The Rite of Spring & Autumn Cellobration programs

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The Rite of Spring Autumn Cellobration September 21, 2013 October 19, 2013

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2013–14 season concerts

Opening Night:The Rite of Spring

September 21

Autumn Cellobration

October 19

Winter DreamsNovember 23

Holiday Pops December 13

Cosi fan tutteMozart

Birthday BashJanuary 25

Beethoven and Beyond

March 22

Season Finale: Brahms Festival

April 12

Beethoven Lives UpstairsNovember 24

Sing-Along with Santa

December 7

The PlanetsMarch 23

Full repertoire, venue, and pricing information available online.

String Quartet October 4

Woodwind Quartet

November 1

Trumpet Fanfare January 17

String SoireeMarch 14

Season FinaleApril 18

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KINDERCONCERTSERIES

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September 20, 21, & 30

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President’s WelcomeOn behalf of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to welcome you to tonight’s concert and to celebrate our 85th season!

I acknowledge the wonderful partnerships within the A2SO community that support our commitment to artistic excellence: our extraordinary musicians, the talented Music Director and Conductor Arie Lipsky, our Board

Members, dedicated Staff, Volunteers, Patrons, and Donors. You are our Community!

As a result of your support, the quality of our music expands beyond the walls of the Michigan Theater to the educational experiences we provide to over 26,000 area youngsters in a five-county area. In addition, we have our annual Holiday Pops Concert, our Sunday Family Concert Series, and our Chamber Recital Series. As we work toward financial sustainability, your continued support is critical to our attainment of this goal.

As evidenced by my serving on our Symphony Board for the last 15 years, I am truly honored to be this year’s A2SO Board President. Working together we can provide an outstanding orchestral and educational experience here in Ann Arbor. With your help, I am pleased to lead our Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra into the Future!

Thank you,

J. Robert GatesPresident

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PresidentJ. Robert Gates

First Vice President SecretaryAnn T. Hollenbeck Steven C. Pierce

Treasurer Past PresidentRichard D. Hendricks William J. Maxbauer

Vice Presidents

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Your Ann Arbor Symphony OrchestraFrom its inception as a shared dream among a group of music-loving friends to its establishment as a premier regional orchestra, under the leadership of 13 conductors over the course of 85 years, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra remains passionately committed to enriching Michigan’s culture through musical performance and dedicated connection to the community.

The A2SO (then the “Ann Arbor Community Orchestra,” and later the “Ann Arbor Civic Orchestra”) offered its first major program in November 1931, after being founded in 1928. By 1935 the orchestra was organized under the general administration of Ann Arbor’s Parks and Recreation Department. In 1941, distinguished music educator Joseph Maddy, who had founded what would later become the Interlochen Center for the Arts, became the fourth conductor of the Symphony, which was still made up of amateur players. By 1986, the A2SO had become a fully professional orchestra under conductor Carl St.Clair. In 2000, Arie Lipsky was chosen as the organization’s new Music Director, and the Symphony has grown in its artistic quality ever since.

A2SO concerts frequently feature world-class guest soloists, including Laura Aikin, Anton Nel, Adam Golka, Roman Rabinovich, and even American Idol star David Archuleta. But the Symphony is most privileged to be part of a community that is already enriched with musical talent; local virtuosi such as Measure for Measure Men’s Chorus, trumpeter Bill Campbell, and vocalists Melody Racine and Stephen West, and many more also join the A2SO on stage regularly.

We are especially proud of our commitment to new works and commissioning area composers. In September 2010, the A2SO gave the Michigan premiere of Ann Arbor composer Michael Daugherty’s emotional tour de force Trail of Tears, featuring Amy Porter.

In 2009, the A2SO released its first CD, featuring the music of contemporary composer Paul Fetler, as part of Naxos’s “American Classics” series. The CD consists of live performances of Fetler’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with concertmaster Aaron Berofsky as soloist, Capriccio for orchestra, and Three Poems of Walt Whitman, narrated by Thomas Blaske. AnnArbor.com describes the recording as “startlingly wonderful” and praises Fetler’s “evocative lyricism…in music that is itself protean in color, style, and mood.”

2012 marked all-time records for highest concert attendance at Hill

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Orchestra Members With theName Instrument A2SO SinceEric Amidon Cello 1999Donald Babcock Principal Trombone 2001Emily Barkakati Violin 2010Jennifer Berg Violin 2011Aaron Berofsky Concertmaster 2003Judy Blank Violin 1984Brian Bowman Principal Clarinet 2006Janine Bradbury Viola 2010William Campbell Principal Trumpet 2008Kurt Civilette Horn 2010Sarah Cleveland Principal Cello 1995Ken Davis Violin 2011Daniel DeSena Percussion 2001Karen Donato Violin 2007John Dorsey Principal Percussion 1981Linda Etter Violin 1983Penelope Fischer Principal Flute 1988David Ford Viola 2004Becky Gawron Trumpet 2012Kathleen Grimes Principal Viola 1992Antione Hackney Viola 2003Scott Hartley Trombone 1980Fritz Kaenzig Principal Tuba 2006Tamara Kosinski Horn 2000Sabrina Lackey Cello 2002David Lamse Violin 1999James Lancioni Principal Timpani 1981Greg Lanzi Trombone-Bass 1992Rachel Lopez Flute/Piccolo 2005

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Whether on the CD, in the concert hall or the classroom, the A2SO attracts, inspires and educates the most diverse audience possible; fosters a growing appreciation for excellent music and regional talent; and provides imaginative programming through community involvement. Join us this season as we help you experience Music in the Key of A2

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With theName Instrument A2SO SinceJon Luebke Bass 1998Johnathan McNurlen Viola 2012Ben Melsky Harp 2011Sharon Meyers-Bourland Violin 2003Timothy Michling Oboe 2010Lori Newman Flute 2001Anne Ogren Violin 1990David Ormai Violin 2008Andrew Pelletier Principal Horn 2006Amy Pikler Viola 2012Gregg Emerson Powell Principal Bass 1992Téa Prokes Asst. Concertmaster 2011Kristin Reynolds Oboe/Eng. Horn 1988Britton Riley Cello 2010Robert Rohwer Bass 2000Elliott Ross Clarinet 2004Katie Rowan Violin 1987Alicia Rowe Cello 1994Bernice Schwartz Horn 1992Elizabeth Soukup Bass 2011Daniel Stachyra Violin 2007Timothy Steeves Violin 2012Barbara Sturgis-Everett Principal Second Violin 1989Daniel Thomas Cello 2007Eric Varner Principal Bassoon 2000; 2011Kathryn Votapek Assoc. Concertmaster 2003Jenny Wan Violin 2012Yeh-Chi Wang Bassoon 2010Cyril Zilka Violin 1987Barbara Zmich Viola 1994Erin Zurbuchen Bass 1995

Auditions this fall will add additional players.

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Arie LipskyThe Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 season will be the 14th under the baton of conductor Arie Lipsky. Conductor and Music Director Lipsky joined the A2SO in 2000, and from that time has helped grow the symphony, improve its level of music artistry, and expand its audience to all of Southeast Michigan.

Born in Israel where he received extensive training as a cellist and as a flutist, Arie Lipsky was just nine when he won the first of many prestigious musical competitions allowing him to solo with his town’s orchestra. After this impressive success, he began to appear in concerts throughout Israel and Europe. Mr. Lipsky subsequently began serious study of composition and conducting. His mentors include Semyon Bychkov, Yoel Levi and Kurt Mazur in conducting and Pablo Casals and Leonard Rose on cello. He holds degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Music which he received before serving in the Israeli Army.

After moving to the United States, Mr. Lipsky served as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Ohio Opera. He moved to Buffalo in 1984 to become the Buffalo Philharmonic’s principal cellist and in 1990, he became the Resident Conductor. In early 1995, on short notice, Arie replaced the late Eduardo Mata conducting the Israel Chamber Orchestra, where his success resulted in return engagements with many of Israel’s orchestras. Lipsky also conducted the Arthur Rubinstein Orchestra in Lódź, Poland. Lipsky is the Music Director of the Ashland Symphony (Ohio), Principal Guest Conductor of Haifa Symphony Orchestra, and also conducts major orchestras in the United States, Canada and Europe.

An elegant and expressive conductor, Lipsky garners high praise from some of the world’s best conductors. Semyon Bychkov, Music Director of L’Orchestre de Paris, calls Mr. Lipsky “. . . a born conductor,” and Yoel Levi, former Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, says that “As a musician Arie is first class; his technique is excellent, his memory outstanding . . . he knows how to communicate and is well deserving of respect and admiration.”

Lipsky continues to grow a tremendous and loyal audience in Southeastern Michigan with concerts where both discerning and casual listeners alike are calling what they hear as “an Ann Arbor Symphony sound” of confidence and clarity. As one reviewer said,

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“under the baton of Music Director Lipsky, the Orchestra played with finesse and polish that experience brings to bear.”

Lipsky and the A2SO have created a CD, distributed on the Naxos label, of three pieces by American composer Paul Fetler.

Education and outreach are key drivers to Mr. Lipsky’s musical vision. Last season he visited over 3,000 youngsters in classrooms and coached orchestral and band classes in a five-county area around Ann Arbor. He continues the important side-by-side concert programs with the Pinckney Schools.

Mr. Lipsky records on the Fleur de Son Classics label. His CD, New Arts Trio in Recital at Chautauqua, was reviewed by Fanfare Magazine: “this is one of the most interesting and exciting discs of piano trios, or any chamber music, or any classical music I have ever heard.” Arie was a member of the New Arts Trio in residence at the Chautauqua Institute, where he serves as Director of Chamber Music.

Arie resides with his wife Rachel and daughter Inbal in Amherst, New York and is looking forward to moving with his family to A2 in 2014.

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Arie’s Musings

Welcome to tonight’s concert.

Ann Arbor abounds with contrasts we all love: big-town amenities like its own professional orchestra, and world-class businesses. We love its small-town feel through close-knit neighborhoods where caring conversations take place over coffee served on front porches, or where all Little Leaguers celebrate at dusk at the Washtenaw Dairy. It’s a city of high energy and slow foods. Put what may seem to some to be opposites attributes of big and small city together, and you have perfection.

Our 85th season is like Ann Arbor – it is a season of contrasts: each part of each carefully designed concert enhances one another to make perfection.

Consider Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony. I guarantee you will be humming every sweet melody at the end of the concert, but I bet no one can sing along with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Yet Stravinsky’s powerhouse completes this concert because its driving rhythm beats to the core of our being. Put melody and rhythm together and we make a perfect whole.

Consider October’s warm, lush and burnished sounds of Dvorák’s Symphony No. 7, contrasting with Bartók’s native folk dances with a distinctly Debussy-like feel. Or compare November’s evocative melodies for Tchaikovsky’s Winter Dreams and the time-bending rhythms of Pärt’s Fratres. The perfection of pairing yin and yang continues in March with Beethoven’s classic bold melodies contrasted with the driving rhythm of one of the most-performed pieces of the past 30 years, Adams’ Short Ride.

I love Ann Arbor and all of its contrasts. I look forward to moving very soon to this amazing city that has embraced me this many years. I love its people, its energy, its contrasts, and its unique melodies and rhythms. The very same contrasts which are the essence of our town are at the heart of our season.

See you at the Symphony,

Arie LipskyMusic Director and Conductor

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Arie’s trio featuring arrangmnt of Beethoven Symph. #2

Arie’s trio’s newest featuring Dvorák’s “Dumky” Trio

CDs Available in Lobby

A2SO CD

Aaron Berofsky’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Arie’s trio featuring Beethoven and Brahms

Julie Albers with Orion Weiss

Sound provided by Paragon Sight & Sound

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The Rite of Spring broke all the rules.

Stravinsky jettisoned tradition to make heretofore unheard of leaps in intervals. He crashed heart-racing rhythms one upon the other. Diaghilev dismissed tradition by costuming the dancers not in fluffy tutus, but in austere, primitive jerkins with masks that chill by mimicking the then state-of-the-art gas masks. Nijinsky added to the tumult by choreographing all dancers to cock ankle, knee, elbow, and wrist into austere angles, not the traditional arm or leg extensions or graceful curves. A horribly rainy and cold year dampened the audience’s spirits. Food was scarce. Tempers were hair-trigger wired to set economic class against class.

Thanks to A2SO member Linda Etter’s wonderful resource library about the nervous splendor of that time in world history, I have learned much about The Rite of Spring revolution. The story of the riot is legend (perhaps more legend about the riotous music than about the actual bubbling of political, cultural and economic distress). What I find even more fascinating is how those broken rules of The Rite of Spring have subsequently been wholeheartedly adopted. Composers like Bartók wrote in complicated time signatures and harnessed complicated, driving rhythms. The knock-knees and angular elbows became the modern rage in order to dance the Charleston.

Certainly Bartók and Prokofiev benefitted from Stravinsky breaking the rules. The showpiece that Julie Albers so shines in is wondrous because it takes the next exuberant steps in harmony, melody and rhythm.

It is a great start to a great season. Yet, some other orchestras would say that your A2SO is breaking all the rules. Many orchestras wouldn’t dare program the gamut of selections we present because they fear the repertoire is too daunting or too full of contrasts for most audiences.

I applaud each one of you here tonight – longtime listeners as well as those of you just dipping your toe to test the A2SO waters. You represent a most amazing and savvy audience. I personally thank you for choosing to be here tonight to enjoy the A2SO’s positive musical experience.

See you at the Symphony,

Mary Steffek BlaskeExecutive Director

Breaking the Rules

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Arie Lipsky, Conductor

Program

September 21, 2013 Michigan Theater

This concert is sponsored by the Ray & Eleanor Cross Foundation

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Overture to Candide ............................................................Leonard Bernstein

Marilyn and Gerald Woolfolk gratefully sponsor tonight’s music in celebration of Marilyn’s long and fulfilling career at

The University of Michigan School of Dentistry.

Commedia for (almost) 18th-centuryorchestra ...........................................................................................William Bolcom

The music for tonight’s performance is sponsored by George and Kathryn Foltz to honor Arie Lipsky as he begins a new season

conducting the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (“Unfinished”) .............. Franz Schubert Allegro moderato Andante con moto

The music for tonight’s performance is sponsored by Brad and Lydia Bates in honor of Brad’s “Trombone” birthday on Oct. 13th.

Intermission

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Le Sacre du printemps - The Rite of Spring ...............Igor Stravinsky Part One: Adoration of the Earth Introduction The Augurs of Spring Dance of the Young Girls Ritual of Abduction Spring Rounds Ritual of the Rival Tribes Procession of the Sage The Sage Dance of the Earth

Part Two: The Sacrifice Introduction Mysterious Circles of the Young Girls Glorification of the Chosen One Evocation of the Ancestors Ritual Action of the Ancestors Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

The music for tonight’s performance is sponsored by Stan and Rusty Towers in honor of their 50th Wedding Anniversary.

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Program Notes sponsored by by Edward Yadzinsky

© Copyright 2013 by Edward Yadzinsky

Overture to Candide Leonard BernsteinBorn August 25, 1918; Lawrence, MassachusettsDied October 14, 1990; New York City Leonard Bernstein was a brilliant lecturer, an author, a man of letters, a keyboard virtuoso equally at home from Scarlatti to Gershwin, a conductor/crusader for “classical music” of every kind, a composer and publisher, and a political activist with a not-to-be-crossed Liberal disposition. In a word, he was a 20th century Renaissance man with the charisma of a rock star. On top of this, “Lenny” was the number-one box-office attraction for any orchestra lucky enough to have him appear as a guest maestro.

But as we look far ahead, Bernstein will doubtless be remembered first and foremost as a composer: the ballet Fancy Free, a concerto for piano and orchestra titled The Age of Anxiety, three symphonies, assorted chamber music, the film score for On the Waterfront and his theater works including On the Town, West Side Story, and Candide.

We might be surprised to learn that Candide has a connection to the great German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Leibniz claimed that clear reason will show that humanity resides “in the best of all possible worlds.” Well, that was simply too much for the French philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778), who in 1759 wrote his theater piece, Candide, as a spoof on such a simple-headed folly. Voltaire’s parody countered that, all things considered, it was best “to cultivate one’s own garden,” as we live in a world of endless caprice.

Since its premiere in 1956 Bernstein’s Candide has enjoyed wide acclaim as a masterpiece of musical theater. The light-hearted music of the Overture is filled with frivolity in 7/4 time, cascades of colorful writing for the orchestral woodwinds and strings and brazen accents from the percussion and brass. Splendid!

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Commedia for (almost) 18th-century orchestraWilliam BolcomBorn 1938; Seattle, Washington

A native of Seattle, composer William Bolcom concluded his formal study of composition with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen in Paris. In addition to his current position as Professor Emeritus of composition at U-M, Bolcom has been distinguished with many important awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Music, two Koussevitzky Foundation Awards, two Guggenheim Fellowships, several Rockefeller Foundation Awards and NEA Grants, the Marc Blitzstein Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the Michigan Council for the Arts Award, the Governor’s Arts Award from the State of Michigan, and 2007 Composer of the Year.

Many of his compositions have been written on commission for a variety of prestigious venues, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Orpheus Ensemble. Bolcom has also scored important works for leading soloists including James Galway, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman ,and Richard Stoltzman.

Other commissions include the Carnegie Hall Centennial, for which he wrote a song cycle with texts by American women poets, ballet scores for the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Murray Louis Troupe, as well as a work for the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

The composer writes:In 1971 I was asked by Sydney Hodkinson, composer and conductor of the newly formed St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, to write a piece for his fledgling organization. The unusual disposition of the orchestra — one flute, two oboes, one clarinet, two bassoons, two horns, a keyboard and a small complement of strings (timpani were added later) — suggested an 18th-century ensemble, thus the subtitle “for (almost) 18th-century orchestra.”

I’ve always been fascinated by the commedia dell’arte with its stock characters Harlequin, Columbine and Punchinello who, given a plot, would improvise a play in character. Commedia’s Italianate atmosphere is intensified by the tarantella that is central to the piece. While writing the program note for the first performance of Commedia in Minneapolis in 1972, I happened by pure coincidence upon this apposite quote:

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“…but after being bitten by the Tarantula, there was, according to popular opinion, no way of saving lives except by music....Those who were bitten generally fell into a state of melancholy and appeared to be stupefied....This condition was, in many cases, united with so great a sensibility to music that, at the very first tones of their favorite melodies, they sprang up, shouting for joy, and danced on without intermission, until they sank to the ground exhausted.... The number of those affected by it increased beyond all belief, for who ever had...even fancied that he had been bitten by a poisonous spider...made his appearance annually whenever the merry notes of the Tarantella resounded.”

[Dancing Mania in the Middle Ages, J.F.C. Hecker, M.D., 1837] By far my most-played orchestral work, Commedia has been performed well over a thousand times. It was first recorded by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 1975 under Dennis Russell Davies.

Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (“Unfinished”) Franz SchubertBorn January 31, 1797; near Vienna, AustriaDied November 19, 1828; Vienna

Few citizens of Vienna were poorer than Franz Schubert – but neither kings nor queens had such wealth to share. His fortune was melody, and like a true fountain of youth, masterpieces in song poured from his pen while he was yet a teenager. Then came a sunshower of chamber music, nine symphonies, overtures, operas and ballets, in addition to a trove of sacred works as if borrowed from heaven. Beethoven said it best: “Truly, Schubert has a divine spark.” By the time of his sad demise at the age of 31, his catalog comprised more than 1,000 works. Astonishing.

A perennial question must be addressed: why was Symphony No. 8 left with just two completed movements instead of the usual four? Some historians suggest that Schubert simply believed his musical intent was fulfilled after completing the second movement. However, the composer had sketched a few bars for a third movement Scherzo – so something surely was up. We are left to conclude that a particular event distracted him from the eighth. Some biographers believe that Schubert had become seriously ill at the time, forcing his hand. A few weeks later, with presentiments of a short life, he wrote: “Take my life, my flesh and blood, let them fall into Lethe’s waters, to a purer,

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stronger state. Deign me, Great One, to transform.” (In Greek myth, tasting the river Lethe brings sweet oblivion.)

It is known only that Schubert turned the new score over to a prominent Viennese family in 1823, perhaps in payment for a debt (he had many). The work was held in estate for 42 years before it was noticed and released for its premiere in 1865.

As for the music of the “Unfinished,” it is as perfectly formed as a Grecian Urn – lithe, lyrical, ever more lovely at every glance. Perhaps a story is at hand: one can feel its drama, sense its urgent appeal –serious, noble and serene, resonant with an Ode once expressed by another young artist of the same age and era:

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

– John Keats (1795-1821)

The music begins with a lissome theme, cast deeply in the cellos and basses. Over anxious violins, the woodwinds intone a haunting melody, escorted by languid horns. Then, again in the cellos, a shadowy and exquisite Ländler (folk tune) is heard in G major. A beautifully sculpted sonata development unfolds before a stoic coda softly blends to a close.

Marked Andante con moto, the second movement is cast in two expansive sections, in abbreviated sonata form. The essence of the orchestration and the rhythmic flow seem to gently mirror the spirit of the opening Allegro, slowly spinning its sheer poetry to close in the soft light of pristine E Major.

Events of 1822 (Symphony No. 8 composed)- Public stages first begin running from Detroit- Rosetta Stone decoded by J.F. Champollion- First typesetting machine invented in England- S.S. Robert Fulton is first commercial steamship- Sir Walter Scott writes The Fortunes of Nigel- John Constable paints View on the Stour- First permanent photograph by J.N. Niepce- “Chateaubriand” defined as dinner steak in France- Greenwich Village established in Manhattan- U.S. population exceeds 9.6 million

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Le Sacre du printemps - The Rite of SpringIgor Stravinsky Born June 17, 1882; near St. Petersburg, RussiaDied April 6, 1971; New York City

Most of the major symphonic works of the 20th century were scored by relatively few composers, almost all of whom emerged from the Romantic Zeitgeist of the late 1800s: Stravinsky, Mahler, Bartók, Schönberg, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, Elgar and Ravel.

Beyond the list of major players, the greater challenge is to absorb the vast range of musical styles which emerged from those revered pens: Impressionism, serialism, atonality, neo-classicism, jazz, the avant-garde, et cetera ad libitum. So, we wonder, whence such diversity?

Doubtless, one of the most important factors for the power-variety in 20th century style was the inertia of free expression inherited from the Romantic Age. Perfectly placed within that timely milieu was a young Russian iconoclast named Igor Stravinsky. After devoted study with Rimsky-Korsakov, at age 28 Stravinsky made a grande jeté onto the world stage in 1910 with his stunning ballet score, Firebird. The work was commissioned by the great Russian impresario, Serge Diaghilev, the director of the prestigious Ballets Russes in Paris. As an encore, cued by Diaghilev, Stravinsky turned out Petroushka in 1911, and The Rite of Spring in 1912. The latter turned the world on its symphonic ear at the first performance on May 29, 1913 in Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteux. Without question, the storied premiere is the most famous in all of music.

The well-known account of the near-riot which took place in the theater during the premiere was highlighted in Stravinsky’s memoirs:

As for the performance (choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky), I left the auditorium at the first bars of the prelude, which had at once evoked derisive laughter. I was disgusted. These demonstrations, at first isolated, soon became general, provoking counter-demonstrations and very quickly developing into a terrific uproar. During the whole performance I was at Nijinsky’s side in the wings. The poor dancers could hear nothing by reason of the row in the auditorium. Diaghilev kept ordering the electricians to turn the lights on or off, hoping to stop the noise.

Part of the reason for the turmoil was that audiences expected a different kind of Russian ballet – like Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty

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– a simple storyline, beautiful melody, lush orchestration. But in Le Sacre du printemps they were served up an order of pagan verismo: tunes without tonality, harmonies that shivered with dissonance, chord progressions which had no key center, rhythms that wouldn’t keep time, accents that seemed pathological. One might say that what the Parisian audience heard that night was the world’s greatest example of “hard rock” – 60 years before its time..!

About his conception of Le Sacre Stravinsky wrote:“I had a fleeting vision of a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watch a young girl dance herself to death. They sacrifice her to propitiate the god of spring.”

The composer added a scene-by-scene digest:

Part I: Adoration of the EarthIntroduction: Before the curtain rises I have given to the orchestra alone the idea of a profound mystic sensation which comes to all things at the hour when nature seeks to renew its various forms of life; a vague discord which affects all at puberty.

Augurs of Spring: An old, old woman teaches the secrets of nature to her young sons.

Dance of the Young Girls: Young girls come down to the river and form a circle, mixing with the boys.

Ritual of Abduction: The girls and boys merge; but in their rhythm one feels a strain to divide into new groups on the right and left.

Spring Rounds: A new form has been born, a new synthesis of rhythms.

Ritual of the Rival Tribes: They fight and play in a struggle of brute force.

Procession of the Sage: The clan’s oldest man arrives as a great fear surges through the tribe.

The Sage: Prostrate, the Sage blesses the earth.

Dance of the Earth: With covered heads the tribe runs and leaps in spiraled formations, renewed with the energy of nature.

Part II: The SacrificeIntroduction: The second scene opens with quiet and obscure play among the girls.

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Mysterious Circles of the Young Girls: Here the music is based on a mysterious song for the dance of the young girls. They mark where the Chosen One will be be consecrated to the new Spring.

Glorification of the Chosen One: The girls dance a ritual of glorification around the Chosen One to be sacrificed.

Evocation of the Ancestors: The purification of the soul with an appeal to the spirits of the dead.

Ritual of the Ancestors: In solemn procession around the Chosen One.

Sacrificial Dance: The Chosen One begins her sacrificial dance. As she is about to die the Ancestors close in on her like rapacious monsters and seize her before she hits the ground. They raise her towards the heavens.

Stravinsky provided little specific commentary about the music of Le Sacre, believing that the graphic score spoke best for itself. However, he did identify the tantalizing melody heard in the high register of the solo bassoon at the very opening of the work – a folk tune from the ancient lore of Lithuania. From that point onward the music progresses with a relentless, demonic energy towards the ultimate, frenzied moment of the sacrifice. Along the way we are balmed and buffeted with an extravagance of symphonic color: sensuous and shrewd woodwinds, beguiling then biting brass, primeval percussion, and strings in a phantasmagoria of texture and color – tender here, horrid there, impromptu at every moment.

Events of 1912 (Le Sacre du printemps is composed)- Census bureau places Michigan first in automobile manufacture- Livingstone Channel in lower Detroit River opened; cost $10M- Titanic sinks in North Atlantic- New Mexico and Arizona admitted to the Union- Cellophane perfected in Switzerland- Heart attack diagnosed for first time- Rice University founded in Texas- SOS adapted as Morse code alert (Signal of Safety)- First effective high-vacuum tube invented- The Violin painted by Picasso- Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé is premiered in Paris- Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 is premiered- First supermarkets open in California

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Thank You to our Sponsor, Ray and Eleanor Cross Foundation

The Ray and Eleanor Cross Foundation was established in 1998 to create a proud legacy to Ann Arbor’s vibrant culture by providing ongoing financial support for a select group of local organizations, including the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to sponsoring many A2SO concerts over the years, the Cross Foundation underwrote the commissioning of a brief, frolicsome orchestral work intended to encourage all audience members to fulfill their roles as concert-goers by leaving the sound-making to our musicians while they are performing. Elizabeth Kelly of Rochester, New York was the winner of the national young composer competition to create such a piece. Her Stop, Drop and Listen received its premiere performance at the A2SO’s “Carnival of the Animals” Family Concert in March 2008.

Tonight’s concert extends the sustained support rendered by Ray and Eleanor during their lifetimes and by their foundation in recent years – a tradition that promises to continue for as long as our Orchestra’s marvelous music entertains, delights, and nourishes our special community.

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A2SO Chamber Recital SeriesWe personally invite you to enjoy the A2SO Chamber Recital Series, delightful recital-concerts offered through your Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy top-quality professional music at an affordable price, midday time and convenient location. The A2SO thanks CFI Group for their continued support.

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Single Tickets $10 Series Tickets $45 Sponsored by:

October 4 * November 1 * January 17 * March 14 * April 18

1:00 p.m. dessert reception & 1:30 p.m. concert Jewish Comunity Center of Greater Ann Arbor

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Orchestra for September 21Violin IAaron Berofsky, Concertmaster Stephen B. Shipps Concertmaster

ChairKathryn Votapek, Associate

Concertmaster Straka-Funk Associate Concertmaster Chair Honoring

Kathryn VotapekKaren Donato Ruth Merigian and Albert A. Adams

ChairLinda Etter Linda Etter Violin ChairJenny Wan Sarah and Jack Adelson Violin

ChairJudy BlankKen DavisTimothy SteevesDaniel StachyraDavid OrmaiEmily BarkakatiJennifer Berg

Violin IIBarbara Sturgis-Everett* The A 2 Principal Second Violin

Chair Honoring Anne Gates and Annie & Sally Rudisill

David Lamse Brian K. Etter Memorial Violin

ChairKatie Rowan Kim, Darlene and Taylor Eagle

Violin Chair Cyril Zilka Sharon Meyers-BourlandPriscilla Johnson Priscilla Johnson Violin ChairJudith Teasdle

Denice TurckGenevieve MichelettiSita Yetasook

ViolaScott Woolweaver* Tim and Leah Adams Principal

Viola ChairBarbara ZmichJanine BradburyAmy PiklerDaniel PlonkaMelissa KnechtSela Constan-WahlGwendolyn Miller Seal

CelloDaniel Thomas* Sundelson Endowed Principal

Cello ChairEric Amidon Marijean Quigley-Young Cello

ChairSabrina Lackey Rita and James H. White Cello

ChairNancy ChaklosAlicia RoweBrandon CotaKaren WingertAndrea Yun

BassGregg Emerson Powell*Erin Zurbuchen The EZ ChairJon Luebke A2SO Board Emerita ChairBetsy SoukupFrederick Dapprich Jed Fritzemeier* Principal

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FlutePenelope Fischer* Rachel and Arie Lipsky Principal

Flute Chair Deborah Rebeck Ash D. Brad Dyke Section Flute ChairRachel LopezBrandy HudelsonScott Graddy

OboeTimothy Michling* Gilbert Omenn Principal Oboe

ChairNermis Mieses Bill and Jan Maxbauer Oboe ChairKaycee Ware ThomasLiz Spector CallahanGeoffrey Johnson

ClarinetBrian Bowman* Jim and Millie Irwin Endowed

Principal Clarinet ChairChad Burrow Amy and Jim Byrne Clarinet ChairJ. William KingSpencer PrewittElliott Ross

BassoonEric Varner* E. Daniel Long Principal Bassoon

ChairYeh-Chi Wang William and Betty Knapp Section

Bassoon ChairStephanie KonchelTimothy AbbottJames Onstott

HornAndrew Pelletier*Bernice Schwartz Katie Kusterer Taylor French Horn

ChairKurt CiviletteMelanie HellickCarrie Banfield-TaplinAnthony CleetonDavid DennistonCeleste McClellanBenjamin Bacni

TrumpetMike McGowan* David S. Evans III Principal

Trumpet ChairDerek Lockhart Lisa Marie Tubbs Trumpet ChairBecky Gawron Froehlich Family Trumpet Chair John PowlisonMitchell WechslerGail Robertson

TromboneDonald Babcock*Scott Hartley Mark and Susan Orringer Family

Trombone Chair Greg Lanzi

TubaFritz Kaenzig* Charles J. Gabrion Principal Tuba

ChairPhillip Bloomer

TimpaniJames Lancioni* A. Michael and Remedios Montalbo

Young Principal Timpani ChairEric Baldwin

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Spotlight On Our Chair Sponsors

PercussionJohn Dorsey* Abraham Weiser Principal

Percussion ChairLynn Koch John Dale Percussion ChairChuck RicottaCary Kocher

HarpMargot Box*

PianoKathryn Goodson* Cynthia Greenspan Keyboard

Chair

LibrarianSarah Ruddy

Operations ManagerRebecca LaDuca

E a c h o f o u r a n n u a l a n d endowment chair sponsors has his or her own story to share about their connection to the music, the A2SO and this unique giving program. A2SO Executive Director Mary Steffek Blaske spoke with Jo-Ann Socha, former A2SO Board Member and longtime subscriber, about her connections to the music.

MSB: What are your earliest musical memories? What music did you hear while growing up?

JS: My grandfather, Elias Richardson, played the fiddle and performed with a local band playing popular music of that era.

MSB: Did you play any instruments as a child? Do you play or sing presently?

JS: I took piano lessons with little or no promise except that when my daughter studied piano using the Suzuki method, I was able to assist as the home teacher.

MSB: What music moves you? Do you have an all-time favorite piece(s)?

JS: Many types of music resonate with me – from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s theme song, Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head, to Bach’s Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

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MSB: How did you originally become involved with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra?

JS: Friends were on the Board and invited me to a concert in the ’70s and before you know it, another Board Member invited me to become a Board Member which was a terrific experience.

MSB: What inspired you to join the Musician Chair Sponsorship program?

JS: Supporting the arts has always been important to me and joining the Musician Chair Sponsorship program was another avenue with which to commit.

MSB: Does your chair sponsorship enhance your enjoyment of A2SO concerts?

JS: I’d enjoy our fabulous concerts regardless of sponsorship, but it does give me a feeling of satisfaction in knowing that I’ve done just a little something more other than just buy a ticket.

MSB: As a Chair Sponsor, what would you say to someone considering sponsoring a chair for the first time?

JS: Just do it! You’ll have an opportunity to meet and bond with other Chair Sponsors as well as meet members of the orchestra up close and personal. It’s very special.

Please join Jo-Ann in supporting the artistry that is your A2SO. Take your seat on stage by becoming a Chair Sponsor this season. For more information about this program and its benefits to you, please contact Mary at (734) 994-4801.

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Anne and Paul GlendonConcertmaster,Aaron Berofsky

Leah and Tim AdamsViola Principal,Kathleen Grimes

Randy and Sally RudisillSecond Violin Principal,Barbara Sturgis-Everett

Millie and Jim IrwinEndowed Clarinet Principal,Brian Bowman

Charlotte SundelsonEndowed Cello Principal,Sarah Cleveland

The Musician Chair Sponsorship Program for A2SO’s talented musicians and to build

Spotlight On

Roy and Susan MuirTrumpet Principal, William Campbell

Gil Omenn and Martha Darling, Oboe Principal,Timothy Michling

Bob and Julie GatesSecond Violin Principal,Barbara Sturgis-Everett

Scott Westerman, Brigitte and Paul Maassen Bassoon Principal, Nate Zeisler

Rachel and Arie LipskyFlute Principal,Penelope Fischer

Janet and Norm AnkersAssistant Concertmaster

Eric Straka and Sylvia Funkwith Arie LipskyAssociate Concertmaster

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Thomas H. and Mary Steffek BlaskeTuba Principal, Fritz Kaenzig

A. Michael and Remedios Montalbo YoungTimpani Principal, James Lancioni

J. Lawrence Henkel and Jacqueline StearnsViolin Section, Linda Etter

William Nolting and Donna ParmeleeViolin Section, Linda Etter

Rod and Robin LittleViolin Section,David Lamse

Darlene, Taylor and Kim EagleViolin Section, Katie Rowan

Howard Ando and Jane WilkinsonViolin Section, Linda Etter

Scott and the late Marcy Westerman Cello Section,Eric Amidon & MJ Quigley-Young

is a leadership gift program created to help provide competitive salariespersonal relationships between the Symphony and its audience members.

Our Chair Sponsors

Muriel and Daniel ConversePercussion Principal,John Dorsey

Betty OverbergerViolin Section,Priscilla Johnson

Nancy Staub and Jack WhiteCello Section,Eric Amidon

Lori and Jeff ZupanKeyboard Principal,Kathryn Goodson

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Join your fellow music lovers in supporting the artistry of the A2SO, and take your seat “on stage” by becoming a Musician Chair Sponsor. For more information about this program and its benefits to you , your A 2SO and your community, contact Mary at (734) 994-4801.

William and Betty KnappBassoon Section,Yeh-Chi Wang

D. Brad DykeFlute Section,Lori Newman

Don and Carol KustererHorn Section

Carmen and Harry CrossPercussion Section,Dan DeSena

Amy and Jim ByrneClarinet Section,Elliott Ross

Jan and Bill MaxbauerOboe Section,Kristin Reynolds

Mark and Susan OrringerTrombone Section,Scott Hartley

George and Catherine Carignan Bass Section, Erin Zurbuchen

Linda TubbsTrumpet Section,Katherine Cosgrove

James, Christine and MaxFroehlichTrumpet Section

Jody Tull de Salis and Jo-Ann SochaBass Section

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Arie Lipsky, ConductorJulie Albers, Cello

Robert Albritton, Guest Conductor/Pursuit of the Podium Winner

Program

October 19, 2013 Michigan Theater

“Les Toréadors” from Carmen ..............................................Georges BizetRobert Albritton, Celebrity Guest Conductor

Two Portraits, Op. 5 ............................................................................. Béla Bartók Ideal: Andante Grotesque: Presto

Featuring Aaron Berofsky, Violin

Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 125 ..........................................................Sergey Prokofiev Andante Allegro giusto Andante con moto

Julie Albers, CelloThe music for tonight’s performance is sponsored by Phyllis and David Herzig in appreciation of the joy provided by the Ann Arbor Symphony.

Intermission

Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 .............................. Antonin Dvorák Allegro maestoso Scherzo: Vivace Poco adagio Finale: Allegro The music for tonight’s performance is “dedicated to my

amazing daughter, Jessica Socha, from Mom.”

Shar Music has sponsored the purchase of tonight’s music for our permanent library collection.

Ms. Albers will be signing her CD in the lobby after tonight’s performance.

Tonight’s concert is dedicated to two champions of the A2SO who died this summer, Hazel P. Proctor and

David Eduardo Schteingart.

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Program Notes sponsored by by Edward Yadzinsky

© Copyright 2013 by Edward Yadzinsky

“Les Toréadors” from CarmenGeorges BizetBorn October 25, 1838; Paris, FranceDied June 3, 1875; Bougival, France

Carmen is an opera set in four acts, altogether imbued with simple beauty, love, betrayal, jealousy, and finally – a crime of passion; Latin verismo to the max. The libretto, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, is based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on March 3, 1875 and was not particularly successful. Its initial run extended to 36 performances, before the conclusion of which Bizet died suddenly. Today, Carmen is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.

The opera, written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue, tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the captivating Gypsy Carmen. Don José abandons his childhood sweetheart, a beautiful and faithful señorita, and deserts from his military duties to join Carmen and her group of smugglers. He ultimately loses Carmen’s love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo. The opera ends as Don José kills Carmen in a jealous rage and falls in grief over her lifeless figure.

The “Toreador Song” from Act 2, sung by Escamillo, is among the most well-known of all operatic arias.

Events of 1875 (Carmen is composed)- C.J. Whitney’s Opera House opens in Detroit- Fred Sanders establishes his confectionery store; reputedly among

the first in the U.S. to introduce the ice cream soda- Alexander Graham Bell discovers the telephone- First electric dental drill patented- Wellesley College for Women founded- Brigham Young University founded- Boston Symphony Orchestra is founded- Kentucky Derby runs for the first time- Milk chocolate discovered

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Two Portraits, Op. 5Béla BartókBorn March 25, 1881; Nagyszentmiklós, HungaryDied September 26, 1945; New York City In 1907, not long after beginning his long tenure on the faculty of the National Academy of Music in Budapest, Bartók began work on a violin concerto for a young violinist, Stefi Geyer, for whom he held a very deep infatuation. But the stars were crossed; at least that is how it must have appeared to the young composer, who gave his completed concerto to Geyer only to learn of their imminent estrangement in 1908. The consequence was that the violinist, who never performed the work, held onto it throughout her life. The work was not published until 1959, after her passing.

Despite the difficult turn in their personal relationship, the concerto clearly meant a great deal to them both. In particular, Bartók wrote to Geyer that the opening phrase, which delineates a D major seventh chord, was in fact a Leitmotiv, i.e., it represented – to Bartók – Stefi Geyer herself and all her intriguing and beguiling beauty. He went further to say it was his musical calling card for the entire work. But after Geyer broke off their relationship, the disheartened young composer turned to his art of composition for consolation and catharsis.

Bartók began his symphonic setting of a new composition that he titled Two Portraits: Ideal and Grotesque, completed in 1908. For the first portrait Bartók recreates his heart’s ideal by simply utilizing the first movement of his concerto, with very little change. The music begins with the “Stefi theme” – like an enchanted aria, set as a cantabile oil painting of his desiderata. The evolving harmonies in the orchestral strings provide a poignant hue to the portrait overall, from dreamy and hopeful to ultimate despair on a singular B minor chord. A languid English horn echoes the mood, with exquisite tonalities in the strings, leading to full-voiced regret in the pleading brass. In turn, the “Stefi theme” is replayed in adoring variations, as the canvas draws to a close in shimmering D major.

For the second portrait, Bartók again borrows from himself, utilizing one of his bagatelles from this period. Of course, the main theme of the bagatelle was derived from the very same Geyer Leitmotiv..! Berlioz had a name for such compelling reality – in his Symphonie fantastique he describes a heartbroken musician, “He plunges into

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heavy dreams with strange visions. His beloved becomes a melody, an idée fixe (fixed idea) which he finds and hears everywhere.” And we note that Bartók's original Bagatelle, No. 13 (unlucky number..?) carries inscriptions in French which relate directly to the composer’s angst: “Elle est morte” – “Love has died.”

As for the music of Grotesque, the piece is brief but chock full of biting irony and malevolent humor in the French manner, all painted from a palette of fluorescent color. Mocking woodwinds, snarling brass and punchy percussion are brushed-in over the devil’s fiddles, including a facetious motif in the high clarinet – again as in Berlioz. Here and there the music seems on the verge to break into a diabolical waltz à la Liszt, but stays the course with profane gestures and sinister resolve clear to the final, delerious low D.

Events of 1908 (Two Portraits composed)- New Michigan State Constitution adopted- William Howard Taft elected president of U.S.- Geiger counter invented to detect radioactivity- Gyro-compass invented for sea and air navigation- General Motors founded in Michigan- Model-T Ford introduced “in any color so long as it’s black”- Christian Science Monitor established- Cubism in painting introduced by Picasso and Braque in Paris- Rachmaninoff composes Symphony No. 2- First Mother’s Day celebrated- Grand Canyon National Park opens- Muir Woods Preserve dedicated in California (redwood trees)- 75,000 die in earthquake in Sicily

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Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 125Sergey Prokofiev Born April 23, 1891; Sontsovka, UkraineDied March 5, 1953; Moscow

Completed in 1952, Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante was a latter-day upgrade of the composer's Cello Concerto of 1938. While the original setting had only luke-warm success (performed only once), the piece was resurrected by a dashing and brash young Russian virtuoso named Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007). At age 20, the already irrepresible “Slava” played it with piano for the bedazzled composer, who appreciated the gesture. But Slava was up to major mischief as he persuaded Prokofiev to collaborate on a major revision of the concerto. The pair worked on the new setting almost daily for about a month before Prokofiev realized he had an altogether new piece at hand, and titled it accordingly. While every note is by Prokofiev, the composer heartily acknowledged Slava’s inspired help in creating a virtuoso tour de force for the cello. As for the original concerto, without revision Prokofiev authorized its publication in 1951.

To open the curtain for the first movement of the Sinfonia Concertante, Prokofiev offers march-like rhythms and chords in E minor as a cryptic intro for the solo line. At once, we sense a musical choreography between the orchestra and cello. Apart from a very robust orchestration, the lyrical role for the soloist points the way through a rhapsodic tour, mixing the primary themes with a sense of improvisation. At points along the way we note the march-like motif gains a more tender assignment. Indeed, Prokofiev quotes Prokofiev in a fragment from his great ballet score of 1935, when a transfixed Romeo sees Juliet for the first time.

The second movement Allegro giusto takes flight in the virtuoso winds, scaling the horizon with breathless energy. At a point mid-way the soloist offers a poetic narrative, with harmonies worthy of a Bolshoi pas de deux, i.e., with the swain but without the swan. In fact, the moment is Impressionist in tone, quite a digression from a composer who had embraced the Soviet/Stalin requirement for non-ambiguous “Russian people” music. In turn, the sonnet-like phrases blend into a cadenza of dazzling effect, doubtless revealing the influence of Rostropovich. A retake of the opening flair leads to an impromptu call in the horn, followed by an innocent, child-like

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recitation in the cello. Subtle, quiet accents in the woodwinds take us back once again for a new version of the initial virtuosity. A brief coda closes the scene in A minor.

An E major power-chord sets the tone for the third movement, Andante con moto. But an impromptu, lovely theme in the solo line offers a hint of the variations to come, with the orchestra in tow. Along the way, Prokofiev reminds us of the march-like semblance heard at the opening of the first movement. Folk-like episodes appear, contrasted with grand orchestral effects, intermezzo episodes, and the composer’s gift for unique instrumental mixing, clear to the punchy, E major chords at the close.

Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 Antonin DvorákBorn September 8, 1841; Nelahozeves, BohemiaDied May 1, 1904; Prague, Czechoslovakia

Dvorák’s musical passport reveals extensive training in the great Viennese and German traditions, with focus on the masterworks of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Wagner. Antonin also received timely support from his friend Johannes Brahms, who was largely responsible for the young Bohemian’s introduction to publishers and impresarios. And like so many composers of his era, Dvorák was fascinated by folk music from all directions, including the Zigeuner (gypsy) regions of his native Czechoslovakia.

With regard to his creative persona, Dvorák's music is revered for its weightless beauty, highlighted by melodies which strike the heart over wistful and probing harmonies. While the composer is doubtless best known for his “New World” Symphony and the luxuriant Slavonic Dances, his orchestral catalog is a trove of zesty concertos, evocative tone poems and nine dramatic symphonies. Symphony No. 7 of 1885 enjoys a particularly high place in the concert repertoire.

The curtain opens with a solitary pitch on D, sustained in the lower strings. In a moment the full weight of D minor is upon us, and a grand orchestral scheme begins to unfold with a modest duet in the clarinets. Their cue forms the basis for much of the harmonic development which follows, then returns as a souvenir at the very end of the movement, intoned by a pair of languid horns.

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Poco adagio sets the glowing F major mood of the second movement. Listeners here and there often detect tonalities with a kinship to the later scores of Rachmaninoff, especially in the string choir, as the phrases are brushed with the luster of the Romantic era.

When Dvorák breaks into a spirited mood it invariably relates to dance, and the third movement Scherzo whirls with joy and desire on the wing. Back in D minor and in triple time, the lilting melody bounces with the grace of a furiant (zesty Czech folk dance), of which Dvorák was the greatest master. With irresistible charm the tune skips around the orchestra until a pastoral interlude captures the scene for a diversion in mood. With a trace of gypsy innuendo and rhapsodic turns of phrase, the music segues into a tantalizing detour, teasing the ear to find the way back to the glorious tune that stole us away. With an unexpected wink at Wagner, a quick stroke of the baton cues up the furiant once again, back to terra firma. Masterful!

The Finale sets out with a blustery orchestration – where all sections and players are flexed to the high-energy max. But the tone and tenor at first blush conjure a truly Eastern European identity, somber, slightly brooding yet powerful. As the itinerary develops, a musical sunshower gathers to offer a marching chorale to close the curtain in brassy D Major.

Events of 1885 (Symphony No. 7 composed)- Detroit Museum of Art incorporated- Newspaper reader complained about reckless Detroit drivers who

“bang through the streets at six miles an hour or over”- Benz builds first gasoline fueled automobile in Germany- World’s first electric trolly opens in Baltimore- Westinghouse Company established- First appendectomy performed in Davenport, Iowa- Stanford University is founded in California- Gypsy Baron by Strauss, Jr. premiered in Vienna- Science of fingerprinting established- Morton salt introduced- Rijkmuseum art museum opens in Amsterdam- Good Housekeeping magazine begins publication- Banff National Park established in Canada

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Throughout the A2SO’s 2012-2013 season, the community was involved in Pursuit of the Podium, a FUNdraiser for the A2SO’s education and outreach programs. You voted, and Robert Albritton is the winning contestant – tonight’s Celebrity Guest Conductor.

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Robert Albritton graduated from Tennessee State University in 1965 with a Bachelor in Music Education. After serving as band director in high schools in Lebanon, Tennessee and Gary, Indiana, he came to the University of Michigan for graduate studies, playing tuba in the Symphony Band under Dr. William Revelli. He completed a Masters degree in the spring of 1971 and toured Europe with the band that summer. He then went on to complete one year in the U of M doctoral program.

Albritton took a position in the Ann Arbor Public Schools in 1972, teaching first at the elementary school level, followed by directing the bands at Slauson Junior High School. His proven style and teaching methods led to the offer of Director of Bands at Pioneer High School in 1982. He was Pioneer’s longest serving Director of Bands and Music Department Chair. Under his tutelage, the bands participated annually in district festivals and consistently received the highest ratings. Under his guidance, the Pioneer Music Department received its first Grammy award in 2001.

Under his direction, the Symphony Band was chosen to perform at the 39th Annual International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago (1985), as well as the 42nd Annual (1987) and 52nd Annual (1997) Midwestern Conference in School Vocal and Instrumental Music in Ann Arbor. The Concert and Symphony Bands received top honors at music festivals in cities throughout the Eastern U.S. and Canada including Chicago, Boston, Toronto, and New York. In the spring of 2001, the Symphony Band was honored with an invitation to visit China, performing well-received concerts in Beijing and Tianjin.

Albritton resides in Ann Arbor with his wife, Sarah. As often as possible he enjoys time with his son, Robert, his daughter-in-law, Renee, and his 20-month-old grandson, Marcus, who live in Chicago. He remains active in the music field by playing his instrument locally, leading clinics and judging music festivals.

Robert L. Albritton, Jr.

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American cellist Julie Albers is recognized for her superlative artistry, her charismatic and radiant performing style, and her intense musicianship. She was born into a musical family in Longmont, Colorado and began violin studies at the age of two with her mother, switching to cello at four. She moved to Cleveland during her junior year of high school to pursue studies through the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Aaron. Ms. Albers soon was awarded the Grand Prize at the XIII International Competition for Young Musicians in Douai, France, and as a result toured France as soloist with Orchestre Symphonique de Douai.

Julie Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout North America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2001, she won Second Prize in Munich’s Internationalen Musikwettbewerbes der ARD, and was also awarded the Wilhelm-Weichsler-Musikpreis der Stadt Osnabruch. While in Germany, she recorded solo and chamber music of Kodály for the Bavarian Radio, performances that have been heard throughout Europe. In 2003, Ms. Albers was named the first Gold Medal Laureate of South Korea’s Gyeongnam International Music Competition, winning the $25,000 Grand Prize.

In North America, Ms. Albers has performed with many important orchestras and ensembles. Recent performances have included exciting debuts on the San Francisco Performances series and with the Grant Park Music Festival where she performed Penderecki’s Concerto Grosso for 3 cellos with Mr. Penderecki conducting. Past seasons have included concerto appearances with the Orchestras of Colorado, Indianapolis, San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, and Munchener Kammerorchester among others.

In addition to solo performances, Ms. Albers regularly participates in chamber music festivals around the world. 2009 marked the end of a three-year residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two. She is currently active with the Albers String Trio and the Cortona Trio. Teaching is also a very important part of Ms. Albers’ musical life. She currently is Assistant Professor and holds the Mary

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Jean and Charles Yates Cello Chair at the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Ms. Albers’ debut album with Orion Weiss includes works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann, Massenet, and Piatagorsky and is available on the Artek Label. She will be available to sign copies in the lobby following the concert. Julie Albers performs on a N.F. Vuillaume cello made in 1872 and makes her home in Atlanta with her husband, Bourbon, and their dog, Dozer.

Ms. Albers appears by arrangement with Christina Daysog Concert Artists. This is Ms. Albers third appearance with the A2SO.

Tickets at Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, and Nicola’s Books. Charge by phone: 800-745-3000.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 • 1:30 PM

THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD EARNS HER WHISTLESUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 • 1:30 PM

MADELINE AND THE BAD HATSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 • 1:30 PM

THE VERVE PIPE KIDS’ SHOWSUNDAY, MARCH 16 • 1:30 PM

THE TEACHER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON AND OTHER STORY BOOKSSUNDAY, MAY 4 • 1:30 PM

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The Kellogg Eye Center is pleased to sponsor large print program notes.

Ask your usher for a copy.

Learn more about us at: www.kellogg.umich.edu734.763.1415

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A2SO School ProgramsAll of us at the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra are passionate about educating our children and being involved in our communities. We offer a variety of programs designed for teachers and students that reach beyond the concert hall, including classroom visits and community concerts. These programs engage more than 30,000 people each year, igniting sparks of curiosity about music that lead to transforming experiences.

Youth ConcertsOpen to public, private and home schools, A2SO Youth Concerts offer a comprehensive educational experience that enriches in-school learning. Participating groups receive access to a curriculum which includes lesson plans, student worksheets and a CD of all music to be performed. The content of the concerts meets all state academic standards, lending themselves to integration with other curriculum areas, such as language arts and social studies.Co-Sponsored by Domino’s.

Classroom ConcertsSmall ensembles of Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra musicians bring the orchestra off the stage and into schools for a close-up musical experience where children are active listeners. These 30-minute performances are designed to introduce classical music and the instruments of the orchestra to students in grades K to 5.Supported by Toyota, the Buhr Foundation, Target, and the Sigurd I. and Jarmila H. Rislov Foundation.

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A2SO KinderConcerts

K inderConcerts are FREE 30-minute concerts designed especially for 2-6 year olds. M e m b e r s o f y o u r A ² S O join experts Gari Stein and Kathryn Goodson for a guided introduction to the instruments of the orchestra. Introduce even the youngest listeners to classical music by dancing a tango or waving colorful scarves with your little listeners at your local library. Check the A2SO website for the schedule.

Sponsored by Ray & Eleanor Cross Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor, Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, and David & Stephanie Pyne.

Conductor and Artist WorkshopsMaestro Arie Lipsky and visiting artists step off the stage and into the classroom, working with school orchestras to prepare for an upcoming performance or speaking with students about commitment and their life as a musician. Best for grades 5 to 12.

Instrument Petting ZoosInstrument Petting Zoos give students in grades Pre-K to 2 a chance to bow a violin, pluck a cello and play other instruments they see and hear in the orchestra. It’s a fun and educational program that teaches how vibrations become sound, and sound becomes music. Petting zoos are also held before each of our family concerts.Sponsored by NovoDynamics, Inc. Instruments courtesy of Shar.

Sectionals/Masterclasses/CoachingSymphony musicians provide group lessons on fundamental techniques and musicianship. Musicians work with students grades 5 to 12 in small groups on music chosen by their teachers, then students are given the opportunity to perform and receive feedback.

Side-by-Side ExperienceSide-by-Side Experiences offer an opportunity for student musicians grades 5 to 12 to share the stage with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Students and professionals work together to prepare for an unforgettable, shared concert experience. Each program is individually tailored to support the needs and abilities of the school orchestra.

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Thank You, A2SO VolunteersA2SO volunteers help in so many ways: ushering kids for the daytime youth concerts, helping with the Hearts for the Arts fundraiser, showing kids how to hold an instrument at an Instrument Petting Zoo, placing labels on postcards, stuffing envelopes; the list goes on. Without you, we’d be the music without the notes.

Thank you very much!

In addition to our dedicated Board of Directors listed on page 4, below is a list of volunteers during the 2012-13 season. We apologize if we missed anyone. You’re all terrifically valuable and appreciated!Tim AdamsCathy AlterLayla AnandaSagar AnupindiErica ArnoldMarty BaldwinEmily BamrickAbdullah BasirDon and Judy BaughRenee BayerKristi BegonjaHenry BeitzTom BlaskeJames BlumJudy BobrowKathy BondsKaren BourdonZoe BrierAllison Brooks-ConradMarylynn BuckoskyArno and Pat BuhrerElena CamaraScot and Jackie CannellIsabelle CardunerDennis and Evalyn CarterGrace ChalatMimi ChapmanMark CharlesMorgan ChrismanMary Kate ChurchSusan and Michael Clemmer

Zollie ColeWayne ColquittJackie ColvinSusan CopelandMary-Margaret CornishLois CrabtreeWalter CramerNancy and Jonathan CraneIna CussenGreg Czarnecki and Sue DempseyFang and Hong DaRoz DaleyJessica DasSusan DavisPat DeLamielleureJon DesenbergBecky DickeyEileen DickinsonDensu DixonKathleen DolanMary Ann DunnAmy ElliottHappy FeigelsonCamden, Kellie and Kent FelgnerCamille FigarroMeredith FinchWalter FloydArmand GarnettGlenn GatesJoyce and Steven GerberCarl Gies

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Rob GildersleeveSharon GobbelKaty GrahamMatthew GreenbaumCharlotte GrochEloisa GuerreroGabbi GuiglianoLexi and Jenny GuzielDorothy HaagBonnie HalloranLauren HalyoShirley HardenSusan HartmanMichael HauptGary and Jeannine HaydenBarbara HayesWilliam HayesJim HeadCrystal HeftAndrea HeldsingerHaley HendricksJeanne HernandezChuck and Jeanette HeschelesRalph and Haruko HickenPaula HigniteMae HinesBob and Marj HydeMartha JohnsonMike JohnsonPatricia JohnsonRoger and Judy JulieStephanie Kadel TarasAlyssa KaiserChihiro KakishimaRebecca KannerRosalie KarunasDanielle KasoffKaren KellerYi Seul KimKaz KishikawaMeija KnaflRosalie KoenigVishruta KulkarniIrene Lamanen

Julia LangeTish LehmanJanet LenardAbby Lewis-LakinDebbie LinknerDuane LockeBob LougheedFrode MaaseidvaagCheryl MakolinKelli MalottLinda MarshallDylan MarzolinoMark MauJan MaxbauerMolly MayerKristy MerettaInge MerlinOlivia MerrittBob and Carol MilsteinFrancesca MinonneMariah MitchellCharles MooreDavid MorelandJenny NathansEvelyn NeuhausKen NevinsAnna NgJohn OberdickAnne OrmandGwynne OsakiBruce OshabenDavid and Sian Owen-CruiseAl PaasKatya PalczynskiHyejin ParkKelsey ParkkonenKaren PassiakJuliana PatselasJoanne PawlickNithin PeddireddyMargaret PetersenJill PetersonCathy PhilbertBrianne Pieprzak

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Danyelle PinderMerrill PolinerScott PowellMarilyn and Ken PrestonDavid and Stephanie PyneSneha ReddyJoan RehakStephanie ResisDavid RettKris ReutterLenore and Cody RhodesPhil RhodesJill RipleyCarolyn Roberts Pat RobertsonMary RobinsonBrian RoddyMichelle RoderickMegan RodgersDevon RoeserZhen RoseKatelyn RowleyMargie RuddMary RummanJoey RussoSunita SachdevDanielle SannaMackenzie SatoEllen SauerDiane SaulterGrace SaundersLee SchechterAlyssa SchererAmanda SchoonoverEmily SchottenfelsCarolyn SchultzTim and Peg ShannonEileen ShawKaren ShillKathy and Marc SholderJenny ShubowDaniel SkibAsa SmithHannah Sparrow

Carol SpencerMichael and Ann StandoConrad StollDennis and Kay SudheimerCharley SullivanTricia SuttmanHitomi TanikawaAustin TellingTatiana ThomasAllison ThomsenKathleen ThomsonJane ThurstonJoel TiemeyerIsabeau TottererKelsey TreeceMichael TrottierLinda TubbsJohn TurckTrevor UrenoClare ValentiGloria Van AlstineJane van BoltMargie van TuylMichael WagnerAaron WardRachel WellingsTim WellmanJan WerySharon WielandNancy WiernikMarilyn and Paul WilkieAmy WilliamsKay WilliamsMary Jane WilliamsonArlene WinnGenie WolfsonBria WoodsLaura WynneDalal YassawiJasmine YousifJeff ZupanPioneer H.S. Orchestra Members Additional Michigan Theater

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Leverage Your Gift to the A2SOYour generous cash donation to the A2SO helps your Symphony to continue making beautiful music as well as offering the many wonderful programs such as the A2SO Daytime Youth Concerts and Instrument Petting Zoos. Of course, it may also allow you to take an income tax deduction for the amount of your donation, significantly reducing the actual cost to you of making the donation.

If you were to donate $1,000 in cash to the A2SO, the actual cost of that gift to you is significantly less than $1,000. For example, if you fall in the 35% Federal Income Tax rate bracket and pay Michigan income tax (4.35%), the net cost of your gift is actually $606.50 after taking the $1,000 deduction on your Federal and Michigan returns.

Suppose, though, that you have marketable stock that is currently worth $1,000 that you purchased more than a year ago for $100. If you sell the stock in order to donate cash to the A2SO, you will pay capital gains tax on the $900 of appreciation (currently 15%).

If you donate the appreciated stock to the A2SO instead of giving cash, the Symphony still receives your generous donation of $1,000. But you are better off. Here’s why. You still receive an income tax deduction for the full value of the stock, but your gift of the stock does not trigger capital gains tax on the $900 of appreciation. By avoiding the capital gains tax, the net cost of your gift is now only $470.50!

Note: This illustration assumes that you itemize income tax deductions. Also, there are limitations on the total amount of charitable donations that you can make each year. Consult your tax advisor for details.

Keep Today’s A2SO Music Continuing

Many years of planning have gone into this season of Music in the Key of A2

®. We couldn’t be more proud of the music created by this amazing resident professional orchestra. We hope today’s concert exceeds your expectations by giving your imagination flight, your heart solace, your intellect mental gymnastics and your sense of fun some time with both new and long-time friends.

I invite you to help keep today’s A2SO music continuing for future audiences. I invite you to remember your A2SO in your estate plans.

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What better way to thank your A2SO for touching your life than to make a contribution from your estate through a planned gift.

How has the A2SO has touched your life?

* With Beethoven’s breathtaking Ode to Joy?

* With the riveting A2SO CD of Paul Fetler’s music, the goose-bump excitement of Beat! Beat! Drums!?

* With the shouts from bus load after bus load of ecstatic elementary-school children screaming “Copland Rocks!” or “A2SO is COOL!” after our March Youth Concerts?

Most of you here today have a stronger-than-passing interest in supporting your A2SO. I ask you to join me in establishing a planned gift to our beloved A2SO and keep the music playing.

Leave a Lasting LegacyPlanned gifts are simple. They are your tools to make very concrete things happen. What’s more, those tools are as varied as the gamut of musical styles you will hear this season. Your trust and tax advisors can adapt any number of tools to make what you want happen: bequests, charitable trusts, charitable gift annuities, IRAs, 401Ks, life insurance policies, to name just a few. For many of us, we fear that by making planned gifts we might short-shrift our family and relatives. Truth be told, leaving a gift to charity in your will may reduce the estate tax burden on your heirs significantly. Many of us think our gift is too small and doesn’t make a difference. This couldn’t be less true – gifts small and large are critically important.

More than 80 percent of Americans contribute to nonprofits annually throughout their lifetimes. But according to Leave a Legacy, yet only around 2.8% choose to continue this support through a charitable bequest.

By making a bequest or other planned gift, you play your part in helping your A2SO entertain, educate and inspire future audiences and make an important difference in our community.

Please feel free to contact me at (734) 994-4801 to keep the A2SO music playing.

Mary Stefffek Blaske

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Thank You to Our Advertisers

Adams Street Publishing Co. C9Andrea Kotch Duda/Raymond

James & Associates, Inc 9The Ann 3Ann Arbor Cantata Singers 50 Ann Arbor City Club 71 Ann Arbor Federation of

Musicians 36Bank of Ann Arbor C8Blaske & Blaske, PLC C3Campus Inn C2Center for Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery C5Faber Piano Institute C8Found 72Glacier Hills 24Golden Limousine 71Honigman Miller Schwartz

and Cohn LLP C6IATSE Local 395 36Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss 14JPMorgan Chase Bank 1Kapnick Insurance Group 71

Kerrytown Concert House 50King’s Keyboard House 12 Michigan Radio C12Michigan Theater Foundation 42Mir’s Oriental Rugs Back coverParagon Sight and Sound C15Pierce Financial 50Pride Source Media Group C11Psarianos Violins Ltd. 29Schakolad Chocolate Factory C6Shar Music 1Sheraton Ann Arbor Hotel C10Silver Maples of Chelsea C7 Spirit Assist Hypnotherapy LLC 71TimePieces Personal

Biographies 71Tom Thompson/Flowers 11University Musical Society C13Village Corner 71Worknet Systems 72Yeo & Yeo, CPAs & Business

Consultants 72

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the advertisers in this program booklet. Their support allows us to provide this informative program booklet to all of our audience members free of charge. Please patronize our advertisers and tell them you saw their ad in our program. If you are interested in placing your ad in a future program, please contact Lori at the A2SO office at (734) 994-4801.

Cover photo courtesy Czarnecki/Dempsey.

There’s still time to subscribe to this concert season! Tonight’s ticket can be just the first of up to six concerts you enjoy as a subscriber. First-time subscribers can buy one series and get another free. Subscriber benefits (for all) include half-price tickets for your friends and free tickets for youngsters. Stop by the table at intermission or after the concert to order your tickets – or call us next week at (734) 994-4801.

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*Denotes sponsorship of $2,500 or moreContributions and pledges as of 9/10/2013

If you would like to join the Class of 2013-2014, or would like more informa-tion on the Corporate Honor Roll, please contact Mary Steffek Blaske at (734) 994-4801.

Corporate Honor RollWe salute the outstanding support of the following businesses who have made a contribution of $1,000 or more to their Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. These businesses sponsor the exciting performances you hear, as well as the innovative education programs we provide. Their partnership with the A2SO enables us to serve over 40 regional school districts with exciting teaching materials which prepare 5,000 school-age youngsters for specially designed young people’s concerts. We reach 26,000 youngsters every year with important music education programs. These businesses also provide much-needed general operating support. Many thanks for their investment in our community.

Adams Street Publishing CompanyAnn Arbor Automotive*Ann Arbor State BankAsahiKASEI Plastics North

America, Inc.*Bank of Ann Arbor*CFI Group*Comerica Bank and Charitable

Foundation*Domino’s Pizza*Edward Surovell Realtors/ How-

ard Hanna Real Estate Services

NovoDynamics, Inc.*Pride Source Media Group*Rehmann*St. Joseph Mercy Health System*SHAR MusicSlack & Davis L.L.P.State Street Area Association*TargetToyota*University of Michigan Credit

Union

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ContributionsYour financial gift helps make your A2SO’s great music happen on stage, in area classrooms, libraries and senior centers. A special thank you to the following friends who support the A2SO through Annual Fund, Artist Sponsorship, Chair Endowment, Chair Sponsorship, Concert Sponsorship, Education Programs Sponsorship, Music Sponsorship, Special Events like Hearts for the Arts and Pursuit of the Podium, and Tribute Gifts. Donors know that ticket prices cover less than half the cost of putting on a concert. We know that without support from these individuals, foundations, companies and government, we couldn’t be here tonight. Thank you!

The following is a list of patrons who contributed or pledged their support for the 2012-2013 or 2013-2014 seasons through September 10th. An asterisk (*) denotes a new donor this 2013-2014 season; + indicates donors who have rejoined our distinguished family of contributors; boldface indicates donors who have increased their support this season.

Encore Society $20,000+Ray and Eleanor Cross Foundation

Bravo Society $10,000+AsahiKASEI Plastics North

America, IncBenard L. Maas FoundationDomino’s PizzaRebecca Horvath

The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Pride Source Media Group

Maestro’s Circle $5,000+Ann Arbor AutomotiveBank of Ann ArborSt. Joseph Mercy Health SystemCFI GroupComerica Bank and Charitable

FoundationBuhr FoundationDavid and Phyllis HerzigMadeleine HimbeaultLauraine Ann HoensheidMardi Gras FundMusic Performance Trust Fund

Toyota

Bryan MuthigGil Omenn and Martha DarlingSigurd I. Rislov and Jarmila H.

Rislov Foundation+Rotary Club of Ann ArborState Street Area AssociationU-M Cardiovascular CenterU-M Comprehensive Cancer

CenterU-M Transplant Center

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Adams Street Publishing Company

James and Catherine AllenRichard and Bettye AllenCarol AmsterHoward Ando and Jane

WilkinsonAnn Arbor State BankRobert and Mary BairdPat and Barbara BarrettBradford and Lydia BatesDavid and Martha BloomRebecca S. BonnellCharles and Linda BorgsdorfDavid and Jan BrandonDale and Nancy BriggsDavid and Sharon BrooksAmy and Jim ByrneDavid and Valerie CanterGeorge and Catherine CarignanJean and Ken CaseyAnne and Howard Cooper

Harry and Carmen CrossDennis Dahlman and Patricia

GarciaGlenn and Joan DavisHeather and Stuart DombeyJohn Dryden and Diana RaimiD. Brad DykeEdward Surovell Realtors/

Howard Hanna Real Estate Services

James and Christine FroehlichMichael and Karen GodwinDietmar and Kristen HaenchenJ. Lawrence Henkel and

Jacqueline StearnsJohn Hogan and Gretchen

HeutscheRalph M. HulettBeth and Larry JordanAllyn and Sherri KantorBethany and Bill KlinkeWilliam Knapp

Rachel and Arie LipskyRod and Robin LittleBill and Jan MaxbauerRoy and Susan MuirWilliam Nolting and Donna

ParmeleeNovoDynamics, Inc.*Pfizer Foundation Matching

Gifts ProgramRehmannSally RudisillU-M Brehm Center*Scott WestermanA. Michael and Remedios

Montalbo YoungLori and Jeff Zupan

Concertmaster’s Circle $2,500+

Symphony Guild $1,000+

Tim and Leah AdamsNorm and Janet AnkersAnn and Gordon Getty

FoundationAnn Arbor Area Community

Foundation Youth FundMarolin BellefleurThomas H. and Mary Steffek

BlaskeDaniel and Muriel ConverseKim, Darlene, and Taylor EagleSylvia FunkBob and Julie GatesPaul and Anne GlendonJosé and Paloma JalifeKiwanis Club of Ann Arbor

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Don and Carol KustererAnn M. LeidyPaul and Carolyn LichterBruce LoughryJoan Lowenstein and Jonathan

TrobeBrigitte MaassenCruse W. and Virginia Patton

MossThomas P. NorrisLawrence OgdenMark and Susan OrringerElizabeth OverbergerLiza and Eran PicherskyBill and Linda PowersDavid and Stephanie PyneDuane and Katie RenkenPrue and Ami RosenthalDavid and Monica Schteingart

Jane and Edward Schulak+SHAR MusicBill and Sheila SikkengaScott and Joan SingerBrooks and Nancy SitterleyJo-Ann SochaJames and Nancy StanleyCharlotte SundelsonTargetBradley L. and Simone

Himbeault Taylor+Stan and Rusty Towers*Linda TubbsUniversity of Michigan Credit

UnionRob and Fran Wakefield+Jack White and Nancy StaubJane Wilson Coon and Rees

Midgley

Concerto Guild $500+Frank AscioneLisa and Jim BakerDaniel and Barbara BalbachDr. Emily BanderaJanice and Charles BeckHarry and Kathryn BenfordAlex and Connie BridgesJeannine and Robert BuchananHazel Proctor and Jay CarpNancy and Phil MargolisDr. and Mrs. Kyung ChoJohn Alden ClarkSherry Cogswell and Stephen

StefanacWayne and Melinda ColquittArnold and Susan CoranLois CrabtreeCharles and Janet CroneMillie DanielsonHon. and Mrs. S.J. Elden

Cheryl and Bruce ElliottJohn and Carol EmanLinda EtterCyrus and Jane FarrehiInka and David FelbeckClare M. FingerleGeorge and Kathryn FoltzMaxine and Stuart Frankel

FoundationLela J. FuesterBeverly GershowitzIrwin Goldstein and Martha

MayoBarbara GomezDoug and Carol GottliebsenJames and Marla GousseffBill and Marty GrimesCarl GuldbergDon Haefner and Cynthia

Stewart

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Robert and Mary Ann PierceAlan E. Plona and Renee

BirnbaumMitch and Erin RohdeDoug and Nancy RoosaCorliss and Dr. Jerry RosenbergMonika Sacks and Bob KunkleAnn and Thomas J. SchriberMartha R. SegerCliff and Ingrid SheldonScott SilveiraBob and Maria SimkoGerard and Colleen SpencerDr. and Mrs. Stanley StrasiusEdward and Natalie SurovellNancy J. Sweet and Lenadams

Dorris*Doris H. TerwilligerJody and Rupert Tull De SalisU-M Kellogg Eye CenterJohn and Susan WacksmuthJack and Carolyn WallaceKarl and Karen WeickDavid G. WesenbergRichard C. WilsonMarilyn and Gerald Woolfolk

Sonata Guild $250+

Concerto Guild (cont.)Richard and Deborah HendricksBrent and Ann HollenbeckRaburn Howland and Katherine

KurtzISciences, LLCGretchen and John JacksonJPMorgan Chase FoundationSharon and Jack KalbfleischYale and Joan KamisarDavid J. Kinsella and Joyce UrbaMary KriegerTom and Claudia LarsonRichard LeSueurGeorge and Linda LevyE. Daniel and Kay M. LongPhil and Sharon MacBrideIrwin and Fran MartinNelson and Catherine MeadeLee and the Late Don MeyerThe Mosaic Foundation (Of R. &

P. Heydon)Palm Palace RestaurantsRuth and Frank ParkerFrank and Bonnie PauliDr. and Mrs. Sumer Pek

Richard and Yuni AaronMr. and Mrs. Ronald AaronMichael and Suzan AlexanderVedat ArpaciMartha and Bob AuseRose Marie BarhydtProf. and Mrs. Erling Blöndal

BengtssonDebbie and Jim BeucheJohn Blankley and Maureen FoleyEdward and Linda BoveJoel Bregman and Elaine

Pomeranz

Pamela BrownBarbara Everitt BryantWalter and Nancy ByersJean W. CampbellJack and Susan CarlsonDaniel ChapmanMimi Chapman and Dietmar

WagnerAnne ChaseCheryl and Brian ClarksonConnie D’AmatoCarol DasseBeth and Mark Dixon

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Shirley Dorsey-MartinAnthony and Paula ElliottDorothy Ewald-HejnaMargaret and John FaulknerJane FergusonFerguson & Widmayer, P.C.Yi-Tsi and Albert FeuerwerkerKen and Penny FischerMarlene and Arthur FrancisLeon and Marcia FriedmanLourdes and Otto GagoBridget Gallagher and Bradley

KatzEnid GallerBeverley and Gerson GeltnerAl and Almeda GirodAnn Gottlieb Associates, Inc.Cozette GrabbAnn K. GuthrieDavid and Donna HaarzFred and Rebecca HankinJohn Hieftje and Kathryn

GoodsonKay Holsinger and Douglas C.

WoodTom and Kay HuntzickerLawrence and Ruth JonesJohn and Linda JonidesMonica and Fritz KaenzigMercy and Stephen KasleJane and Herbert KauferDonald and Suzanne KaulRobert and Gloria KerryJudy and Steve KeslerAlan and Sandra KortesojaTim and Kathy LaingTed and Wendy LawrenceJames Lee and Carmen Green-

LeeJulie M. LoftinFran Lyman

Frode and Marilyn MaaseidvaagDr. and Mrs. Duncan MagoonAtl and Claudia MartinezCarole J. MayerDeb and Bob MerionDeanna Relyea and Piotr

MichalowskiBob and Carol MilsteinThomas and Eleanor MooreZac and Rachel MooreMelinda MorrisMel and Joni MuskovitzSarah Winans Newman+Matthew Niedner and Nicole

WilderRichard and Susan NisbettArthur S. NusbaumAnthony and Theresa OpipariWarren and Carrie PhillipsDavid and Renee PinskyMary J. PrattJerry and Lorna PrescottJames and Bonnie ReeceRobert ReedStephen Rosenblum and

Rosalyn SarverProf. and Mrs. William C.

RoundsJean P. RowanJim SaalbergEmily and John SalvetteMilagros SamaniegoLarissa L. SanoHoward and Lisa SaullesC.M. and J.A. SchlandererMr. and Mrs. David ShawStephen ShippsMichael and Tina Slack, Slack &

Davis, LLPTim and Marie SlottowRadley and Sandra Smith+

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Sonata Guild (cont.)Susan M. Smith and Robert H.

GrayKatherine SpindlerMarilyn and Keith StangerSteve and Gayle StewartGina M. TabachkiArthur Tai and Joan KeiserEmanuel and Sandra TanayRichard E. and Kathryn TrimJohn and Denice TurckDr. Lynn Schachinger and Dr.

Sheryl UlinRichard and Vickie van House

Serenade Guild $100+Gerald and Gloria AbramsJudith AbramsSarah and Robert AlbrittonJohn Alden and Beth GilfordYvonne AllenGordon and Pamela AmidonNaomi André *Haig and Ema AvsharianJeffrey BarberRuth Bardenstein and Jim RollGeoff Barnes and Grant GormanDick and Elissa BenedekRodney and Joan BentzIb and Kirsten Bentzen-BilkvistSandra BermanGene and Kay BerrodinMark BertzJack Billi and Sheryl HirschWilliam Ilene BirgeHerb and Chris BlackWilliam Bolcom and Joan

MorrisMargaret and Howard Bond

George and Terre VoegeliJoe and Sandra WallsPeggy Walsh and Vince

WellmanEnid Wasserman and Michael

SivakRobert and Marina WhitmanThomas K. WilsonCharlotte A. WolfePatricia and Rodger WolffLouis E. Young, Jr. and Marijean

Quigley-YoungLineke and Erik ZuiderwegHelen Zylman and David

Seaman

Dr. and Mrs. Roger BookwalterRobert and Sharon BordeauSteve and Amanda BorgsdorfReva BornsteinJohn and Leora BowdenDavid and Maryann BowenJan and Bob BowerBrian and Evelyn BowmanRobert E. and Joyce E. BowserMike and Jeanne BradishAllison Brooks-ConradHon. Archie C. Brown and Dr.

Barbara J. LahoodIsabelle CardunerPaul and Sue CartmanShirley B. CeelyEvan Chambers and Suzanne

CaminoDr. Tzer-Ming ChenRichard and Joyce ChesbroughBernadine CimprichFredda ClishamDan and Geri Cogan

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Ken and Mary Sue ColemanDavid and Barbara CopiMary and Sterling CrandallChristopher and Marie CregarMr. and Mrs. James A. CrippenJean C. CrumpJoann CulbertsonMichael Daugherty and Yopie

PrinsAngela DavisonJohn D. DebbinkMarie DeemRolf and Ingrid DeiningerBarbara and Jack DempseySue Dempsey and Greg

CzarneckiCristian and Andreea DersidanMisha DharCarolin and MacDonald DickAndrzej and Cynthia DlugoszMolly DobsonMel and Elizabeth DrummMr. and Mrs. Jeff DuncanElsie J. DykeMary Helen EschmanEvans/Buchtel FamilyRobert Faber+Stefan S. Fajans+Harvey and Elly FalitPaul and Caroline FalonDalbert Fear and Toni AusumHappy and Louis FeigelsonCarol FinermanSusan Fisher and John WaidleySuzanne FligielNeal R. FosterBob and Terry FosterHoward P. FoxPaul and Judy FreedmanRuth P. FreedmanSally Freeman

Linda and Larry FrenchJim FreudenbergDeborah FriauffSusan L. Froelich and Richard E.

IngramMartha FrosethJerrold and Nancy FrostHarriet FusfeldGlenn and Carol GallerPriscilla GallingerChris Gardiner and Cynthia KochDavid M. GatesThomas and Barbara GelehrterKarl and Helen GiermanAnn GladwinEdward and Mona GoldmanJerry and Mary GrayDaniel and Norma GreenDr. Patricia P. GreenRobert A. GreenLinda and Richard GreeneRoger and Linda GrekinPenny and Jim GriffithLaurel GuttermanDennis and Agnes HagertyGertrude N. Hammer*Herbert S. HammondDave and Anne HarrellMargene and Greg HenryBob and Barbara HensingerNorman and Debbie HerbertWilliam Hillegas and Kathleen

BransonCarolyn and Larry HissMr. and Mrs. Charles HohmannHonigman Miller Schwartz and

Cohn LLPToni HoppingLary and Priscilla HortonDr. and Mrs. Davor HrovatHsin Hong and Sywe Jen Huang

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Serenade Guild (cont.)David HunscheTom and Ann HuntMark HusaDavid and Phyllis HustedMarj and Bob HydeDiane ImredyVirginia A. InglingEugene and Margaret IngramJaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C.Martha S. JohnsonSally and David KennedyMarc Kessler and Jennifer BurnMichael KhouryEdward and Martha KimballWilliam and Betsy KincaidDavid KlimekRonald and Rosalie KoenigChava and Raoul KopelmanBarbara KramerDavid and Martha KrehbielWilliam KringVejayan KrishnanDonald and Jeanne KunzMr. and Mrs. Dean KypkeDonald and Ruth LamphiearJames Lancioni and Susan OgdenRoger LaneAnne and Neal LauranceWilliam and Garland LewisJim and Shantel LoFiegoLen and Betty LofstromDan and Jan LongoneMalcolm Lowther and Joan StarkMartin and Jane MaehrJay and Suzanne MahlerBill and Elida MalilaMargaret Waterman Alumnae

GroupAndy and Kiki MarkovitsW. Harry Marsden

Tim and Emily MarshallBernice G. MaynardCharlotte and Harry McDonaldGriff and Pat McDonaldTim McIntyre and Lynn BaldwinRichard and Elizabeth McLearyBarbara MeadowsPeter Meek and Eva Mayer-MeekStanley and Robin MendenhallJames and Kristy MerettaWalter MetzgerBrian and Sara MeyerMicrosoft Matching Gifts

ProgramJack and Carmen MillerMyrna and Newell MillerDeanna and Jim MinerArnold and Gail MorawaTheo Morrison and Annie RoseCyril MoscowMary E. MostaghimBarbara A. MuellerMarcel MullerAndrée NaylorStephanie NewellHack and Jan NewmanGabriel and Eloisa NunezMarylen S. ObermanMr. and Mrs. Charles E. Olson, Jr.Al and Cecilia PaasRebecca PagelsMarie PanchukDon and Pat PaulsellElizabeth M. PayneDonald PelzSteven PepeBurton L. PerryEvelyn Pickard+Steve and Julie PierceRichard and Meryl PlaceJoyce Plummer

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John and Sally PollockKaren and Berislav PrimoracJohn and Nancy PrinceBernard and Lisa PurollMrs. Joan M. RaphaelUlrich and Carolyn RaschkeJoan and Bob Ravin+Stephen and Agnes ReadingMichael and Betsey ReadyMartha ReamJim and Toni ReeseDr. Rudolph E. ReichertMarc and Deborah RennerFrank and Betsy RichardsonElizabeth G. RichartThe Rowe FamilyRosemarie RowneyMichael Rucinski and Marianne

WilczakMike and Margie RuddSarah Ruddy and Michael MillerSteve and Mary Lou RudnerAmy SaldingerDianna and Norm SamuelsonElaine and Harry SargousRichard and Norma SarnsJohn and Nancy SchenkL. ScherdtLarry and Susan SchoonmakerBarbara SchreierJohn and Mary Lou SeverinEdward Shaffran+Tim and Peg ShannonScott and Nancy ShawMarshall and Marguerite

ShearerMuaiad and Aida ShihadehJean and Thomas ShopeShtein FamilySheila and Stephen ShulmanRay and Marylin Shuster

Bonita SingalCollyer and Annie SmithMichele MaddenJeff SpindlerTamar Springer and Steven

StancroffDavid and Ann StaigerMichael and Ann StandoNancy SudiaDaniel and Margaret SullivanRichard and June SwartzCarolyn and Frank TarziaGeorge and Karen TatumLouise TaylorSam and Eva TaylorJean TeiferJane and Nigel ThompsonRachel Lynn ThompsonMarilyn TryttenEvelyn Tucker, Kendall Tucker,

Ralph, Kendrah, Evan, Camille and Gabrielle Hardin

Alvan and Katharine UhleThe van AppledornsSybil and Peder van HoutenDr. Thomas G. VarbedianBrad VincentRobert Vogel and Elke M. ClarkDr. Kirsten L. WaaralaThomas and Mary WakefieldRoss WardTracey Wentz and Chuck

BlackmerRobert WestveerJulie and Jim WheatonWarren and Beth WidmayerAnn and Clayton WilhiteJames O. WilkesSarajane WinkelmanBeth and I.W. WinstenNancy and Stuart Winston

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Ruth AddisHelen and David AminoffCatherine and Austin AndersonMark AscioneCarolyn AustinBruce Baker and Genie WolfsonC.W. and Joann BakerMilt and Ruthann BakerRuth M. BarnardDorothy BellClyde and June BennettJames K. and Lynda W. BergCarolyon D. BeuhlerWilbur C. BigelowMaurice and Linda BinkowElizabeth S. BishopTimothy and Amy BlackwellBradley and Wendy BloomLloyd and Janet BloomSondra BobroffJudy BobrowKristin Bowden and Jeff SabatiniJohn and Kay BowditchJanine BradburyAmy and Jason BrodskyJohn Brundage and Harriet

ParsonsMargit BurmeisterCharles and Irene ButterSusan F. CampbellRebecca ChudacoffJanice A. Clark

Spaulding and Kathy ClarkWilliam CliffordJeff Cooper and Peggy DaubWalter CramerDeborah Dash-MooreAviva DorfmanBarb and Bob ElenbaasJudith ElkinWalter Everett and Barbara

Sturgis-EverettJames and Darlene EwaltDr. Cheryl FarmerJerome Feldstein and Linda

RodgersEleanor Feller-SussmanKaren FergusonMichael FieldLen and Pat FiskRobert and Karen FlorkaCarol and Peter Freedman-DoanIlana and Ari GafniJanice R. GeddesDouglas and Marilyn GeigerAnne and Bruno GiordaniDavid Gordon and Zoe KoosisDr. and Mrs. Franklin L. Gordon,

Jr.Whit and Svea GrayLewis and Mary GreenBarbara and David A. GrekinSusan and Milton GrossLawrence and Esta Grossman

Serenade Guild (cont.) John and Carolyn WisemanMr. and Mrs. Steve WolockBob and Pauline WomacLinda L. Wotring+Roger WykesEric and Martha Young

Yuval and Sue ZalioukSandra Zaremba and Richard

BrownBarbara Zmich and Celeste

McClellanThomas and Erin Zurbuchen

Overture Member $50+

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Joseph and Gloria GurtLorraine Gutierrez and Robert

PeyserRoger and Caroline HackettGloria HaleMerrily and William HartWilla HayesJim and Betsy HenrichsRoger Hewitt and Patti O’RorkeMillicent HigginsH. Mark and Emily HildebrandtMark and Lorna HildebrandtAlena HillKathleen HoffTimothy and Shirley HoganRobert and Claire HogikyanMark and Vicki HopperMr. and Mrs. Gary R. HortonGail F. HubbardTeresa HurwitzSaul and Eileen HymansDolores JacobsonMarilyn G. JeffsLois J. JelneckJihan JenkinsElmer and Virginia JohansenEmily KennedyLandis and Sharon KeyesMark and Janice KielbNancy KleinArnold and Jean KlugeJohn and Marcia KnappNancy KoenigSeymour and Dorine KrollBurt and Sally LamkinJohn G. LappMr. and Mrs. Anthony LaRoccaDavid and Maxine LarrouyGeorge LavoieSue LeongJonathon Levine and Noga

Morag-Levine

Jacqueline LewisJennie LiebermanIlze LiepaJeffrey Loo and Diane KautzPaul and Linda LoosMarcia and Donald MacMullanBetsy MallGinny MaturenJonathan and Wendy MaybaumMr. and Mrs. Ronald G.

McCreadyLaurie and Terry McIntyreMary and Norman McIverChie and Paul McKenneyKathy McPhersonKaren L. MedleyAllen MenloJill McDonough and Greg

MerrimanSusan and David MilneMarilyn MossmanRobert and Carol MullVirginia Murphy and David

UhlmannEugene W. NissenLynn NybellDiane O’ConnellOffice of University

Development at the U-MWalter ParryTom and Kennie PetersonJonathan PevarnekBrent PliskowDrs. Edward and Rhoda PowsnerValerie PressLesta PrestonRick and Lynne PunnettTom and Shirley RandallSusan RauschlRay and Ginny ReillyJonathan Rubin and Gretta SpierKaren Rudzinski

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Matching CompaniesJP Morgan Chase Foundation Pfizer FoundationMicrosoft Corporation

Overture Member (cont.)Colette RushDeborah R. SchildHarriet SelinBarry Shapiro and Simone

YehudaDonald and Pat SharpeJohn and Nancy ShuffleSan and Bren and Em SlomovitsRobert and Carol SpalyMary StadelCarol StandardiVirginia SteinJanice StickneyMary Pat SuttingerJeff and Stephanie TarasCarol and Jim ThiryKiri TollaksenDarcel E. TollePeter Toogood and Hanna Song

Fr. Lewis TowlerJim Toy Carol VirgneDana Virgo WeintraubRuth WadeHans H. WagnerPaul Dean and Caroline WebbJoan WeberJack and Carol WeigelAmy and Stephen WestMr. and Mrs. Peter H. WilcoxMagnus and Carrie WilsonMark and Narda WishkaSherry WolfeShirley WoodD.H. and W.C. WoodburyKevin and Judith WoodsStewart and Carolyn WorkFrank and Donna YonCatherine Zudak

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TributesCelebrate a birthday! Honor a loved one!

Welcome the new baby! Toast a deed well done!

Thank you to the following people who have recognized their loved ones and the landmark events in their lives by making a contribution to the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s Tribute Fund. Your A2SO is honored to be included in your circle of family and friends.

Celebrating Ethel Armiger’s 100th BirthdayJ. Lawrence and Jacqueline Stearns Henkel

In Memory of Nancy L. AscioneFrank J. Ascione

In Honor of Brad and Lydia Bates for their Generosity and Love of Great A2SO Music

Frode and Marilyn Maaseidvaag

In Memory of Erling Blöndal BengtssonBrigitte Maassen

Celebrating Tom Blaske’s BirthdayMary Steffek Blaske

In Honor of Tom Blaske and His Valued Work on Behalf of Her FamilyMadeleine Himbeault

In Loving Memory of Her Husband LeeMillie Danielson

To Celebrate Judy Dow Rumelhart’s 75th BirthdayHer Dear Friends, Larry and Jackie

In Honor of Kim and Darlene EagleMaxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation

Lourdes and Otto GagoStephen Rosenblum and Rosalyn Sarver

In Memory of Wally EagleThomas H. and Mary Steffek Blaske

Bob and Julie Gates

In Honor of Linda EtterAnonymous

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In Memory of Larry FergusonMichael and Tina Slack, Slack & Davis LLP

In Memory of Lela FuesterBarbara Gomez

Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. HortonLary and Priscilla HortonSusan and Jerry Riches

Office of University Development at the University of Michigan

Jim Toy

In Memory of Sherman FunkThomas H. and Mary Steffek Blaske

Amy and Jason BrodksyRuth Freedman

Ann GottliebGertrude Hammer

Teresa Hurwitz

Mary KriegerRod and Robin Little

Brigitte MaassenBill and Jan Maxbauer

Lori and Jeff Zupan

In Memory of Cynthia GreenspanLori and Jeff Zupan

With Love and Thanks to His Wife Phyllis for 50 Years of Love and Happiness

David Herzig

Celebrating the Marriage of Bob Gates and Julie (Hepler) GatesLeah and Tim Adams

Howard Ando and Jane WilkinsonTom and Mary Steffek BlaskeBeverley and Gerson GeltnerJ. Lawrence and Jacqueline

Stearns HenkelJosé and Paloma JalifeArie and Rachel Lipsky

Rod and Robin LittleBrigitte Maassen

Bill and Jan MaxbauerSally RudisillJean Teifer

Ruth and Scott WadeLori and Jeff Zupan

In Loving Memory of Robert B. Ingling: Husband, Dad, Grandpa and Friend

Barb and Bob ElenbaasVirginia Ingling

Laurie and Terry McIntyre and Family

In Loving Remembrance of Charlotte Knost Klinke – Mom and FriendThomas H. and Mary Steffek Blaske

Bethany and Bill Klinke

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In appreciation of Maestro Lipsky’s bravery in reaching Ann Arbor (for the Symphony’s November concert) in the face of a HEAVY storm (Superstorm Sandy)

and of Mary Steffek Blaske’s efficient guidance to help him do soCharlotte Sundelson

With Gratitude and Thanks to Arie Lipsky and Amit PeledAllyn and Sherri Kantor

Congratulations to Arie Lipsky on Being Named Principal Guest Conductor of the Haifa Symphony

Ann K. Guthrie

In Honor of Robin Little’s Significant Birthday and in Appreciation for the Joy Robin Brings to her Family and Friends

Rod Little

In Celebration of Duncan Magoon’s 80th Birthday, with Love fromMarilyn and children, Duncan, Cameron, Molly, Kristin Hass, Jennifer Judge and grandchildren, Finn, Cole, Hazel Magoon,

Eliza and Emily Judge

In Memory of Hazel ProctorThomas H. and Mary Steffek Blaske

Bob and Julie Gates

In Commemoration of Their Silver AnniversaryBernard and Lisa Puroll

In Memory of David Eduardo SchteingartThomas H. and Mary Steffek Blaske

Bob and Julie GatesRosalie and Ronald Koenig

Lori and Jeff Zupan

In Honor of Her Amazing Daughter, JessicaJo-Ann Socha

In Honor of Mary Steffek BlaskeCorliss and Jerry Rosenberg

In Honor of Miranda Straka’s Premier Performance with the A2SOSylvia Funk

In Honor of Charlotte SundelsonDon Haefner and Cynthia Stewart

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In Loving Memory of Joyce McMaster TheobaldAnn and Brent Hollenbeck

In Memory of Paul Tucker, Jr.Evelyn Tucker, Kendall Tucker, Ralph, Kendrah, Evan,

Camille and Gabrielle Hardin

To a Wonderful Friend, Sara VandervoortJack and Carol Weigel

In Honor of Roy and Jo Ann WetzelJack and Carol Weigel

In Memory of Ruth ZitomerBenson and Susan BarrDr. and Mrs. David BaruEli and Joanna Berger

Carol and Douglas FeldmanPeggy and Dennis FrankCarol and Ross Fridson

David and Shelley GoldbergBarbara and David A. Grekin

Shirley Z. GrekinHeather and Steve Gruenewald

Phyllis and David HerzigRonald and Rosalie Koenig

Faye and Michael KrutCooke and Lenny Lachover

Judie and Jerry LaxRod and Robin Little

Marilyn MossmanEileen and Richard PolkJohn and Nancy Prince

Ruthie and Marty SeltzerCliff and Ingrid SheldonRichard and June Swartz

Richard and Madelon WeberLynn and John White

In Honor of Lori Zupans’ 25th Anniversary with the A2SOTim and Leah Adams

Howard Ando and Jane WilkinsonThomas H. and Mary Steffek Blaske

Roger and Polly BookwalterWalter and Nancy Byers

James and Christine FroehlichRichard and Deborah Hendricks

J. Lawrence and Jacqueline Stearns Henkel

José and Paloma JalifeBrigitte Maassen

Gil Omenn and Martha DarlingCharlotte Sundelson

If you would like to make a gift to recognize loved ones and the landmark events in their lives, please send us your contribution, along with the name and address of the person you wish to honor, or call me at (734) 994-4801.

We will list your message in the program and send a personalized note acknowledging your thoughtful donation to the person/people you wish to honor.

Mary Steffek Blaske

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A&L Wine CastleTim and Leah AdamsAfternoon DelightAl DenteAncestry.comAnn Arbor Civic TheatreAnn Arbor Fire DepartmentAnn Arbor Hands-On MuseumAnn Arbor Therapeutic

Massage ClinicArbor Brewing CompanyArbor MotionThe ArkAutograph Pros, LLCAyla & Co.Bagger Dave’sVictor Banta PhotographyBar LouieBarton Hills Country ClubBaxter’s Liquor and WineJack BeattyJohn Beilein / University of

Michigan BasketballAaron Berofsky and Kathryn

VotapekBetsy’s PhotographyBlack Star FarmsTom and Mary Steffek BlaskeBodywise Therapeutic MassageBOYNEBrewed Awakenings CaféAllison Brooks-ConradBurnt Toast InnLloyd CarrChateau ChantalChelsea AntiquesChelsea Flower ShopCity Pets Veterinary Clinic

Coach Me FitCommon GrillComerica BankMary-Margaret CornishCoval Fitness & Sports

PerformanceCreekside Bar & GrillCumulus / WTKA RadioDahlmann PropertiesMartha Darling and Gil OmennCindy DeHartDessange Paris of Ann ArborDetroit Pistons / Palace of

Auburn HillsDog-O-Mat 2Heather Dombey DesignsD. Brad DykeKim and Darlene EagleThe EarleElixir Vitae Coffee and Tea English GardensJames and Christine FroehlichJim FuesterSylvia FunkBob and Julie GatesGene Butman FordGold Bond CleanersBarbara GomezGoogle / David McCannSteve Gross, Premier AuctionsChris GrapentineGreat Harvest Bread Co.Greektown CasinoScott HartleyHealth and Fitness Center

at Washtenaw Community College

Denise Held, RN

2013 Auction and Raffle Donors

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Hearts for the Arts (cont.)Debby HendricksJohn Hogan and Gretchen

HeutscheBrady Hoke / U-M FootballAnn and Brent HollenbeckHousekeeping AssociatesBetty HuChristopher A. Jablonski

Photography Paloma and José JalifeDemond Johnson / A2 Fitness

ProfessionalsBeth JordanJordan Lovell Picture FramingBill and Bethany KlinkeL. Mawby WineryLaky’s SalonLewis JewelersLily Grace CosmeticsRod and Robin LittleLogan, An American RestaurantMani OsteriaLinda MarshallLodi FarmsMGM Grand DetroitBrigitte MaassenMercy’s RestaurantMetzger’s Restaurant / Charlie

MooreTimothy Michling on behalf

of Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Musicians

Michigan Theater FoundationStephen Miller and Michael

WasilewskiMojo in the MorningMorgan & YorkVirginia MurphyNext Level VacationsGabriel Nuñez and Eloisa

Guerrero

Olive GardenPacific Rim RestaurantPaesano’sParagon Sight & SoundSumer and Mickey PekSteven and Julie PierceAlan and Renee Birnbaum PlonaJohn and Sally PollockPurple Rose Theatre Co.PutterzRPM VenturesSneha ReddyRed Hawk Bar & GrillRelax StationKris ReutterRocky Mountain Chocolate

FactoryRoger Monk’sSally RudisillRep. David E. RutledgeSaline Area PlayersSava & CompanySchakolad Chocolate FactoryKevin J. Schmidt, DDSSeva RestaurantSheraton Ann Arbor HotelSidetrack Bar and GrillDave SiefkesAlida SilvermanGreg SobranTherapeutic Massage and

Bodywork / Brian M. Truskowski

Jean TeiferTobacco RoseTravis Pointe Country ClubMichael TrottierTwo Lads WineryUniversity of Michigan Museum

of Natural HistoryUniversity of Michigan School

of Music, Theatre and Dance

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University of Michigan Survival Flight/Paul Straka

Dr. Nancy UrquiolaSophie VerhaegeVinologyWeber’s InnRon and Eileen WeiserThe West End GrillJane Wilkinson and Howard

Ando

Dr. Sarah Wilkinson, Life’s Journey Family Chiropractic

Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum

Yucatan HolidaysZap Zone Family Fun CentersZingerman’s Community of

BusinessesZulu Nyala, Trevor Shaw, OwnerLori Zupan

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Leave aLasting Legacy Make your legacy a part of the Ann Arbor Symphony

Orchestra’s future.

With planned giving you can ensure that future generations will enjoy the same feeling that

you are experiencing today.

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Planned Giving

Contact Mary Steffek Blaske(734) 994-4801 or [email protected]

or visit www.a2so.com

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