sandra Ross has appeared with Cincinnati Opera, Cleveland Opera, Central City Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Opera North, Sorg Opera, and nine seasons with Ohio Light Opera. Born in Cincinnati, she holds a bachelor of music degree from Heidelberg College and a master of music degree from the New England Con-servatory. On the concert stage Ms. Ross has been a soloist in works including Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Prokofi ev’s Alexander Nevsky, and Handel’s Mes-siah, appearing with the orchestras of Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Ashland, Toledo and Youngstown, among other ensembles. She can be heard on a number of recordings with the Ohio Light Opera on Albany Records.

Samantha Gossard Rooster/OwlSamantha Gossard is currently an apprentice artist with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and an artist certifi cate candidate with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she studies with Vinson Cole. Ms. Gossard earned a master of music degree from the Cleve-land Institute of Music (CIM). At CIM, she performed the title role in Handel’s Xerxes, as Cinderella’s stepmother in Massenet’s Cendril-lon, and as Ramiro in Mozart’s La fi nta giardiniera. She also sang as the alto soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the CIM Orchestra. Ms. Gossard was a New Horizon Opera Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School for two summers. She holds bachelor of arts degrees in church music and Christian worship from Indiana Wesleyan University.

Brian Keith Johnson Pásek the InnkeeperBaritone Brian Keith Johnson has performed many roles in opera, from Figaro in Th e Barber of Seville and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte to Ford in Falstaff and Crown in Porgy and Bess. As a member of Actors’ Equity, he has played a variety of musical theater roles, ranging from Jim in Big River to Father/God in Children of Eden. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras across the United States, in repertoire ranging from Bach’s Magnifi cat and Mozart’s Requiem to Brahms’s A German Requiem and Orff ’s Carmina Burana. Mr. Johnson received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Ak-ron and has also studied abroad at the New Opera Academy of Rome and at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

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Marian Vogel Mrs. Pásek/Chief Hen/Blue JaySoprano Marian Vogel made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the soprano solos in the Mozart Requiem and Rutter’s Magnifi cat under the baton of composer John Rutter. She has performed many leading operatic roles, including Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfl y, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, and Violetta in La Traviata, as well as many Gilbert & Sullivan heroines and musical theater roles. Equally at home on the concert stage, Ms. Vogel has appeared in major works across the United States and in Europe. Ms. Vogel is a two-time fi rst prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions and the winner of the Belle O. Morse Young Artist Award. She is a gradu-ate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Laura Schupbach Cricket/Frog/PepíkLaura Schupbach is a native of New Philadelphia, Ohio, and a cur-rent resident of Cleveland. She is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music with a BME degree, having studied voice with Benjamin Czarnota and Althea Maria Papoulia. Ms. Schup-bach has soloed with the Baldwin Wallace Symphony as a concerto competition winner, Tuscarawas Philharmonic Orchestra, Ak-ron Symphony, and the Mansfi eld Symphony, and is a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. She is currently employed as the choir director at Hawken Middle School.

Miranda Scholl Grasshopper/FrantíkMiranda Scholl is making her Cleveland Orchestra debut in these performances of Th e Cunning Little Vixen. Recent roles include Emma Sheppard/Dancer and co-writer for Th is Falling Feeling, Hotspur in Henry IV Part I, Janet Van De Graaf in Th e Drowsy Chaperone, and Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods. Ms. Scholl will graduate from Baldwin Wallace University in 2017 with a bachelor of science degree in psychology and theater.

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PART ONE 2014 CREATIVE VOICES SUMMIT

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Yuval Sharon DIRECTORNamed a “Face to Watch” by the Los Angeles Times, Yuval Sha-ron has been creating an unconventional body of work exploring the interdisciplinary potential of opera. He founded and serves as artistic director of Th e Industry, an experimental opera company in Los Angeles, where his inaugural production of Anne LeBaron’s hyperopera Crescent City was praised by the Los Angeles Times as “groundbreaking” and “reshaping LA Opera.” His second pro-duction, Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities, took place among the everyday life of Union Station, with audiences hearing the live performance on wireless headphones. Th e production was hailed as “the opera of the future” by Wired Magazine; an international tour is currently in development. Mr. Sharon made his European debut with John Adams’s Doctor Atomic at the Badisches Stadtstheater Karlsruhe. He has also directed a landmark production of John Cage Song Books with the San Francisco Symphony. He was project di-rector for four years of New York City Opera’s VOX, an annual workshop of new American opera. He was assistant director to Achim Freyer on the LA Opera Ring cycle and associate director with Graham Vick for the world premiere of Stock-hausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht for the London 2012 Cultural Olympics. His next project is Th e Industry’s production of Gordon Beeferman’s Th e Rat Land.

Walter Robot ANIMATION DESIGNWalter Robot is the award-winning creative team of artist Bill Barminski and di-rector Christopher Louie. Th ey work in various mediums, including fi lm, anima-tion, art, and sculpture. Th eir animation and short-fi lm work has been nominated for a number of awards and featured in vari-ous festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival. Th eir artwork and sculptures have been featured in a variety of galleries, including the famed street art POW Gallery in London. In 2012, they had an exhibit at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica called Th is Side Up. Th ey have worked with a number of notable artists, including Death Cab for Cutie, Kid Cudi, Gnarls Barkley, Rob Th omas, and Modest Mouse. Th eir commercial clients include MTV, American Express, Nokia, Hasbro, Wendy’s, and Absolut Vodka. For more information, visit www.walterrobot.com.

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Jason thompson ProJection/liGhtinGJason H. Thompson has worked as a lighting and projection designer on over fifty productions around the world. His credits include the Broadway musical Baby It’s You!, a oneman multimedia clown show titled Wingman, The Steward of Christendom at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, The Great Immensity and Venice at the Public Theatre, an international touring show with Parsons Dance Company titled Remember Me, Cage Song Books (a 45minute selection of John Cage works performed at Carnegie Hall), projects with the San Francisco Symphony and Miami’s New World Symphony, and Crescent City and Invisible Cities (experimental new operas directed by Yuval Sharon). He has designed the video for Stars on Ice for the last eight years, and has worked with the Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation for the past two years. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and cofounder of Pixel Theory Collective. For more information, visit www.pixeltheorycollective.com.

ann closs-farley costumesAnn ClossFarley designed costumes for Annapurna, which recently opened at the Acorn Theater in New York City with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. Her recent work also includes Last Act of Lilka Kadison, Carnage, Rabbit Hole, Broadway Bound, Ameri-can Misfits, Coney Island Christmas, Eric Idle’s What About Dick?, The Pee-wee Herman Show (on Broadway), Disney’s Toy Story: The Musical for Disney Cruise lines, Eric Idle’s An Evening Without Monty Python, and Around The World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Play House. Ms. ClossFarley also styles and designs for The World Poker Tour, Kaiser Permanente Theatricals, and Disney. For more information, visit www.annclossfarley.com.

cristina Waltz masKsCristina Waltz is an accomplished artist and makeup designer specializing in beauty and special effects. Her diverse list of credits includes department head for film, commercial, music video, and stage. In 2011, Cristina was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup on HBO’s live taping of The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway. As a fine artist, she creates masks and paints fun scenic environments for numerous music videos as well as children’s television. For additional information, visitwww.cristinawaltz.com.

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Robert Porco Director of Choruses Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Endowed Chair The Cleveland Orchestra

Robert Porco became director of choruses for Th e Cleve-land Orchestra in 1998. In addition to overseeing choral activities and preparing the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and the Blossom Festival Chorus for a variety of concert programs each season, Mr. Porco conducts the Orches-tra’s annual series of Christmas concerts at Severance

Hall and regularly conducts subscription concert programs both at Severance Hall and Blossom. He has also served as director of choruses for the Cincinnati May Festival since 1989. In 2011, Mr. Porco was honored by Chorus America with its annual Michael Korn Founders Award for a lifetime of signifi cant contributions to the professional choral art. Th e Ohio native served as chairman of the choral department at Indiana University 1980-98, and in recent years has taught doctoral-level conducting at the school. As teacher and mentor, Mr. Porco has guided and infl uenced the develop-ment of hundreds of musicians, many of whom are now active as professional con-ductors, singers, or teachers. As a sought-aft er guest instructor and coach, he has taught at Harvard University, Westminster Choir College, and the University of Mi-ami Frost School of Music.

Ann Usher Director, Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Choruses

Ann Usher has served as director of the Cleveland Or-chestra Children’s Choruses since 2000. She prepares the Children’s Chorus for their appearances as part of the annual Christmas concerts, community concerts, and in the Orchestra’s performances of operas and sym-phonic works that call for children’s voices. Ms. Usher is a professor at the University of Akron and director of

the School of Music. She teaches graduate and undergraduate choral music edu-cation courses and previously served as interim director of the School of Dance, Th eater, and Arts Administration. She previously taught choral music in the public schools, specializing in the middle school level. Active as a clinician and adjudicator, Ann Usher holds a bachelor of music education degree from the Uni-versity of Northern Iowa, and a master of music degree in choral conducting and a doctorate in music education from Kent State University.

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$50,000 TO $99,999Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationThe Hearst FoundationsMartha Holden Jennings FoundationMyra Tuteur Kahn Memorial Fund of The Cleveland FoundationMarlboro 2465 FoundationMiami-Dade County Department of Cultural Aff airs (Miami)Donald and Alice Noble Foundation, Inc. The Nord Family FoundationThe Payne FundThe Sage Cleveland FoundationSurdna Foundation

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Annual Support gifts of $2,000 or more during the past year, as of March 20, 2014

Th e Cleveland Orchestra gratefully acknowledges and salutes these Foundations and Government agencies for their generous support toward the Orchestra’s Annual Fund, benefi t events, tours and residencies, and special projects.

$2,000 TO $19,999The Abington FoundationAyco Charitable Foundation The Ruth and Elmer Babin FoundationThe Batchelor Foundation, Inc. (Miami)Dr. NE & JZ Berman FoundationThe Bernheimer Family Fund of the Cleveland FoundationBicknell FundEva L. and Joseph M. Bruening FoundationThe Conway Family FoundationMary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable TrustThe Fogelson FoundationThe Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable FoundationThe William O. and Gertrude Lewis Frohring FoundationFunding Arts Network (Miami)The Hankins FoundationThe Muna & Basem Hishmeh FoundationRichard H. Holzer Memorial FoundationThe Jean Thomas Lambert FoundationThe Laub FoundationVictor C. Laughlin, M.D. Memorial Foundation TrustThe G. R. Lincoln Family FoundationThe Mandel Foundation The McGregor FoundationBessie Benner Metzenbaum FoundationM.G. O’Neil FoundationPaintstone FoundationThe Charles E. & Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial FoundationThe Leighton A. Rosenthal Family FoundationSCH FoundationAlbert G. & Olive H. Schlink FoundationHarold C. Schott FoundationJean C. Schroeder FoundationKenneth W. Scott FoundationThe Sherwick FundLloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Memorial FoundationThe South Waite FoundationThe Veale FoundationThe George Garretson Wade Charitable TrustThe S. K. Wellman FoundationThe Welty Family FoundationThomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank TrustThe Edward and Ruth Wilkof FoundationThe Wuliger FoundationAnonymous (2)

Cumulative GivingJOHN L. SEVERANCE SOCIETY$10 MILLION AND MORE

The Cleveland FoundationCuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & CultureKulas FoundationMaltz Family FoundationState of OhioOhio Arts CouncilThe Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation


The George Gund FoundationKnight Foundation (Cleveland, Miami)The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationJohn P. Murphy Foundation


The William Bingham FoundationThe George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation GAR FoundationAnn and Gordon Getty FoundationThe Louise H. and David S. Ingalls FoundationMartha Holden Jennings FoundationElizabeth Ring Mather and William Gwinn Mather FundDavid and Inez Myers FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsThe Eric & Jane Nord Family FundThe Payne FundThe Reinberger FoundationThe Sage Cleveland Foundation

Th e Severance Society recognizes generous contributors of $1 million or more in cumulative giving to Th e Cleveland Orchestra. Listing as of March 2014.


Foundation & Government Support


INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $500,000 AND MORE

Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami) Peter B. Lewis* and Janet Rosel Lewis (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $200,000 TO $499,999

Irma and Norman Braman (Miami) David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation (Miami) The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Mrs. Norma Lerner and The Lerner Foundation Susan Miller (Miami)


James D. Ireland III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. KeithleyDr. and Mrs. Herbert Kloiber (Europe)Mrs. Elizabeth R. Koch Mrs. Emma S. LincolnElizabeth F. McBride Ms. Ginger Warner (Cleveland, Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Franz Welser-Möst Janet* and Richard Yulman (Miami)


Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny and Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Cutler Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Kern Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre The Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Mary M. Spencer (Miami)


Sheldon and Florence Anderson (Miami) Mr. William P. Blair III Mr. Allen H. FordHector D. Fortun (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. HorvitzElizabeth B. Juliano (Cleveland, Miami) R. Kirk Landon and Pamela Garrison (Miami) Toby Devan Lewis

Individual Support

Th e Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association gratefully recognize the individuals listed here, who have provided generous gift s of cash or pledges of $2,500 or more to the Annual Fund, benefi t events, tours and residencies, and special annual donations.


Lifetime Giving JOHN L. SEVERANCE SOCIETY

$10 MILLION AND MORE

Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami, Cleveland)


Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny and Ms. Patricia M. KozerefskiMr. and Mrs. Alexander M. CutlerMrs. Norma Lerner and The Lerner FoundationMrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner


Irma and Norman Braman (Miami) Mr. Francis J. Callahan*Mrs. M. Roger ClappMr. George Gund III*Francie and David Horvitz (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Mr. James D. Ireland III The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre Susan Miller (Miami) Sally S. and John C. Morley The Family of D. Z. NortonThe Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.Charles and Ilana Horowitz RatnerJames and Donna Reid Barbara S. Robinson The Ralph and Luci Schey FoundationMr.* and Mrs. Ward SmithAnonymous (2)

Th e Severance Society recognizes generous contributors of $1 million or more in lifetime giving to Th e Cleveland Orchestra. As of March 2014.

Annual Supportgifts during the past year, as of March 20, 2014

Individual Annual Support76 The Cleveland Orchestra

Individual Annual Support

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. LozickRobert M. Maloney and Laura Goyanes Ms. Beth E. Mooney Mr. Patrick Park (Miami)Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr.Charles and Ilana Horowitz Ratner James and Donna ReidBarbara S. Robinson Sally and Larry Sears Hewitt and Paula Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Barbara and David Wolfort Anonymous


Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Bell (Miami) Dr. and Mrs. Wolfgang Berndt (Europe) Blossom Women’s CommitteeMr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bolton The Brown and Kunze FoundationJeanette Grasselli Brown and Glenn R. Brown Judith and George W. Diehl Mr. and Mrs. Geoff rey Gund George Gund*Trevor and Jennie Jones Giuliana C. and John D. KochDr. Vilma L. KohnCharlotte R. KramerVirginia M. and Jon A. LindsethMs. Nancy W. McCann Sally S. and John C. Morley Mrs. Jane B. NordLuci and Ralph* Schey Rachel R. Schneider Richard and Nancy Sneed (Cleveland, Miami) R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton


Martha and Bruce Clinton (Miami)Robert and Jean* Conrad Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. ConwayDo Unto Others Trust (Miami)George* and Becky DunnDr. and Mrs. Hiroyuki Fujita Gary Hanson and Barbara Klante Mr. and Mrs. Jeff rey Healy Mrs. Marguerite B. Humphrey Junior Committee of The Cleveland OrchestraDr. David and Janice LeshnerMilton and Tamar MaltzMargaret Fulton-Mueller William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill Julia and Larry Pollock

Mr. and Mrs. James A. RatnerMr. and Mrs. James A. Saks Paul and Suzanne Westlake


Gay Cull Addicott Mr. and Mrs. William W. Baker Randall and Virginia BarbatoMr. and Mrs. Matthew V. Crawford Esther L. and Alfred M. Eich, Jr. Jeff rey and Susan Feldman (Miami)Dr. Edward S. Godleski Andrew and Judy Green Mr. and Mrs. Jack HoeschlerRichard and Erica Horvitz (Cleveland, Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Kelly Jonathan and Tina Kislak (Miami) Joy P. and Thomas G. Murdough, Jr. (Miami)Marc and Rennie SaltzbergRaymond T. and Katherine S. SawyerMr. and Mrs. Donald Stelling (Europe)Mr. Joseph F. TetlakTom and Shirley Waltermire Mr. Gary L. Wasserman and Mr. Charles A. Kashner (Miami) The Denise G. and Norman E. Wells, Jr. Family Foundation Women’s Committee of The Cleveland OrchestraAnonymous gift from Switzerland (Europe)


Dr. Christopher P. Brandt and Dr. Beth Sersig Mr. and Mrs. David J. Carpenter Scott Chaikin and Mary Beth Cooper Jill and Paul Clark Mr. Peter and Mrs. Julie Cummings (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Peter O. DahlenColleen and Richard Fain (Miami) Joyce and Ab* GlickmanRichard and Ann Gridley Mrs. John A Hadden Jr.Jack Harley and Judy ErnestMary and Jon Heider (Cleveland, Miami)David and Nancy Hooker Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Jack, Jr.

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INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $500,000 AND MORE

Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami) Peter B. Lewis* and Janet Rosel Lewis (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner


Irma and Norman Braman (Miami) David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation (Miami) The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Mrs. Norma Lerner and The Lerner Foundation Susan Miller (Miami)


James D. Ireland III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. KeithleyDr. and Mrs. Herbert Kloiber (Europe)Mrs. Elizabeth R. Koch Mrs. Emma S. LincolnElizabeth F. McBride Ms. Ginger Warner (Cleveland, Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Franz Welser-Möst Janet* and Richard Yulman (Miami)


Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny and Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Cutler Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Kern Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre The Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Mary M. Spencer (Miami)


Sheldon and Florence Anderson (Miami) Mr. William P. Blair III Mr. Allen H. FordHector D. Fortun (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. HorvitzElizabeth B. Juliano (Cleveland, Miami) R. Kirk Landon and Pamela Garrison (Miami) Toby Devan Lewis

Individual Support

Th e Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association gratefully recognize the individuals listed here, who have provided generous gift s of cash or pledges of $2,500 or more to the Annual Fund, benefi t events, tours and residencies, and special annual donations.


Lifetime Giving JOHN L. SEVERANCE SOCIETY

$10 MILLION AND MORE

Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami, Cleveland)


Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny and Ms. Patricia M. KozerefskiMr. and Mrs. Alexander M. CutlerMrs. Norma Lerner and The Lerner FoundationMrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner


Irma and Norman Braman (Miami) Mr. Francis J. Callahan*Mrs. M. Roger ClappMr. George Gund III*Francie and David Horvitz (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Mr. James D. Ireland III The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre Susan Miller (Miami) Sally S. and John C. Morley The Family of D. Z. NortonThe Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.Charles and Ilana Horowitz RatnerJames and Donna Reid Barbara S. Robinson The Ralph and Luci Schey FoundationMr.* and Mrs. Ward SmithAnonymous (2)

Th e Severance Society recognizes generous contributors of $1 million or more in lifetime giving to Th e Cleveland Orchestra. As of March 2014.

Annual Supportgifts during the past year, as of March 20, 2014

Individual Annual Support76 The Cleveland Orchestra



Andrew and Katherine KartalisTati and Ezra Katz (Miami) Mr.* and Mrs. Arch J. McCartneyMr. Thomas F. McKee Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. MeiselLucia S. NashMr. Gary A. Oatey (Cleveland, Miami) Claudia and Steven Perles (Miami)Steven and Ellen Ross Mr. and Mrs. David A. RuckmanMrs. David Seidenfeld Dr. and Mrs. Neil SethiDavid and Harriet SimonRick, Margarita and Steven Tonkinson (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Jeff rey M. Weiss Anonymous


Mr. and Mrs. William E. Conway Ms. Dawn M. FullRobert K. Gudbranson and Joon-Li Kim Tim and Linda Koelz Mr.* and Mrs. Richard A. ManuelMr. Larry J. Santon Mr. and Mrs. Oliver E. SeikelKim Sherwin Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Umdasch (Europe)

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INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $12,499 Mr. and Mrs. George N. Aronoff Jayusia and Alan Bernstein (Miami) Marsha and Brian Bilzin (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. BowenMr. D. McGregor Brandt, Jr.Paul and Marilyn* BrentlingerAugustine* and Grace CaliguireRichard J. and Joanne ClarkMrs. Barbara CookMrs. Barbara Ann Davis Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Duvin Mike S. and Margaret Eidson (Miami) Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis Jr.Mr. Neil FlanzraichMr. Monte Friedkin (Miami) Francisco A. Garcia and Elizabeth Pearson (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. GarrettAlbert I. and Norma C. Geller Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. GillespieMr. David J. GoldenElaine Harris GreenSondra and Steve HardisMichael L. HardyMr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam IIMr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam IIIT. K. and Faye A. Heston Joan and Leonard HorvitzPamela and Scott Isquick Allan V. Johnson Janet and Gerald Kelfer (Miami) Mr. Jeff LitwillerMr. and Mrs. Thomas B. McGowanEdith and Ted* MillerMr. Donald W. Morrison Elisabeth and Karlheinz Muhr (Europe)Brian and Cindy MurphyMr. Raymond M. Murphy Donald and Alice Noble Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. William M. Osborne, Jr. Brian and Patricia RatnerAudra and George Rose Dr. Tom D. Rose Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ross Dr. Isobel RutherfordCarol* and Albert SchuppDr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer and the Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Estelle Seltzer FoundationMrs. Gretchen D. SmithJim and Myrna SpiraLois and Tom Stauff er Charles B. and Rosalyn Stuzin (Miami) Mrs. Jean H. TaberDr. Russell A. TrussoSandy and Ted Wiese Anonymous (4)*

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $7,500 TO $9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Dean Barry Mr. William BergerLaurel Blossom Mr. Robert W. BriggsDr. and Mrs. Jerald S. BrodkeyDr. Ben H. and Julia Brouhard

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Gay Cull AddicottWilliam W. BakerRonald H. BellHenry C. DollJudy ErnestNicki Gudbranson

Jack Harley Iris HarvieBrinton L. HydeRandall N. Huff David C. LambRaymond T. Sawyer

Barbara Robinson, chairRobert Gudbranson, vice chair

Ongoing annual support gift s are a critical compo-nent toward sustaining Th e Cleveland Orchestra’s eco nomic health. Ticket revenues pro vide only a small portion of the funding needed to support the Orchestra’s outstanding perform ances, education ac-tivities, and community projects.

Th e Leadership Patron Program recognizes generous donors of $2,500 or more to the Orchestra’s Annual Campaign. For more information on the benefi ts of playing a supporting role each year, please contact Elizabeth Arnett, Manager, Leadership Giving, by calling 216-231-7522.

Leadership Annual Campaign Patrons



Andrew and Katherine KartalisTati and Ezra Katz (Miami) Mr.* and Mrs. Arch J. McCartneyMr. Thomas F. McKee Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. MeiselLucia S. NashMr. Gary A. Oatey (Cleveland, Miami) Claudia and Steven Perles (Miami)Steven and Ellen Ross Mr. and Mrs. David A. RuckmanMrs. David Seidenfeld Dr. and Mrs. Neil SethiDavid and Harriet SimonRick, Margarita and Steven Tonkinson (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Jeff rey M. Weiss Anonymous


Mr. and Mrs. William E. Conway Ms. Dawn M. FullRobert K. Gudbranson and Joon-Li Kim Tim and Linda Koelz Mr.* and Mrs. Richard A. ManuelMr. Larry J. Santon Mr. and Mrs. Oliver E. SeikelKim Sherwin Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Umdasch (Europe)

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INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $12,499 Mr. and Mrs. George N. Aronoff Jayusia and Alan Bernstein (Miami) Marsha and Brian Bilzin (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. BowenMr. D. McGregor Brandt, Jr.Paul and Marilyn* BrentlingerAugustine* and Grace CaliguireRichard J. and Joanne ClarkMrs. Barbara CookMrs. Barbara Ann Davis Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Duvin Mike S. and Margaret Eidson (Miami) Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis Jr.Mr. Neil FlanzraichMr. Monte Friedkin (Miami) Francisco A. Garcia and Elizabeth Pearson (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. GarrettAlbert I. and Norma C. Geller Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. GillespieMr. David J. GoldenElaine Harris GreenSondra and Steve HardisMichael L. HardyMr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam IIMr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam IIIT. K. and Faye A. Heston Joan and Leonard HorvitzPamela and Scott Isquick Allan V. Johnson Janet and Gerald Kelfer (Miami) Mr. Jeff LitwillerMr. and Mrs. Thomas B. McGowanEdith and Ted* MillerMr. Donald W. Morrison Elisabeth and Karlheinz Muhr (Europe)Brian and Cindy MurphyMr. Raymond M. Murphy Donald and Alice Noble Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. William M. Osborne, Jr. Brian and Patricia RatnerAudra and George Rose Dr. Tom D. Rose Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ross Dr. Isobel RutherfordCarol* and Albert SchuppDr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer and the Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Estelle Seltzer FoundationMrs. Gretchen D. SmithJim and Myrna SpiraLois and Tom Stauff er Charles B. and Rosalyn Stuzin (Miami) Mrs. Jean H. TaberDr. Russell A. TrussoSandy and Ted Wiese Anonymous (4)*

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $7,500 TO $9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Dean Barry Mr. William BergerLaurel Blossom Mr. Robert W. BriggsDr. and Mrs. Jerald S. BrodkeyDr. Ben H. and Julia Brouhard

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Gay Cull AddicottWilliam W. BakerRonald H. BellHenry C. DollJudy ErnestNicki Gudbranson

Jack Harley Iris HarvieBrinton L. HydeRandall N. Huff David C. LambRaymond T. Sawyer

Barbara Robinson, chairRobert Gudbranson, vice chair

Ongoing annual support gift s are a critical compo-nent toward sustaining Th e Cleveland Orchestra’s eco nomic health. Ticket revenues pro vide only a small portion of the funding needed to support the Orchestra’s outstanding perform ances, education ac-tivities, and community projects.

Th e Leadership Patron Program recognizes generous donors of $2,500 or more to the Orchestra’s Annual Campaign. For more information on the benefi ts of playing a supporting role each year, please contact Elizabeth Arnett, Manager, Leadership Giving, by calling 216-231-7522.

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Ellen E. & Victor J. Cohn Supporting Foundation Henry and Mary Doll Nancy and Richard DotsonHarry and Joyce Graham Mr. Paul Greig Kathleen E. HancockMary Jane Hartwell Iris and Tom Harvie Mrs. Sandra L. HaslingerAmy and Stephen Hoff man Joela Jones and Richard Weiss Kenneth M. Lapine and Rose E. Mills Judith and Morton Q. Levin Mr. and Mrs.* Robert P. Madison Mr. J. William and Dr. Suzanne Palmer Pannonius Foundation Douglas and Noreen PowersPaul A. and Anastacia L. Rose Rosskamm Family TrustPatricia J. Sawvel Drs. Daniel and Ximena Sessler Naomi G. and Edwin Z. Singer Family Fund Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. StaubMr. and Mrs. Donald W. Strang, Jr.Mrs. Marie S. Strawbridge*Bruce and Virginia Taylor Dr. Gregory Videtic Anonymous (2)

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $7,499 Norman and Helen Allison Susan S. AngellMr.* and Mrs. Albert A. AugustusMr. and Mrs. Robert H. Baker Stephen Barrow and Janis Manley (Miami) Fred G. and Mary W. BehmDr. Ronald and Diane Bell Drs. Nathan A. and Sosamma J. Berger Dr. and Mrs. Eugene H. BlackstoneFrank and Leslie Buck Mr. and Mrs. William C. Butler Ms. Maria Cashy Drs. Wuu-Shung and Amy Chuang Dr. William and Dottie Clark Mrs. Lester E. Coleman Mr. Owen ColliganMarjorie Dickard ComellaCorinne L. Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences Mr. and Mrs. Ralph DaugstrupMr. and Mrs. Edward B. DavisMr. and Mrs. Thomas S. DavisPete and Margaret Dobbins Mr. and Mrs. Terry C. Z. EggerDr. and Mrs. Robert ElstonMary and Oliver Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Alex Espenkotter (Miami)Dr. D. Roy and Diane A. FergusonChristopher Findlater (Miami)Barbara and Peter GalvinJoy E. GarapicBrenda and David GoldbergMr. and Mrs. Henry J. GoodmanMr. and Mrs. Randall J. GordonRobert N. and Nicki N. Gudbranson David and Robin Gunning

Clark Harvey and Holly SelvaggiHenry R. Hatch Robin Hitchcock Hatch Barbara Hawley and David GoodmanJanet D. Heil*Anita and William HellerThomas and Mary Holmes Mr. and Mrs. John Hudak (Miami)Bob and Edith Hudson (Miami)Ms. Charlotte L. HughesMr. James J. Hummer Mr. and Mrs. Brinton L. HydeMr. and Mrs. Christopher Hyland Donna L. and Robert H. JacksonMr. and Mrs. Richard A. JanusRudolf D. and Joan T. KamperMilton and Donna* Katz Dr. Richard and Roberta KatzmanDr. and Mrs. William S. KiserMr. and Mrs.* S. Lee KohrmanMrs. Justin Krent Mr. Donald N. KrosinMr. and Mrs. Peter A. Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Lafave, Jr.Mr. Brian J. LambDavid C. Lamb Shirley and William Lehman (Miami) Mr. Lawrence B. and Christine H. LeveyMr. and Mrs. Adam LewisMr. Dylan Hale Lewis (Miami)Ms. Marley Blue Lewis (Miami)Mr. Jon E. Limbacher and Patricia J. LimbacherElsie and Byron LutmanMr. and Mrs. Alex Machaskee Ms. Jennifer R. MalkinMr. and Mrs. Morton L. MandelAlan Markowitz M.D. and Cathy PollardAlexander and Marianna C.* McAfee Ms. Maureen M. McLaughlin (Miami)James and Virginia Meil Claudia Metz and Thomas Woodworth Mr. and Mrs. Abraham C. Miller (Miami)Drs. Terry E. and Sara S. MillerDavid and Leslee MiraldiMr. and Mrs. William A. MitchellAnn Jones MorganRichard and Kathleen NordMr. Henry Ott-HansenNan and Bob Pfeifer Mr. and Mrs. John S. Piety Dr. and Mrs. John N. Posch William and Gwen PreucilLois S.* and Stanley M. ProctorMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. QuintrellDrs. Raymond R. Rackley and Carmen M. Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. RankinMs. Deborah ReadMr. William J. RossMr. and Mrs. Robert C. RuhlMrs. Florence Brewster Rutter Mr. and Mrs. David R. SawyierBob and Ellie Scheuer David M. and Betty SchneiderLinda B. SchneiderDr. and Mrs. James L. SechlerLee G. and Jane SeidmanCharles Seitz (Miami) listings continue


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Ellen E. & Victor J. Cohn Supporting Foundation Henry and Mary Doll Nancy and Richard DotsonHarry and Joyce Graham Mr. Paul Greig Kathleen E. HancockMary Jane Hartwell Iris and Tom Harvie Mrs. Sandra L. HaslingerAmy and Stephen Hoff man Joela Jones and Richard Weiss Kenneth M. Lapine and Rose E. Mills Judith and Morton Q. Levin Mr. and Mrs.* Robert P. Madison Mr. J. William and Dr. Suzanne Palmer Pannonius Foundation Douglas and Noreen PowersPaul A. and Anastacia L. Rose Rosskamm Family TrustPatricia J. Sawvel Drs. Daniel and Ximena Sessler Naomi G. and Edwin Z. Singer Family Fund Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. StaubMr. and Mrs. Donald W. Strang, Jr.Mrs. Marie S. Strawbridge*Bruce and Virginia Taylor Dr. Gregory Videtic Anonymous (2)

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $7,499 Norman and Helen Allison Susan S. AngellMr.* and Mrs. Albert A. AugustusMr. and Mrs. Robert H. Baker Stephen Barrow and Janis Manley (Miami) Fred G. and Mary W. BehmDr. Ronald and Diane Bell Drs. Nathan A. and Sosamma J. Berger Dr. and Mrs. Eugene H. BlackstoneFrank and Leslie Buck Mr. and Mrs. William C. Butler Ms. Maria Cashy Drs. Wuu-Shung and Amy Chuang Dr. William and Dottie Clark Mrs. Lester E. Coleman Mr. Owen ColliganMarjorie Dickard ComellaCorinne L. Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences Mr. and Mrs. Ralph DaugstrupMr. and Mrs. Edward B. DavisMr. and Mrs. Thomas S. DavisPete and Margaret Dobbins Mr. and Mrs. Terry C. Z. EggerDr. and Mrs. Robert ElstonMary and Oliver Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Alex Espenkotter (Miami)Dr. D. Roy and Diane A. FergusonChristopher Findlater (Miami)Barbara and Peter GalvinJoy E. GarapicBrenda and David GoldbergMr. and Mrs. Henry J. GoodmanMr. and Mrs. Randall J. GordonRobert N. and Nicki N. Gudbranson David and Robin Gunning

Clark Harvey and Holly SelvaggiHenry R. Hatch Robin Hitchcock Hatch Barbara Hawley and David GoodmanJanet D. Heil*Anita and William HellerThomas and Mary Holmes Mr. and Mrs. John Hudak (Miami)Bob and Edith Hudson (Miami)Ms. Charlotte L. HughesMr. James J. Hummer Mr. and Mrs. Brinton L. HydeMr. and Mrs. Christopher Hyland Donna L. and Robert H. JacksonMr. and Mrs. Richard A. JanusRudolf D. and Joan T. KamperMilton and Donna* Katz Dr. Richard and Roberta KatzmanDr. and Mrs. William S. KiserMr. and Mrs.* S. Lee KohrmanMrs. Justin Krent Mr. Donald N. KrosinMr. and Mrs. Peter A. Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Lafave, Jr.Mr. Brian J. LambDavid C. Lamb Shirley and William Lehman (Miami) Mr. Lawrence B. and Christine H. LeveyMr. and Mrs. Adam LewisMr. Dylan Hale Lewis (Miami)Ms. Marley Blue Lewis (Miami)Mr. Jon E. Limbacher and Patricia J. LimbacherElsie and Byron LutmanMr. and Mrs. Alex Machaskee Ms. Jennifer R. MalkinMr. and Mrs. Morton L. MandelAlan Markowitz M.D. and Cathy PollardAlexander and Marianna C.* McAfee Ms. Maureen M. McLaughlin (Miami)James and Virginia Meil Claudia Metz and Thomas Woodworth Mr. and Mrs. Abraham C. Miller (Miami)Drs. Terry E. and Sara S. MillerDavid and Leslee MiraldiMr. and Mrs. William A. MitchellAnn Jones MorganRichard and Kathleen NordMr. Henry Ott-HansenNan and Bob Pfeifer Mr. and Mrs. John S. Piety Dr. and Mrs. John N. Posch William and Gwen PreucilLois S.* and Stanley M. ProctorMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. QuintrellDrs. Raymond R. Rackley and Carmen M. Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. RankinMs. Deborah ReadMr. William J. RossMr. and Mrs. Robert C. RuhlMrs. Florence Brewster Rutter Mr. and Mrs. David R. SawyierBob and Ellie Scheuer David M. and Betty SchneiderLinda B. SchneiderDr. and Mrs. James L. SechlerLee G. and Jane SeidmanCharles Seitz (Miami) listings continue


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Ms. Nancy A. Adams Dr. and Mrs. D. P. AgamanolisMrs. Joanne M. Bearss Mr. and Mrs. Jules BelkinHoward R. and Barbara Kaye BesserSuzanne and Jim BlaserMs. Mary R. Bynum and Mr. J. Philip Calabrese Dr. and Mrs. William E. Cappaert Mrs. Millie L. CarlsonMr. and Mrs. Frank H. CarpenterMr.* and Mrs. Robert A. ClarkDrs. Mark Cohen and Miriam Vishny Diane Lynn Collier Thomas and Dianne CoscarelliMs. Maureen A. Doerner and Mr.

Geoff rey T. WhitePeter and Kathryn Eloff Mr. Brian L. Ewart and Mr. William McHenryDavid and Margaret EwartMr. and Mrs. John R. FraylickPeggy and David* FullmerDr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Gould Nancy and James GrunzweigMr. Robert D. HartHazel Helgesen* and Gary D. Helgesen

Mr. David and Mrs. Dianne Hunt Dr. and Mrs. Scott R. InkleyHelen and Erik JensenBarbara and Michael J. KaplanMr. James and Mrs. Gay* Kitson Dr. Gilles and Mrs. Malvina KlopmanMr. Thomas and Mrs. Deborah KniesnerCynthia Knight (Miami)Mr. and Ms. James KoenigMarion KonstantynovichJudy and Donald Lefton (Miami) Ronald and Barbara Leirvik Mr. and Mrs. Irvin A. Leonard Dr. Alan and Mrs. Joni Lichtin Anne R. and Kenneth E. LoveRobert and LaVerne* LugibihlJoel and Mary Ann MakeeMartin and Lois MarcusWilliam and Eleanor* McCoyDr. Susan M. MerzweilerBert and Marjorie MoyarRichard B. and Jane E. Nash Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. OsenarDr. Lewis and Janice B. PattersonMr. Robert S. PerryMr. and Mrs. Richard W. Pogue In memory of Henry Pollak

Dr. Robert W. ReynoldsMrs. Charles RitchieAmy and Ken Rogat Carol Rolf and Steven AdlerFred Rzepka and Anne Rzepka Family FoundationDr. and Mrs. Martin I. Saltzman Mr. Paul H. ScarbroughGinger and Larry ShaneMs. Frances L. SharpMr. Richard Shirey Howard and Beth SimonMr. and Mrs. William E. Spatz Mr. Taras G. Szmagala, Jr.Mr. Karl and Mrs. Carol TheilMr. and Mrs. Lyman H. TreadwayDrs. Anna* and Gilbert TrueMiss Kathleen Turner Mr. and Mrs. Mark Allen Weigand Richard Wiedemer, Jr. Nancy V. and Robert L. Wilcox Mr. and Dr. Ann WilliamsTony and Diane Wynshaw-BorisAnonymous

Mr. Eric Sellen and Mr. Ron SeidmanMrs. Frances G. ShoolroyMarjorie B. Shorrock David Kane Smith Dr. Marvin and Mimi Sobel George and Mary Stark Howard Stark M.D. and Rene Rodriguez (Miami)Stroud Family TrustDr. Elizabeth Swenson Ms. Lorraine S. Szabo Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Teel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thornton Mr.* and Mrs. Robert N. Trombly

Robert and Marti Vagi Don and Mary Louise Van Dyke Bill Appert and Chris Wallace (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Watkins Robert C. Weppler Dr. Edward L. and Mrs. Suzanne WestbrookTom and Betsy WheelerSandy Wile and Susan NamenFred* and Marcia Zakrajsek Anonymous (4)



Mr. and Mrs. Charles Abookire, Jr. Nancy L. Adams, PhD Stanley I. and Hope S. AdelsteinMr. and Mrs. Monte AhujaMr. and Mrs. Robert J. AmsdellMr. and Mrs. Jeff rey R. AppelbaumDr. Mayda AriasMr. and Mrs. James B. Aronoff Agnes ArmstrongGeraldine and Joseph BabinMs. Delphine BarrettEllen and Howard BenderMr. Roger G. BerkKerrin and Peter Bermont (Miami)Barbara and Sheldon BernsMargo and Tom BertinJulia and David Bianchi (Cleveland, Miami) Carmen Bishopric (Miami)Bill* and Zeda Blau

Doug and Barbara BletcherDennis and Madeline BlockMr. and Mrs. Richard H. BoleJohn and Anne BourassaLisa and Ron BoykoMr. and Mrs. David BriggsMrs. Ezra BryanJ. C. and Helen Rankin ButlerLeigh CarterMr. and Mrs. James B. ChaneyDr. and Mrs. Ronald ChapnickMs. Mary E. ChilcoteMr. and Mrs. Homer D. W. ChisholmDaniel D. Clark and Janet A. Long Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Cohen (Miami)Dr. Dale and Susan Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Manohar DagaMrs. Frederick F. DannemillerCharles and Fanny Dascal (Miami)Jeff rey and Eileen Davis

Mrs. Lois Joan DavisDr. and Mrs. Richard C. DistadDr. M. Meredith Dobyns Mr. George and Mrs. Beth DownesHarry and Ann FarmerDr. Aaron Feldman and Mrs. Margo HarwoodMs. Karen FethCarl and Amy FischerMr. Isaac FisherScott Foerster, Foerster and BohnertJoan Alice FordMrs. Amasa B. FordMr. Randall and Mrs. Patrice FortinMarvin Ross Friedman and Adrienne bon Haes (Miami)Arthur L. FullmerJeanne GallagherMarilee L. Gallagher


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Ms. Nancy A. Adams Dr. and Mrs. D. P. AgamanolisMrs. Joanne M. Bearss Mr. and Mrs. Jules BelkinHoward R. and Barbara Kaye BesserSuzanne and Jim BlaserMs. Mary R. Bynum and Mr. J. Philip Calabrese Dr. and Mrs. William E. Cappaert Mrs. Millie L. CarlsonMr. and Mrs. Frank H. CarpenterMr.* and Mrs. Robert A. ClarkDrs. Mark Cohen and Miriam Vishny Diane Lynn Collier Thomas and Dianne CoscarelliMs. Maureen A. Doerner and Mr.

Geoff rey T. WhitePeter and Kathryn Eloff Mr. Brian L. Ewart and Mr. William McHenryDavid and Margaret EwartMr. and Mrs. John R. FraylickPeggy and David* FullmerDr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Gould Nancy and James GrunzweigMr. Robert D. HartHazel Helgesen* and Gary D. Helgesen

Mr. David and Mrs. Dianne Hunt Dr. and Mrs. Scott R. InkleyHelen and Erik JensenBarbara and Michael J. KaplanMr. James and Mrs. Gay* Kitson Dr. Gilles and Mrs. Malvina KlopmanMr. Thomas and Mrs. Deborah KniesnerCynthia Knight (Miami)Mr. and Ms. James KoenigMarion KonstantynovichJudy and Donald Lefton (Miami) Ronald and Barbara Leirvik Mr. and Mrs. Irvin A. Leonard Dr. Alan and Mrs. Joni Lichtin Anne R. and Kenneth E. LoveRobert and LaVerne* LugibihlJoel and Mary Ann MakeeMartin and Lois MarcusWilliam and Eleanor* McCoyDr. Susan M. MerzweilerBert and Marjorie MoyarRichard B. and Jane E. Nash Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. OsenarDr. Lewis and Janice B. PattersonMr. Robert S. PerryMr. and Mrs. Richard W. Pogue In memory of Henry Pollak

Dr. Robert W. ReynoldsMrs. Charles RitchieAmy and Ken Rogat Carol Rolf and Steven AdlerFred Rzepka and Anne Rzepka Family FoundationDr. and Mrs. Martin I. Saltzman Mr. Paul H. ScarbroughGinger and Larry ShaneMs. Frances L. SharpMr. Richard Shirey Howard and Beth SimonMr. and Mrs. William E. Spatz Mr. Taras G. Szmagala, Jr.Mr. Karl and Mrs. Carol TheilMr. and Mrs. Lyman H. TreadwayDrs. Anna* and Gilbert TrueMiss Kathleen Turner Mr. and Mrs. Mark Allen Weigand Richard Wiedemer, Jr. Nancy V. and Robert L. Wilcox Mr. and Dr. Ann WilliamsTony and Diane Wynshaw-BorisAnonymous

Mr. Eric Sellen and Mr. Ron SeidmanMrs. Frances G. ShoolroyMarjorie B. Shorrock David Kane Smith Dr. Marvin and Mimi Sobel George and Mary Stark Howard Stark M.D. and Rene Rodriguez (Miami)Stroud Family TrustDr. Elizabeth Swenson Ms. Lorraine S. Szabo Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Teel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thornton Mr.* and Mrs. Robert N. Trombly

Robert and Marti Vagi Don and Mary Louise Van Dyke Bill Appert and Chris Wallace (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Watkins Robert C. Weppler Dr. Edward L. and Mrs. Suzanne WestbrookTom and Betsy WheelerSandy Wile and Susan NamenFred* and Marcia Zakrajsek Anonymous (4)



Mr. and Mrs. Charles Abookire, Jr. Nancy L. Adams, PhD Stanley I. and Hope S. AdelsteinMr. and Mrs. Monte AhujaMr. and Mrs. Robert J. AmsdellMr. and Mrs. Jeff rey R. AppelbaumDr. Mayda AriasMr. and Mrs. James B. Aronoff Agnes ArmstrongGeraldine and Joseph BabinMs. Delphine BarrettEllen and Howard BenderMr. Roger G. BerkKerrin and Peter Bermont (Miami)Barbara and Sheldon BernsMargo and Tom BertinJulia and David Bianchi (Cleveland, Miami) Carmen Bishopric (Miami)Bill* and Zeda Blau

Doug and Barbara BletcherDennis and Madeline BlockMr. and Mrs. Richard H. BoleJohn and Anne BourassaLisa and Ron BoykoMr. and Mrs. David BriggsMrs. Ezra BryanJ. C. and Helen Rankin ButlerLeigh CarterMr. and Mrs. James B. ChaneyDr. and Mrs. Ronald ChapnickMs. Mary E. ChilcoteMr. and Mrs. Homer D. W. ChisholmDaniel D. Clark and Janet A. Long Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Cohen (Miami)Dr. Dale and Susan Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Manohar DagaMrs. Frederick F. DannemillerCharles and Fanny Dascal (Miami)Jeff rey and Eileen Davis

Mrs. Lois Joan DavisDr. and Mrs. Richard C. DistadDr. M. Meredith Dobyns Mr. George and Mrs. Beth DownesHarry and Ann FarmerDr. Aaron Feldman and Mrs. Margo HarwoodMs. Karen FethCarl and Amy FischerMr. Isaac FisherScott Foerster, Foerster and BohnertJoan Alice FordMrs. Amasa B. FordMr. Randall and Mrs. Patrice FortinMarvin Ross Friedman and Adrienne bon Haes (Miami)Arthur L. FullmerJeanne GallagherMarilee L. Gallagher


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Mrs. Georgia T. GarnerLoren and Michael GarrutoMr. Wilbert C. Geiss, Sr.Anne and Walter GinnMr. and Mrs. David A. Goldfi nger Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. GrafThe Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber

Charitable Foundation Mr. Davin and Mrs. Jo Ann GustafsonDr. Phillip M. and Mrs. Mary HallNorman C. and Donna L. Harbert Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hastings Sally and Oliver HenkelMr. and Mrs. Jerry HerschmanMr. Robert T. HexterDr. and Mrs. Robert L. HinnesDr. Feite F. Hofman*Dr.* and Mrs. George H. HokePeter A. and Judith HolmesDr. Keith A. and Mrs. Kathleen M. HooverDr. Randal N. Huff and Ms. Paulette Beech Ms. Carole HughesMs. Luan K. Hutchinson Ruth F. Ihde Ms. LaVerne JacobsonDr. Michael and Mrs. Deborah JoyceRev. William C. Keene Angela Kelsey and Michael Zealy (Miami)The Kendis Family Trust: Hilary & Robert Kendis and Susan & James KendisBruce and Eleanor KendrickFred and Judith KlotzmanMr. Ronald and Mrs. Kimberly KolzJacqueline and Irwin Kott (Miami)Ellen Brad and Bart KovacDr. Ronald H. Krasney and Ms.* Sherry Latimer Marcia Kraus Mr. James Krohngold Mr. and Mrs. S. Ernest KulpMrs. Carolyn LamplMr. and Mrs. John J. LaneAnthony T. and Patricia A. Lauria Mr. Jin-Woo LeeIvonete Leite (Miami)Michael and Lois A. LemrDr. Edith LernerDr. Stephen B. and Mrs. Lillian S. Levine Robert G. Levy Mr. Rudolf and Mrs. Eva LinnebachMartha Klein LottmanMs. Mary Beth LoudHerbert L. and Rhonda MarcusDr. and Mrs. Sanford E. Marovitz David* and Elizabeth MarshDr. Ernest and Mrs. Marian MarsolaisMr. Julien L. McCallMs. Nancy L. MeachamMr. James E. Menger

Stephen and Barbara Messner Ms. Betteann MeyersonMr. and Mrs. Roger Michelson (Miami)Curt and Sara MollSusan B. MurphyJoan Katz Napoli and August NapoliMr. David and Mrs. Judith NewellMarshall I. Nurenberg and Joanne KleinRichard and Jolene O’Callaghan Harvey and Robin OppmannNedra and Mark Oren (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. PaddockMr. and Mrs. Christopher I. Page Deborah and Zachary ParisMr. Thomas and Mrs. Tommie PattonMrs. Ingrid PetrusDrs. John Petrus and Sharon DiLauroDr. Roland S. Philip and Dr. Linda M. Sandhaus Dale and Susan PhillipMs. Maribel Piza (Miami)Dr. Marc and Mrs. Carol PohlMs. Carolyn PriemerMr. Richard and Mrs. Jenny Proeschel Kathleen PudelskiMs. Rosella PuskasDr. James and Lynne Rambasek Ms. C. A. ReaganAlfonso Conrado Rey (Miami)David and Gloria RichardsMichael Forde RipichMs. Linda M. RocchiRobert and Margo RothMiss Marjorie A. RottMichael and Roberta RusekDr. Lori RusterholtzDr. Harry S. and Rita K. Rzepka Ms. Patricia E. SayMr. James Schutte Ms. Adrian L. ScottDr. John Sedor and Ms. Geralyn PrestiHarry and Ilene ShapiroMs. Marlene SharakNorine W. SharpDr. and Mrs. William C. Sheldon Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Shiverick, Jr. Grover Short Laura and Alvin A. SiegalRobert and Barbara SlaninaMs. Donna-Rae SmithMr. and Mrs. Richey SmithMr. and Mrs.* Jeff rey H. SmytheMrs. Virginia SnappMs. Barbara SnyderLucy and Dan SondlesMr. John C. Soper* and Dr. Judith S. Brenneke Mr. John D. SpechtMr.* and Mrs.* Lawrence E. StewartMr. Joseph StroudKen and Martha Taylor

Greg and Suzanne ThaxtonDr. and Mrs. Thomas A. TimkoSteve and Christa TurnbullMrs. H. Lansing Vail, Jr.Robert A. ValenteBrenton Ver Ploeg (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Joaquin Vinas (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Les C. Vinney Dr. Michael Vogelbaum and Mrs. Judith RosmanMs. Laure A. WasserbauerPhilip and Peggy WasserstromEric* and Margaret WayneMr. and Mrs. Jerome A. WeinbergerDr. Paul R. and Catherine WilliamsRichard and Mary Lynn WillsMichael H. Wolf and Antonia Rivas-WolfMr. Robert Wolff and Dr. Paula SilvermanKatie and Donald WoodcockKay and Rod WoolseyElizabeth B. Wright Rad and Patty YatesDr. William ZeleiMr. Kal Zucker and Dr. Mary Frances HaerrAnonymous (7) *



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Mrs. Georgia T. GarnerLoren and Michael GarrutoMr. Wilbert C. Geiss, Sr.Anne and Walter GinnMr. and Mrs. David A. Goldfi nger Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. GrafThe Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber

Charitable Foundation Mr. Davin and Mrs. Jo Ann GustafsonDr. Phillip M. and Mrs. Mary HallNorman C. and Donna L. Harbert Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hastings Sally and Oliver HenkelMr. and Mrs. Jerry HerschmanMr. Robert T. HexterDr. and Mrs. Robert L. HinnesDr. Feite F. Hofman*Dr.* and Mrs. George H. HokePeter A. and Judith HolmesDr. Keith A. and Mrs. Kathleen M. HooverDr. Randal N. Huff and Ms. Paulette Beech Ms. Carole HughesMs. Luan K. Hutchinson Ruth F. Ihde Ms. LaVerne JacobsonDr. Michael and Mrs. Deborah JoyceRev. William C. Keene Angela Kelsey and Michael Zealy (Miami)The Kendis Family Trust: Hilary & Robert Kendis and Susan & James KendisBruce and Eleanor KendrickFred and Judith KlotzmanMr. Ronald and Mrs. Kimberly KolzJacqueline and Irwin Kott (Miami)Ellen Brad and Bart KovacDr. Ronald H. Krasney and Ms.* Sherry Latimer Marcia Kraus Mr. James Krohngold Mr. and Mrs. S. Ernest KulpMrs. Carolyn LamplMr. and Mrs. John J. LaneAnthony T. and Patricia A. Lauria Mr. Jin-Woo LeeIvonete Leite (Miami)Michael and Lois A. LemrDr. Edith LernerDr. Stephen B. and Mrs. Lillian S. Levine Robert G. Levy Mr. Rudolf and Mrs. Eva LinnebachMartha Klein LottmanMs. Mary Beth LoudHerbert L. and Rhonda MarcusDr. and Mrs. Sanford E. Marovitz David* and Elizabeth MarshDr. Ernest and Mrs. Marian MarsolaisMr. Julien L. McCallMs. Nancy L. MeachamMr. James E. Menger

Stephen and Barbara Messner Ms. Betteann MeyersonMr. and Mrs. Roger Michelson (Miami)Curt and Sara MollSusan B. MurphyJoan Katz Napoli and August NapoliMr. David and Mrs. Judith NewellMarshall I. Nurenberg and Joanne KleinRichard and Jolene O’Callaghan Harvey and Robin OppmannNedra and Mark Oren (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. PaddockMr. and Mrs. Christopher I. Page Deborah and Zachary ParisMr. Thomas and Mrs. Tommie PattonMrs. Ingrid PetrusDrs. John Petrus and Sharon DiLauroDr. Roland S. Philip and Dr. Linda M. Sandhaus Dale and Susan PhillipMs. Maribel Piza (Miami)Dr. Marc and Mrs. Carol PohlMs. Carolyn PriemerMr. Richard and Mrs. Jenny Proeschel Kathleen PudelskiMs. Rosella PuskasDr. James and Lynne Rambasek Ms. C. A. ReaganAlfonso Conrado Rey (Miami)David and Gloria RichardsMichael Forde RipichMs. Linda M. RocchiRobert and Margo RothMiss Marjorie A. RottMichael and Roberta RusekDr. Lori RusterholtzDr. Harry S. and Rita K. Rzepka Ms. Patricia E. SayMr. James Schutte Ms. Adrian L. ScottDr. John Sedor and Ms. Geralyn PrestiHarry and Ilene ShapiroMs. Marlene SharakNorine W. SharpDr. and Mrs. William C. Sheldon Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Shiverick, Jr. Grover Short Laura and Alvin A. SiegalRobert and Barbara SlaninaMs. Donna-Rae SmithMr. and Mrs. Richey SmithMr. and Mrs.* Jeff rey H. SmytheMrs. Virginia SnappMs. Barbara SnyderLucy and Dan SondlesMr. John C. Soper* and Dr. Judith S. Brenneke Mr. John D. SpechtMr.* and Mrs.* Lawrence E. StewartMr. Joseph StroudKen and Martha Taylor

Greg and Suzanne ThaxtonDr. and Mrs. Thomas A. TimkoSteve and Christa TurnbullMrs. H. Lansing Vail, Jr.Robert A. ValenteBrenton Ver Ploeg (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Joaquin Vinas (Miami)Mr. and Mrs. Les C. Vinney Dr. Michael Vogelbaum and Mrs. Judith RosmanMs. Laure A. WasserbauerPhilip and Peggy WasserstromEric* and Margaret WayneMr. and Mrs. Jerome A. WeinbergerDr. Paul R. and Catherine WilliamsRichard and Mary Lynn WillsMichael H. Wolf and Antonia Rivas-WolfMr. Robert Wolff and Dr. Paula SilvermanKatie and Donald WoodcockKay and Rod WoolseyElizabeth B. Wright Rad and Patty YatesDr. William ZeleiMr. Kal Zucker and Dr. Mary Frances HaerrAnonymous (7) *



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Th e Cleveland Orchestra is sustained through the support of thousands of generous patrons, including members of the Leadership Patron Program listed on these pages. Listings of all annual donors of $300 and more each year are published in the Orchestra’s Annual Report, which can be viewed online at CLEVELANDORCHESTRA.COM

For information about how you can play a supporting role with Th e Cleveland Orch estra, please contact our Philanthropy & Advancement Offi ce by calling 216-231-7545.


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Georgian exterior was constructed to harmonize with the classical architecture of other prominent buildings in the University Circle area. The interior of the building reflects a combination of design styles, including Art Deco, Egyptian Revival, Classicism, and Modernism. An extensive renovation, restoration, and expansion of the facility was completed in January 2000. In addition to serving as the home of The Cleveland Orchestra for concerts and rehearsals, the building is rented by a wide variety of local organizations and private citizens for performances, meetings, and gala events each year.

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the cleveland orchestra at home in lakewood may 17-24

The Cleveland Orchestra, in partnership with businesses, schools, and organizations of Lakewood, puts a spotlight on this near westside community and its excellent music education programs, in a week of residency May 17 through May 24. Visit clevelandorchestra.com for complete details.

saturday, may 17 10:30 a.m. — Root Cafe Solo performance by a Cleveland Orchestra musician

10:30 a.m. — Blackbird Baking Company Solo and duo performances by Cleveland Orchestra musicians

11:00 a.m. — Nature’s Bin Special music-related event

sunday, may 18 10:00 a.m. — Lakewood Baptist Church “The Mosaic of Music” — worship and fellowship

Porchestra A special afternoon of music-making and neighborly gatherings throughout Lakewood, sponsored by Charter One

4:00 p.m. — City-wide porch performances (outdoors)

5:15 p.m. — Lakewood Public Library (outdoors) Front Porch Concert with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus followed by Cleveland Orchestra musicians at 6 p.m.

monday, may 19 5:30 p.m. — Lakewood Family YMCA Kickball Game with Cleveland Orchestra musicians and staff

7:00 p.m. — Beck Center for the Arts Preview talk about the May 24 Community Concert

tuesday, may 20 1:30 p.m. — Barton Senior Center Cleveland Orchestra musicians in performance

Wednesday, may 21 6:00 p.m. — Pier W deck (outdoors) Cleveland Orchestra musicians in performance

thursday, may 22 12:00 p.m. — Lakewood Hospital Cleveland Orchestra musicians in performance

friday, may 23 6:00 p.m. — Vosh Cleveland Orchestra musicians in performance

8:00 p.m. — Mahall’s Cleveland Orchestra musicians in performance

saturday, may 24 11:00 a.m. — Turkish American Cultural Center Pre-concert Story Time and Musical Rainbow program

7:30 p.m. — Lakewood Civic Auditorium CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA COMMUNITY CONCERT Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Massimo La Rosa, trombone

s P r i n G s e a s O nohlsson Plays GriegThursday may 8 at 7:30 p.m.Saturday may 10 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAOsmo Vänskä, conductorgarrick Ohlsson, piano

SALLINEN Symphony No. 1 gRIEg Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 Sponsor: Jones Day

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CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA yOUTH ORCHESTRABrett Mitchell, conductorAnn yu, violin

TORkE Bright Blue Music PROkOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

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30-minute programs for ages 3 to 6.

family concert — the composer is deadFriday may 16 at 7:30 p.m. <18s

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRABrett Mitchell, conductorNathaniel Stookey, narrator

There’s dreadful news from Severance Hall — the composer is dead! The musicians are most certainly guilty of some-thing. Where were the violins on the night in question? Did anyone see the harp? Is the trumpet protesting a bit too boisterously? Everyone seems to have a motive, everyone has an alibi, and nearly everyone is a musical instrument. Join the Inspector as he interrogates all the unusual sus-pects in a concert based on the book by Lemony Snicket with the music of Nathaniel Stookey.

Sponsor: The Giant Eagle Foundation

For a complete schedule of future events and performances, or to purchase tickets online 24/ 7 for Cleveland Orchestra concerts, visit www.clevelandorchestra.com.

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family concertthe composer is deadFriday may 16 at 7:30 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRABrett Mitchell, conductorNathaniel Stookey, narrator

Oh, dear! There’s dreadful news from Severance Hall — the composer is dead! The musicians are most certainly guilty of something. Where were the violins on the night in question? Everyone seems to have a motive, everyone has an alibi, and nearly everyone is a musical instrument. Join the Inspector as he interrogates all the unusual suspects in a concert based on the book by Lemony Snicket and with music by Nathan-iel Stookey.

Sponsor: The Giant Eagle Foundation

leoš Janáček’sthe cunninG little vixenSaturday may 17 at 8:00 p.m.Tuesday may 20 at 7:30 p.m. <18s

Thursday may 22 at 7:30 p.m.Saturday may 24 at 2:00 p.m. <18s

Martina Janková, sopranoAlan Held, bass-baritoneJennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-sopranoRaymond Aceto, bassJulie Boulianne, mezzo-sopranoDashon Burton, bass-baritoneDavid Cangelosi, tenorand theCleveland Orchestra ChorusCleveland Orchestra Children’s ChoruswithTHE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by Franz welser-Möst

Don’t miss the opera event of the season! With this brand-new, made-for-Cleveland production of Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, presented with inno-vative and original animation. (Opera sung in Czech with projected English supertitles.) Directed by Yuval Sharon. Animation by Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie — Wal-ter Robot Studios. Projection and lighting design by Jason Thompson. Costumes by Ann Closs-Farley. Masks by Cristina Waltz.

Presented with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Prokofiev’s CinderellaThursday may 29 at 7:30 p.m.Friday may 30 at 11:00 a.m. <18s

Saturday may 31 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAVladimir Jurowski, conductorJanine Jansen, violin* STRAVINSky Scherzo fantastique BRITTEN Violin Concerto* PROkOFIEV Suite from Cinderella Sponsor: BakerHostetler

* not part of Friday Morning Coffee concert

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Concerts with this symbol are eligible for "Under 18s Free" ticketing. The Cleveland Orchestra is committed to developing the youngest audience of any orchestra in the United States. Our "Under 18s Free" program offers free tickets for young people attending with their families (one per paid adult admission).

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AT sEVErANCE hALLconcert dininG and concession service Severance Restaurant at Severance Hall is open for pre-concert dining. For reservations, call 216-231-7373, or make your plans on-line by visit-ing clevelandorchestra.com. Concert concession service of beverages and light refreshments is available before most concerts and at intermissions in the Smith Lobby on the street level, in the Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer, and in the Dress Circle Lobby.

free PuBlic tours Free public tours of Severance Hall are offered on select Sundays during the year. Free public tours of Severance Hall this season are on October 13, December 1, January 12, February 16, March 30, and May 4. For more information or to make a reserva-tion for these tours, please call the Severance Hall Ticket Office at 216-231-1111. Private tours can be arranged for a fee by calling 216-231-7421.

the cleveland orchestra store A wide variety of items relating to The Cleve-land Orchestra — including logo apparel, compact disc recordings, and gifts — are available for pur-chase at the Cleveland Orchestra Store before and after concerts and during intermission. The Store is also open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cleveland Orchestra subscribers receive a 10% discount on most items purchased. Call 216-231-7478 for more information, or visit the Store online at clevelandorchestra.com

atm — automated teller machine For our patrons’ convenience, an ATM is located in the Lerner Lobby of Severance Hall, across from the Cleveland Orchestra Store on the ground floor.

questions If you have any questions, please ask an usher or a staff member, or call 216-231-7300 during regular weekday business hours, or email to [email protected]

rental oPPortunities Severance Hall, a Cleveland landmark and home of the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra, is the perfect location for business meetings and confer-ences, pre- or post-concert dinners and receptions, weddings, and social events. Catering provided by Marigold Catering. Premium dates are available. Call the Facility Sales Office at 216-231-7420 or email to [email protected]

BEforE ThE CoNCErTGaraGe ParKinG and Patron access Pre-paid parking for the Campus Center Ga-rage can be purchased in advance through the Tick-et Office for $15 per concert. This pre-paid parking ensures you a parking space, but availability of pre-paid parking passes is limited. To order pre-paid parking, call the Severance Hall Ticket Office at 216-231-1111. Parking can be purchased for the at-door price of $11 per vehicle when space in the Campus Cen-ter Garage permits. However, the garage often fills up well before concert time; only ticket holders who purchase pre-paid parking passes are ensured a parking space. Overflow parking is available in CWRu Lot 1 off Euclid Avenue, across from Sever-ance Hall; University Circle Lot 13A on Adelbert Road; and the Cleveland Botanical Garden.

friday matinee ParKinG Due to limited parking availability for Friday Matinee performances, patrons are strongly en-couraged to take advantage of convenient off-site parking and round-trip shuttle services available from Cedar Hill Baptist Church (12601 Cedar Road). The fee for this service is $10 per car.

concert PrevieWs Concert Previews at Severance Hall are present-ed in Reinberger Chamber Hall on the ground floor (street level), except when noted, beginning one hour before most Cleveland Orchestra concerts.

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AT ThE CoNCErTcoat checK Complimentary coat check is available for concertgoers. The main coat check is located on the street level midway along each gallery on the ground floor.

PhotoGraPhy, video, and audio recordinG Audio recording, photography, and videogra-phy are strictly prohibited during performances at Severance Hall. As courtesy to others, please turn off any phone or device that makes noise or emits light.

reminders Please disarm electronic watch alarms and turn off all pagers, cell phones, and mechanical devices before entering the concert hall. Patrons with hearing aids are asked to be attentive to the sound level of their hearing devices and adjust them accordingly. To ensure the listening pleasure of all patrons, please note that anyone creating a disturbance of any kind may be asked to leave the concert hall.

late seatinG Performances at Severance Hall start at the time designated on the ticket. In deference to the comfort and listening pleasure of the audience, late-arriving patrons will not be seated while music is being performed. Latecomers are asked to wait quietly until the first break in the program, when ushers will assist them to their seats. Please note that performances without intermission may not have a seating break. These arrangements are at the discretion of the House Manager in consulta-tion with the conductor and performing artists.

services for Persons With disaBilities

Severance Hall provides special seating op-tions for mobility-impaired persons and their com-panions and families. There are wheelchair- and scooter-accessible locations where patrons can remain in their wheelchairs or transfer to a concert seat. Aisle seats with removable armrests are also available for persons who wish to transfer. Tickets for wheelchair accessible and companion seating can be purchased by phone, in person, or online. As a courtesy, Severance Hall provides wheel-chairs to assist patrons in going to and from their seats. Patrons can arrange a loan by calling the House Manager at 216-231-7425 TTY line access is available at the public pay phone located in the Security Office. Infrared As-sistive Listening Devices are available from a Head usher or the House Manager for most performanc-

es. If you need assistance, please contact the House Manager at 216-231-7425 in advance if possible. Service animals are welcome at Severance Hall. Please notify the Ticket Office when purchasing tickets.

in the event of an emerGency Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building. ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency. Contact an usher or a member of the house staff if you re-quire medical assistance.

security For security reasons, backpacks, musical instru-ment cases, and large bags are prohibited in the concert halls. These items must be checked at coat check and may be subject to search. Severance Hall is a firearms-free facility. No person may possess a firearm on the premises.

children Regardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat through-out the performance. Season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under the age of seven. However, Family Concerts and Musical Rainbow programs are designed for families with young children. Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra performances are recommended for older children.

TiCkET sErViCEsticKet exchanGes Subscribers unable to attend on a particular concert date can exchange their tickets for a dif-ferent performance of the same week’s program. Subscribers may exchange their subscription tickets for another subscription program up to five days prior to a performance. There will be no service charge for the five-day advance ticket exchanges. If a ticket exchange is requested within 5 days of the performance, there is a $10 service charge per concert. Visit clevelandorchestra.com for details and blackout dates.

unaBle to use your ticKets? Ticket holders unable to use or exchange their tickets are encouraged to notify the Ticket Office so that those tickets can be resold. Because of the demand for tickets to Cleve land Orchestra perfor-mances, “turnbacks” make seats available to other music lovers and can provide additional income to the Orchestra. If you return your tickets at least 2 hours before the concert, the value of each ticket will be treated as a tax-deductible contribution. Patrons who turn back tickets receive a cumulative donation acknowledgement at the end of each cal-endar year.

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See also the concert calendar listing on pages 90-91, or visit The Cleveland Orchestra online for a complete schedule of future events and performances, or to purchase tickets online 24/ 7 for Cleveland Orchestra concerts.

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ProKofiev’scinderella Thursday may 29 at 7:30 p.m.Friday may 30 at 11:00 a.m.* <18s

Saturday may 31 at 8:00 p.m.THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAVladimir Jurowski, conductorJanine Jansen, violin*

Prokofiev’s Cinderella is a fairytale score, delicate and charming. But like all fairytales, a dark undercurrent runs beneath. In this score, the chiming of a clock can sound like a thunderous battlefield, while the waltzes and love scenes sing. Benjamin Britten’s charming Violin Concerto* and Stravinsky’s explosive Scherzo fantastique round out this weekend’s season-ending concerts with guest conductor Vladimir Jurowski and violinst Janine Jansen.

Sponsor: BakerHostetler

* Not part of the Friday Morning concert.

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star-sPanGledsPectacularBrought to You by Cuyahoga Arts & CultureWednesday July 2 at 9:00 p.m.Public Square, ClevelandTHE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRALoras John Schissel, conductorhosted by Dee Perry

Join thousands of your neighbors, family, and friends for a very special evening celebrat-ing Independence Day. Each summer since 1989, The Cleveland Orchestra has presented a free concert in downtown Cleveland. This year, the Orchestra celebrates our nation’s founding with a spectacular concert, ending with Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture and fire-works. Brought to you by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

Pre-Concert Festival activities begin at 5:00 p.m. The concert begins at 9:00 p.m. Admission is free, no tickets are required.

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Turning Passion Into Purpose

Take a bow, Cleveland. We truly couldn’t have done it without you. For 100 years, you have helped us grant more than $1.7 billion to improve the lives of Greater Clevelanders. And to that, we say, “Bravo!”

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