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DECEMBER 2019 | JANUARY 2020
HOLIDAY POPS
Family 4-Packs Available!
Dec 13, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre Dec 14 & 21, 2019 | 2:00 & 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
BACH IN THE BARN
MESSIAH BY CANDLELIGHT
CARMINA BURANA
PEER GYNT AND POLOVTSIAN DANCES
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Dec 19 & 20, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. | First Wayne Street U.M.C.
Mar 14, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
WITH THE FORT WAYNE BALLET
Jan 11, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Free!
Jan 15, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Arts United Center
FLYING WITH E.T. AND PETER PAN
Family 4-Packs Available!
Mar 20, 21 & 22, 2020 | Arts United Center
CONDUCTOR WORKSHOP CONCERT
Family 4-Packs Available!
Jan 19, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
BRAHMS CLARINET QUINTET
Jan 22, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Parkview Physicians Group ArtsLab Jan 26, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION WITH THE CIVIC THEATRE Mar 28, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre Mar 29, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
MOZART AND TWO PIANOS
Apr 4, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
Family 4-Packs Available!
PIRATES OF THE SEA
Apr 5, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
VALENTINA LISITSA’S LOVE STORY: PIANO THEMES FROM CINEMA’S GOLDEN AGE
SENSORY FRIENDLY CONCERT
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN PLAYS BRAHMS
BEETHOVEN’S VIOLIN
Jan 25, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Feb 1, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
WINNER CONDUCTS MOZART
Apr 19, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
Apr 25, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
BLISS
Feb 8, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | First Wayne Street U.M.C.
Apr 29, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Parkview Physicians Group ArtsLab May 3, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
LISA VROMAN & THE PURDUE VARSITY GLEE CLUB SING BROADWAY
CLUB ORCHESTRA CONCERT
RAVEL’S BOLÉRO
ABBA: THE CONCERT
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE IN CONCERT
BACH IN THE BARN
Feb 15, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Feb 22, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Feb 26 & 27, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: GERSHWIN DANCES Mar 8, 2020 | 4:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
FREIMANN QUARTET PLAYS BEETHOVEN
Mar 4, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Parkview Physicians Group ArtsLab Mar 8, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, PFW
Apr 30, 2020 | 6:00 p.m. | North Side High School
May 2, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
DECEMBER 2019 | JANUARY 2020
Wine & Dessert included!
May 8, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Joseph Decuis Farm
Closing Night! CONSTANTINE CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH
May 16, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: ACROSS THE STARS May 17, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | PFW International Ballroom
Fort Wayne’s Orchestra Never Sounded So Good!
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Mar 6, 2020 | 7:30 p.m. | Joseph Decuis Farm
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Welcome
FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR
Dear Friends: What an extraordinary fall season we have enjoyed thus far. Beginning with the opening night Tchaikovsky Spectacular, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic has already presented a stellar and interesting array of concerts, programs, and events. It was a once in a lifetime privilege to offer the Violins of Hope project in November. For two very special weeks, the Philharmonic and its partner, the Jewish Federation of Fort Wayne, led a community wide collaboration of nearly 30 organizations that paid homage to the brave musicians who endured untold hardships during the Holocaust. Having these lovingly and painstakingly restored instruments featured in dozens of local performances, including concerts for over 4,000 students, helped fulfill our mission to foster and instill a lifelong love of symphonic music through performance and education. The power of Violins of Hope and its effect on the community cannot be overestimated. Said one volunteer, “I ran into a lady this morning at the Y[MCA] and she broke down in tears describing her visit to [the] St. Francis [violin exhibition] and thanking the committee for bringing this project to Fort Wayne.” The stories of these heroic musicians and their experiences combined with transcendent music to create something unlike anything we have experienced before. As Elie Wiesel famously said, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” To the countless number of people from Fort Wayne, the region, and all those from elsewhere who came to experience Violins of Hope, we thank you for allowing us to bear witness to the people who owned and played these Strings of the Holocaust. The Holiday Season is the busiest time of the year for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. This year, we kick off the season by traveling throughout the region giving Holiday Pops performances. For many people, this is the only time they may ever hear a live symphony orchestra, so we carefully plan these concerts to be as meaningful and enjoyable as possible. Then we take our seats in the pit at Arts United Center for several performances of Fort Wayne Ballet’s Nutcracker. This long-standing partnership is one of our most cherished traditions. We round out the season with Handel’s Messiah set to candlelight at First Wayne Street Methodist Church and our own Holiday Pops Series at the glorious Embassy Theatre.
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The New Year begins with a Masterworks concert that features concertmaster Violetta Todorova. The program includes well-loved selections by Borodin and Grieg - the ‘Polovtsian Dances’ from the opera Prince Igor, and a suite from Peer Gynt. The Fort Wayne Philharmonic will join the Conductors Guild in mid January to present an International Conductor Training Workshop designed to provide eight conductors with instruction on the principles and techniques of the most celebrated conducting teacher of the twentieth century, Ilya Musin. This project is close to my heart and I encourage all of you to experience the free final concert on January 15. Associate Conductor Caleb Young has put together an engaging program for our youngest audiences, ‘Flying with E.T. and Peter Pan.’ Join Caleb and the orchestra for adventures in Neverland, indulging in every young person’s dream of flying. Music from Peter Pan, Hook, and E.T. will fill the air. Don’t forget to arrive early for free pre-concert activities starting one hour before the performance. Thank you for treasuring our Philharmonic and supporting it in so many ways. You are helping to build a bright future for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in service to this community and region. Sincerely,
Andrew Constantine Music Director
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019
Sweetwater
Pops Series
7:30 p.m. | EMBASSY THEATRE Caleb Young, conductor Doug LaBrecque, vocals Shelby Lewis, director Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, Jonathan Busarow, director Holiday Pops Chorale Members of the Philharmonic Chorus Brock Graham, actor Olivia Rang, choreographer Heather Closson, ballet dancer Rachel Jones, ballet dancer Mandie Kolkman, ballet dancer Christopher Spalding, ballroom dance choreographer Kelly Bartlett-Spalding, ballroom dancer Karen Jacobs, ballroom dancer David Willig, ballroom dancer TRAD. (Arr. Jackfert)
I Saw Three Ships
POLA/WYLE
It’s the Most Wonderful Time
BERLIN
White Christmas
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Christmas Overture
REGNEY & SHAYNE (Arr. Dragon)
Do You Hear What I Hear
STYNE/CAHN
Let It Snow
TRAD. (Arr. Dragon)
The First Noel
GRUBER (Arr. Dragon)
Silent Night
TIOMKIN
It’s a Wonderful Life Suite
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MARKS (Arr. Hayman)
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
WILLIAMS
Somewhere in my Memory
SMITH/BERNARD
Winter Wonderland
GERSHWIN
‘S Wonderful
COOTS
Santa Tap
TRAD. (Arr. Dragon)
Twelve Days of Christmas
ADAM
Holy Night
HANDEL
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
TRAD. (Arr. Stephenson)
Holly and Jolly Sing Along
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A HOLLY AND JOLLY SING-ALONG
DECK THE HALL Deck the Hall with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la, ‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la, Don we now our gay apparel Fa la la la la la, la la la, Troll the ancient Yuletide carol Fa la la la la, la la la la.
UP ON THE HOUSETOP Up on the housetop reindeer pause, Out jumps good old Santa Claus. Down through the chimney with lots of toys, All for little ones, Christmas joys! Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn’t go? Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn’t go? Up on the housetop, click, click, click, Down through the chimney with old Saint Nick.
See the blazing yule before us, Fa la la la la, la la la la Strike the harp and join the chorus, Fa la la la la, la la la la, Follow me in merry measure, Fa la la la la la, la la la, While I tell of Yuletide treasure Fa la la la la, la la la la.
JOY TO THE WORLD Joy to the world! The Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n, and heav’n, and nature sing,
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose And two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the Snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know How he came to life one day. There must have been some magic In that old silk hat they found, For when they placed it on his head, He began to dance around. Oh, Frosty the Snowman had to hurry on his way, But he waved good-bye saying “Don’t you cry, I’ll be back again some day.” Thumpety thump thump, Thumpety thump thump, Look at Frosty go. Thumpety thump thump, Thumpety thump thump, Over the hills of snow.
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Joy to the Earth! The Savior reigns; Let all their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat the sounding joy. WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year. Good tidings we bring to you and your kin; Good tidings for Christmas and a happy New Year. We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year.
DOUG LABRECQUE, VOCALS
Doug LaBrecque thrilled theatre audiences as The Phantom and Raoul in theHarold Prince production of The Phantom of the Opera. In addition, Mr. LaBrecque has starred on Broadway as Ravenal in the Hal Prince revival of Showboat, a role he also performed in Canada and Chicago. He was featured in Oscar Hammerstein’s 100th Birthday Celebration on Broadway at The Gershwin Theatre, and toured nationally with Les Miserables. Regionally, Mr. LaBrecque has performed leading roles in Candide, A Chorus Line, Man of LaMancha among many others. A graduate of University of Michigan, he was also featured in the world premiere of A Wonderful Life, written by Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo, and starred in the premiere revival of Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s Love Life. One of the most prolific concert performers of his generation, Mr. LaBrecque has been a soloist with some of the world’s finest symphony orchestras including The National Symphony, The Israel Philharmonic (Tel Aviv), The Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony, The San Francisco Symphony, among many others. In the last few years, Mr. LaBrecque’s U.S. appearances have included Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Dallas Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, The Utah Symphony and with Marvin Hamlisch both at the Ravinia Festival with The Chicago Symphony, and with The Pittsburgh Symphony. In a tribute to Richard Rodgers, Mr. LaBrecque recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the New York Pops, the same season he debuted with The Boston Pops. Alongside Jeff Tyzik, he appeared with both the St. Louis and Seattle Symphony’s for their Holiday Celebrations as well as numerous performances with The Naples Philharmonic. With Peter Nero he was featured in “Broadway Showstoppers” a live recording with Mr. Nero’s Philly Pops. Other special engagements have included singing with Carole Bayer-Sager at Feinsteins’s in Manhattan and the Cinegrill in Los Angeles, performing alongside broadway legend Jerry Herman with the Naples Philharmonic, and appearing onstage with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch(singing together!) at Hickory Hill, the legendary home of Ethel Kennedy. International engagements have included The Korean National Symphony in Seoul, Korea, The Shanghai Radio Orchestra in China, The Hong Kong Philharmonic, The Vancouver and Calgary Symphonies in Canada, The Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in Rio De Janeiro, The Jerusalem Symphony, and numerous return engagements with the Israel Philharmonic. Mr. LaBrecque recently appeared in Alba, Italy as the guest soloist in an all Bernstein concert and returned to the International Music Festival in The Czech Republic.
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SHELBY LEWIS, DIRECTOR
Shelby Lewis is an actress, educator, and director currently based in Fort Wayne. Notable performance credits include As You Like It (Rosalind), King Lear (Goneril), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Alice in Wonderland (Alice), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), and featured narrator in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Violins of Hope with the Youth Symphony Orchestra. Shelby has trained in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris in various forms of choreographic theatre and voice work. She is a resident member of two professional theatre companies, Parallel 45 Theatre and the Interlochen Shakespeare Festival, and a union member of SAG-AFTRA. Her voiceover work includes commercials, narration, animation, and several audiobooks through Audible.com. Shelby teaches as a guest artist at Interlochen Arts Academy and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and a M.A. in Theatre Education from the University of Northern Colorado. As a disability advocate for inclusion and accessibility in the arts, Shelby recently directed a deaf-friendly production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and an adaptive narrative production of A Christmas Carol, produced by Audiences Unlimited and performed with adults with disabilities. www.shelbylewisofficial.com
JONATHAN BUSAROW, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, FORT WAYNE CHILDREN’S CHOIR
Jonathan Busarow is the Executive Artistic Director of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Valparaiso University, a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from The Ohio State University, and Kodály Certification from the Kodály Institute at Capital University. Mr. Busarow also serves on the faculty of Purdue University Fort Wayne where he teaches voice and choral music education. He has also served as the interim director of choral studies at Purdue Fort Wayne and Valparaiso University. Mr. Busarow is in frequent demand as a clinician and as a tenor soloist. He has conducted at the American Choral Director’s Association National and Regional Conferences, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, the Indiana Music Educators Association Convention, and the Bach Institute at Valparaiso University. Mr. Busarow serves as the Reading Session Chair for the American Choral Directors Association Central Division Conference. In 2015, he received the Arts United Award as the Emerging Leader. In 2018, Jonathan received the Distinguished Decade Award from his alma mater, Valparaiso University. He lives in Fort Wayne with his family, Nicole, Simon, Matthias, and Timothy.
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FORT WAYNE CHILDREN’S CHOIR CONCERT CHOIR
Forest Baxter Joanna Beights Michael Bleck Josie Burton Rachel Cluts Lucy Davis Daniel Dawson Elaine Elkins Sophia Franklin Nadia Frese Gabriel Frese Mariah Grim Braylon Hansen
Lyra Miller Alex Minard Annabel North Juliana Parra Hayden Patterson Addison Rasor Lona Rodriguez Kara Rose Charlee Rothgeb Olivia Ruckel Breana Rumschlag Megan Slack Jacob Speckhard
Elizabeth Stachofsky Eva St. Peters Lena St. Peters Michael Taylor Elise Todd Maximus Vardaman Addison Wagner Rachel Wahl Maddison Weber Brooklyn Woodward
HOLIDAY POPS CHORALE
Alexia Rivera Kathryn Duncan
Jillian Hanson Isabella Harber Lillian Hildebrand Gwen Hofman Destiny Howell Katie Kieser Daphne Lane Jacob Lantz Faith Lund Mikaela Martinez Tracey Mathias Elena Matyas Cambrie Meadors
Joachim Luis Dan Richardson
and members of the Philharmonic Chorus
BROCK GRAHAM, ACTOR
Brock Graham is a Fort Wayne native who has performed in many local professional and community theatre productions. Credits include fifteen productions for the Purdue Fort Wayne Department of Theatre; Follies for the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre; HAIR, [title of show], and Carrie for Three Rivers Music Theatre; Assassins, The Glass Menagerie, and She Loves Me for Arena Dinner Theatre; and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown for Summit City Music Theatre.
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OLIVIA RANG, CHOREOGRAPHER / DANCER
Olivia received her technical training (ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, modern, musical theatre) from the Fort Wayne Ballet beginning at the age of 6 under instructors such as Karen Gibbons Brown, Tracy Tritz, and Jeremy Blanton. With the Fort Wayne Ballet, she performed in productions including The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. She spent two summers training with the Radio City Rockettes at their intensive program. In Fort Wayne, Olivia has been in many productions in the local theatre community. She has appeared in shows at The Civic Theatre (Young Frankenstein and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Arena Dinner Theatre (A Little Night Music, Assassins and Bat Boy) Three Rivers Music Theatre (Cabaret), and The University of St. Francis (Catch Me If You Can). Her choreography has been seen in The Civic Theatre’s productions of The Little Mermaid and The Wedding Gift, Three Rivers Music Theatre’s HAIR, and Arena Dinner Theatre’s Assassins and A Little Night Music. This is Olivia’s fourth year performing in the Philharmonic’s Holiday POPS, and her third year as choreographer.
CHRISTOPHER SPALDING, BALLROOM DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER
As a young man, Chris’ interests were very diverse. His athletic background and his passion for music led him naturally to dance, where he excelled in Ballet, Jazz and Tap. Chris went on to attend the prestigious Shenandoah Conservatory, where he earned a BFA in Music Theatre, graduating with high honors in 2005. His theatre career allowed him to travel the country delighting audiences in a variety of roles. He performed in numerous National Touring Casts as well as on Broadway. He eventually realized his lifelong goal of being a teacher when he moved to Chicago and began teaching ballroom full-time. As a teacher, Chris ranks among the top male teachers in the world. Despite all of his successes on the competitive floor, Chris’ true passion lies in his studio, The Fort Wayne ballroom Company, sharing his love of dance with people of all ages and experience levels. Sweetwater
Pops Series CHUCK SURACK
Founder & CEO, Sweetwater Sound, Inc. “The Fort Wayne Philharmonic is truly one of our most important assets, enhancing northeastern Indiana with hundreds of music and education programs, and making a significant contribution to economic development. All of us at Sweetwater are looking forward to an exciting season of memorable performances.”
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KELLY BARTLETT-SPALDING, BALLROOM DANCER
Kelly Bartlett-Spalding is Co-Owner and Master Instructor at The Fort Wayne Ballroom Company. Kelly, and her husband, Christopher Spalding, competed in the American Smooth Division – and are Regional Rising Star, Open Professional and Showdance Champions. They hold 3 North American Titles and are known for their creative and entertaining performances. Kelly is a three time Global Top Female Teacher in the United States. Kelly is originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where dancing became a part of her life at the age of three. She excelled in various styles including Tap, Ballet, Jazz, and Modern. Through dancing, she fell in love with teaching, choreographing, and performing. This love followed her to college where she attained a triple BA degree in Dance (Performance/Choreography emphasis), Theatre (Acting/Directing emphasis), and Journalism (Broadcast Media Studies emphasis) from Iowa State University. While at Iowa State she received numerous accolades for her dancing and choreography, however the highlight of her undergraduate studies was receiving the Irene Ryan Scholarship in 2002 from the American College Theatre Festival Association and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC. She also continued her education and pursued her MFA degree in Acting Performance from The University of Iowa. She worked with various theatre companies and dance professionals including: Riverside Theatre, Margolis Brown Movement Theatre Company, and Hurly Dancers to name a few.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2019
Sweetwater
Pops Series
2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. | EMBASSY THEATRE Caleb Young, conductor Doug LaBrecque, vocals Shelby Lewis, director Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, Jonathan Busarow, director Holiday Pops Chorale Members of the Philharmonic Chorus Brock Graham, actor Olivia Rang, choreographer Heather Closson, ballet dancer Rachel Jones, ballet dancer Mandie Kolkman, ballet dancer Christopher Spalding, ballroom dance choreographer Kelly Bartlett-Spalding, ballroom dancer Karen Jacobs, ballroom dancer David Willig, ballroom dancer TRAD. (Arr. Jackfert)
I Saw Three Ships
POLA/WYLE
It’s the Most Wonderful Time
BERLIN
White Christmas
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Christmas Overture
REGNEY & SHAYNE (Arr. Dragon)
Do You Hear What I Hear
STYNE/CAHN
Let It Snow
TRAD. (Arr. Dragon)
The First Noel
GRUBER (Arr. Dragon)
Silent Night
TIOMKIN
It’s a Wonderful Life Suite
INTERMISSION
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MARKS (Arr. Hayman)
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
WILLIAMS
Somewhere in my Memory
SMITH/BERNARD
Winter Wonderland
GERSHWIN
‘S Wonderful
COOTS
Santa Tap
TRAD. (Arr. Dragon)
Twelve Days of Christmas
ADAM
Holy Night
HANDEL
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
TRAD. (Arr. Stephenson)
Holly and Jolly Sing Along
Please refer to page 10 for the Holly and Jolly Sing Along lyrics. See artist biographies and rosters on pages 11 - 15.
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Thursday, December 19 | 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 20 | 7:30 p.m. FIRST WAYNE STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Benjamin Rivera, conductor Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus, Benjamin Rivera, director Katelyn Lee, soprano Lindsey Adams, mezzo-soprano Harold Brock, tenor Dimitri German, bass-baritone HANDEL
Messiah, HWV 56
PART ONE Overture (Sinfony) Recitative: “Comfort ye, my people” Aria: “Every valley shall be exalted” Chorus: “And the glory of the Lord” Recitative: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive” Aria: “O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion” Recitative: “For, behold” Aria: “The people that walked in darkness” Chorus: “For unto us a Child is born” Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) Recitative: “There were shepherds” Chorus: “Glory to God” Aria: “Rejoice greatly” Recitative: “Then shall the eyes of the blind” Aria: “He shall feed His flock” Chorus: “His yoke is easy”
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PART TWO Chorus: “Behold the Lamb of God” Aria: “He was despised” Chorus: “Surely He hath borne our griefs” Chorus: “And with His stripes we are healed” Chorus: “All we, like sheep, have gone astray” Recitative: “Thy rebuke hath broken His heart” Aria: “Behold, and see” Recitative: “He was cut off” Aria: “But Thou didst not leave” Chorus: “The Lord Gave the word” Aria: “How beautiful are the feet” Chorus: “Their sound is gone out” Aria: “Why do the nations so furiously rage together” Chorus: “Let us break their bonds asunder” Chorus: “Hallelujah”
PART THREE Aria: “I know that my Redeemer liveth” Chorus: “Since by man came death” Recitative: “Behold I tell you a mystery” Aria: “The trumpet shall sound” Recitative: “Then shall be brought to pass” Duet: “O death, where is thy sting?” Chorus: “But thanks be to God” Chorus: “Worthy is the Lamb”
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MESSIAH BY CANDLELIGHT DECEMBER 19 & 20, 2019
Messiah, HWV 56
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (b. 1685, Halle, Saxony (now Germany); d. 1759, London) Handel’s great oratorio Messiah has become such a beloved musical icon since its birth in 1741 that it is not at all surprising that many myths and legends have grown up around it. We have been told that Handel himself compiled its mostly Biblical text or, alternatively, that it was sent to him by a stranger; that its success transformed him overnight from a bankrupt operatic hasbeen to England’s most revered composer; that at its London premiere the king himself rose during the “Hallelujah Chorus” to express his approbation. But Messiah’s real story is much more complicated, though no less fascinating. In the early 1740s, Handel was indeed in considerable professional and financial trouble. After emigrating from Germany to England as a young man, he had enjoyed a celebrated career as the country’s leading composer of operas, mostly in Italian and enhanced by spectacular costumes and scenic effects. But by the end of the 1730s, Handel’s serious grand operas were falling out of fashion. The success of John Gay’s much simpler, English-language The Beggar’s Opera fueled a new enthusiasm for popular-style comic operas. Unable to fill London’s opera houses anymore, Handel retreated from the field and turned his genius to sacred dramas or oratorios. He was not a novice in this genre. Even while busy writing operas, Handel had composed a number of oratorios, notably Israel in Egypt and Saul. Typically, his oratorios were not very different from his operas: they told a dramatic story — in this case drawn from the Bible or other sacred literature — and their soloists played actual characters. They were performed in theaters and concert halls, not churches. But Israel in Egypt took a new musical approach in that the chorus now became
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the central character. And Messiah, while giving the soloists more to do, still emphasized the chorus for its climactic moments. Moreover, it broke with Baroque oratorio tradition in that it was a meditation on the coming of the Messiah and his promise for humanity rather than a narrative of events in his life. Handel himself did not compile the group of texts drawn from the Bible’s Old and New Testaments for Messiah. Instead, this was the work of Charles Jennens, a wealthy landowner and literary figure who was a longtime friend of the composer’s and had created texts for several other Handel oratorios. But Handel, devoutly religious as well as worldly, responded with a burst of almost miraculous creative energy to the words Jennens had prepared for him. Beginning his work on August 22, 1741, he completed the two-and-a-half-hour oratorio in just over three weeks. Besides inspiration from God, he also had a little practical assistance in this huge task: like most Baroque composers (Bach included), he did not hesitate to borrow from earlier works if they were suitable for use here. Three of the choruses in Part I — “He shall purify,” “His yoke is easy,” and even the famous “For unto us a child is born” — are based on music he’d originally composed as Italian vocal duets. Messiah was introduced to the world in Dublin, Ireland on April 13, 1743, during Holy Week (the tradition of performing it during the Christmas season is fairly recent). At the invitation of the Duke of Devonshire, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Handel had been presenting concerts of his works there since the previous November and winning the kind of warm response that had been eluding him in London. On that Tuesday, Neal’s Musick Hall was packed beyond its capacity; audience members had been specifically requested to leave their swords and hoop shirts at home in order to fit more people into the hall! The Dublin audience responded with enormous enthusiasm to the new work, and another performance was quickly scheduled. But when Handel brought
Messiah to London in March 1743, attendance was disappointing and the critics unkind. A subsequent Handel oratorio, Samson, was much preferred. Much of Messiah’s failure was caused by a heated controversy that broke out in the city as to whether such a serious sacred subject ought to be presented as an “entertainment” in secular concert halls. Receiving few subsequent performances, the oratorio went back on Handel’s shelf. By 1749, when Handel was 64, the trustees of London’s Foundling Hospital invited him to present Messiah there at a charitable fundraising concert. This time the oratorio aroused no controversy, more than 1,000 people attended, and for the first time Messiah enjoyed a London triumph. From then on, annual performances during the Lenten season became a London tradition, soon spreading throughout Europe. Handel was finally acknowledged as England’s leading musical citizen, and he lived long enough — until 1759 — to be able to savor the success of the work he loved so dearly. Listening to Messiah Messiah’s heroic journey is divided into three parts. Part I revolves around the Old Testament prophecies (emphasizing the Book of Isaiah) of the Messiah’s coming and culminates with his birth as told in the Gospel of Luke. Indeed, more of Messiah’s text is drawn from the Old Testament than the New, and, apart from the Nativity story, the Gospel histories are seldom used. Thus, the emphasis falls on the broader meaning of Christ’s redemption of the human race rather than on the details of Jesus’ life. Part II meditates on human sinfulness, the Messiah’s rejection and suffering, and his sacrifice to redeem humankind; it concludes with that famous song of praise and triumph, the “Hallelujah” Chorus. Finally moving into the New Testament, Part III tells of the Messiah’s vanquishing of death and the promise of everlasting joy for the believer. Handel did not leave behind a definitive version of Messiah; instead, he reworked numbers and re-assigned arias to different voice categories depending on the soloists available for each performance. Messiah’s solo sections are divided between
recitatives, which place greater emphasis on delivery of the words, and arias, in which musical values and the showcasing of the singer’s technical prowess take precedence. The tenor’s two opening numbers are a good example: “Comfort Ye, My People” is an accompanied recitative and “Every Valley” is an aria. Perhaps the most stunning sequence in Part I is the juxtaposition of the bass soloist’s aria “The people that walked in darkness” with the beloved chorus “For unto us a child is born.” In a marvelous example of musical text painting, the bass literally wanders in a chromatically confused maze in the dark key of B minor. The “great light” for which he yearns is then joyfully revealed in G major as the chorus salutes Jesus’ birth. All the choruses, including the “Hallelujah,” demonstrate Handel’s exhilarating technique of mixing powerful homophonic or chordal utterances (“Mighty! Counselor!”) with a more intricate polyphonic style in which each voice part pursues its own elaborately decorated line (“For unto us a child is born”). The origins of the ritual of standing for the “Hallelujah Chorus” are rather misty. Scholars believe that the Prince of Wales may have stood up when he attended that historic London performance in 1749. Certainly by 1780, everyone in the audience was following King George III’s lead in rising for Handel’s mighty hymn of praise. Perhaps even exceeding “Hallelujah” in majesty and joy is the magnificent chorus “Worthy is the Lamb” that closes Part III, the shortest of the three sections but also the one most densely packed with the oratorio’s greatest sequences (the soprano’s serenely beautiful statement of faith “I Know that my Redeemer Liveth”; the bass’s hairraising proclamation of the Final Judgment, based on First Corinthians, “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” with its glorious trumpet accompaniment). “Worthy is the Lamb” itself is capped with an “Amen” Chorus on an epic scale worthy of the masterpiece it closes, unfurling in grand sweeps some of the finest, most inspired choral counterpoint this Baroque master ever devised. Notes by Janet E. Bedell copyright 2019
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KATELYN LEE, SOPRANO
Recognized by Chicago Classical Review as having a “beautifully bright and clean tone,” American soprano Katelyn Lee is making her mark in Chicago and across the United States. Katelyn has performed a variety of opera and musical theater roles with companies such as Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Haymarket Opera Company, Chicago Opera Theater, Cedar Rapids Opera, Springfield Regional Opera, and many others. At Lyric Opera of Chicago, she has understudied roles which include Doris Parker in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and the Female Narrator in Jason and the Argonauts. She was also featured in Lyric’s My Fair Lady. Additionally, Katelyn is an accomplished singer of concert repertoire. She has performed various works with orchestras including Chicago Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Music of the Baroque, Northwest Indiana Symphony, and Grant Park Symphony. She is thrilled to debut with Fort Wayne Philharmonic!
LINDSEY ADAMS, MEZZO-SOPRANO
Lindsey Adams, mezzo-soprano, has been praised for her “remarkably clear singing and perfect phrasing” (Stage and Cinema) and expressive interpretation of both early and contemporary repertoire. She performs with the Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago a cappella, the Haymarket Opera Company, Bourbon Baroque (Louisville), William Ferris Chorale and Schola Antiqua of Chicago. Ms. Adams is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire and travels frequently to offer Masterclasses in ornamentation and interpretation. Ms. Adams is the Director of Music at Mary, Seat of Wisdom in Park Ridge, IL. She lives in Chicago with her husband Carl and their children Charlie and Violet.
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HAROLD “HOSS” BROCK, TENOR
Tenor Hoss Brock is a versatile singer who has enjoyed performing as a soloist and ensemble member with many prestigious organizations, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival, and Music of the Baroque. He has appeared with the Pine Mountain Music Festival, Peninsula Music Festival, and the Grand Rapids, Lake Geneva, and Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestras. Operatic credits include the Tulsa Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Merola, Florentine, and San Francisco Opera. Hoss is a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus, and has performed several solo roles there, including Ike Skidmore in Oklahoma and the First Cockney in My Fair Lady.
DIMITRY GERMAN, BARITONE
Dimitri German is a Chicago-based baritone and graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. A frequent soloist and member of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble, The Crossing, he is featured as a soloist on their 2016 Grammy-nominated recording, Bonhoeffer, and 2019 release of Voyages. Dimitri made his Lincoln Center debut with The Crossing and early music ensemble, Quicksilver in Buxtehude’s Jesu Membra Nostri, as well as singing the role of Thomás in Lewis Spratlan’s Common Ground. More recently Dimitri appeared in the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra’s production of The Messiah and was a featured guest artist with the Peoria Area Civic Chorale. A frequent concert artist, Dimitri’s recent solo performances include the titular role in Don Giovanni(Petite Opera) Caliban in George Benjamin’s Sometime Voices (Northwestern Symphony Orchestra), Britten’s Cantata Misericordium (Valparaiso University), Haydn’s Creation (Musica Lumina Orchestra), and Bach’s Coffee Cantata (CHAI Collaborative Ensemble). Dimitri is a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Grant Park Symphony Chorus.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2019
Sweetwater
Pops Series
2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. | EMBASSY THEATRE Caleb Young, conductor Doug LaBrecque, vocals Shelby Lewis, director Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, Jonathan Busarow, director Holiday Pops Chorale Members of the Philharmonic Chorus Brock Graham, actor Olivia Rang, choreographer Heather Closson, ballet dancer Rachel Jones, ballet dancer Mandie Kolkman, ballet dancer Christopher Spalding, ballroom dance choreographer Kelly Bartlett-Spalding, ballroom dancer Karen Jacobs, ballroom dancer David Willig, ballroom dancer TRAD. (Arr. Jackfert)
I Saw Three Ships
POLA/WYLE
It’s the Most Wonderful Time
BERLIN
White Christmas
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Christmas Overture
REGNEY & SHAYNE (Arr. Dragon)
Do You Hear What I Hear
STYNE/CAHN
Let It Snow
TRAD. (Arr. Dragon)
The First Noel
GRUBER (Arr. Dragon)
Silent Night
TIOMKIN
It’s a Wonderful Life Suite
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Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
WILLIAMS
Somewhere in my Memory
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Winter Wonderland
GERSHWIN
‘S Wonderful
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Santa Tap
TRAD. (Arr. Dragon)
Twelve Days of Christmas
ADAM
Holy Night
HANDEL
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
TRAD. (Arr. Stephenson)
Holly and Jolly Sing Along
Please refer to page 10 for the Holly and Jolly Sing Along lyrics. See artist biographies and rosters on pages 11 - 15.
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PEER GYNT AND POLOVTSIAN DANCES SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2020
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7:30 p.m. | EMBASSY THEATRE Andrew Constantine, conductor Violetta Todorova, violin JANÁČEK The Village Fiddler’s Child Violetta Todorova, violin BORODIN (Arr. Glazunov)
Overture to Prince Igor
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor I. Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens II. Polovtsian Dances
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GRIEG Selections from Peer Gynt, Op. 23 At the Wedding, Prelude to Act 1 Bridal Procession The Abduction of the Bride (Ingrid’s Lament) Arabian Dance Peer Gynt’s Journey Home Solveig’s Song Morning Mood Aase’s Death Anitra’s Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King
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The Village Fiddler’s Child
LEOS JANÁCEK (b. 1854, Hukvaldy, Moravia, now Czech Republic); d. 1928, Moravská Ostrava, now Czech Republic) No other composer had a career path that matched Leos Janácek’s. Born to a poor family of musician/teachers in Moravia, he worked diligently for years as a teacher and conductor of a semi-professional choral society in Moravia’s capital, Brno. Only with the successful premiere of his opera Jenufa in Brno in 1904, when he was 50, did his stature as a composer begin to be recognized. Janácek’s career really blossomed from age 60 to his death at 74 in 1928. During that extraordinary decade and a half, he wrote his Sinfonietta, the Glagolitic Mass, and his finest operas Kát’a Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos Affair, and The House of the Dead — most of the works for which he is renowned today. Excelling as an opera composer, Janácek needed a dramatic program to inspire even his instrumental works. As he said: “I maintain that a pure musical note means nothing unless it is pinned down in life, blood, locale. Otherwise it is a worthless toy.” A man of strong passions and great sensitivity to human suffering, he always wrote to express emotional truths and — as in The Fiddler’s Child — implicit criticisms of the injustices he found in his society. The story behind this symphonic tone poem, composed in 1912, came from a poem by a fellow Czech, Svatopluk Cech. Janácek intended it to be much more than spooky tale, instead an indictment of the oppression of the poor and the heartlessness of public officials. Janácek biographer Jaroslav Vogel relates the story: “An old fiddler has died [in the village workhouse for the poor]. The village inherits all: the fiddle on the peg and the child in the cradle. An old woman is left to keep watch during the night. At midnight, she has a strange vision. The dead fiddler stands at
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the cradle luring the child by his playing to another, better world where it will neither die of hunger like its father, nor [have to] sell its soul. The old woman drives the apparition away by making the sign of the cross at the very moment when the fiddler kisses the child on the mouth. She then falls asleep. In the morning when the sheriff arrives, he finds the fiddle gone and the old woman rocking the child’s corpse.” Janácek chooses an instrument or small group of them to represent each of the characters. Solo violin portrays the old fiddler; solo oboe, the whimpering, ailing child; a sorrowful quartet of violas, the residents of the workhouse; and cellos, double basses and low brass, the officious sheriff. At the opening, the violin’s soaring yet melancholy song expresses the dying fiddler’s suffering and his yearning for a better life. Brief, harsh interruptions of his song reveal society’s indifference to his plight, while the viola quartet conveys the misery of his poor neighbors. The fiddler expires on a high, whistling harmonic note in the violin as his child wails in the oboe. While the violas plead for compassion, low strings and tuba thump into action as the sheriff enters and makes his heartless decision to leave the child in the workhouse. The music becomes hushed: it is night and all are asleep. But the oboe child is still awake in the uncanny atmosphere. In the violin’s eerie highest range, the fiddler’s ghost appears. Luring the child with promises of a happier life, he plays a sweet dance melody, which gradually grows more frenzied. At daybreak, the sheriff rushes in to discover the dead child and the missing fiddle. Nothing can be done now to ameliorate this tragedy, and the music ends in bleak sorrow. Overture and Polovtsian Dances to Prince Igor ALEXANDER BORODIN (b. 1833, St. Petersburg, Russia; d. 1887, St. Petersburg) Like several of Russia’’s leading 19th-century creators, Alexander Borodin was only a part-
time composer. His “day job” was medicine and chemistry; in fact, he achieved considerable prominence in his time for his experiments and scholarly writing. So it is not surprising that after 18 years of off-andon work on his magnum opus, the opera Prince Igor, he still had not finished the work when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1887. Borodin, along with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky, was a member of the group of nationalist composers known as the “Russian Five” or the “Mighty Handful,” who sought to create a distinctive school of Russian music, rooted in folksong and largely bypassing the methods of the reigning German symphonic style. Borodin was particularly stirred by Russia’s Asian heritage, and many of his works include melodies and scoring with an exotic oriental flavor. So when in 1869 the writer Vladimir Stassov suggested the story of the 12thcentury campaign of the Russian Prince Igor against the nomadic Asian tribe of the Polovtsi as a promising subject for an opera, Borodin happily adopted the idea. However, progress on the work was slow — maddeningly so for his fellow composers who wanted to see the opera staged. By 1875, Borodin had completed the famous Polovtsian Dances, which close Act II. Here the triumphant Polovtsian Khan Kontchak, having defeated Igor, magnanimously entertains him with a series of songs and dances performed by his young male slaves and most beautiful maidens. But the music was not orchestrated for years, and when Rimsky wanted to present the Dances in a St. Petersburg concert in early 1879, he had to work with Borodin (and another composer Anatol Liadov) in a frenzied allnight marathon to complete the scoring. The completed sheets of the score, like so much laundry, were hung up to dry on a line stretched across Rimsky’s study before being rushed off to the printer. In the opera, these dances also include choral parts, which we will not hear. The seductive slow melody (sung by a female chorus in the original), which appears twice, is well-known to us today since it became the popular song “Stranger in Paradise” in the 1953 Broadway musical Kismet, whose score is based on Borodin’s melodies. The four dances flow into each other in a dazzling succession, steadily building in intensity, speed, and excitement. Borodin never actually wrote out Prince Igor’s Overture, which we will hear before the dances. However, his pupil Alexander Glazunov had heard him play it many times — and was familiar with his scoring
intentions — enabling him to prepare it for the opera’s first performances three years after Borodin’s death. An impressive, epic piece in sonata form, it begins with a brooding slow introduction later used for Igor’s major aria in Act II, after he has been taken prisoner. The music then accelerates for melodies associated with Khan Khontchak and his people. Prominent also is a beautiful descending melody, introduced by solo horn, associated with Igor’s love for his wife, Yaroslavna.
Selections from Peer Gynt, Op. 23
EDVARD GRIEG (b. 1843, Bergen, Norway; d. 1907, Bergen) Edvard Grieg’s great-grandfather, Alexander Greig (as the family name was originally spelled), was an independent-minded Scotsman who emigrated to Norway from his native Aberdeen in the 1760s after the Scottish clans were destroyed. There he prospered as a fish merchant, and 100 years later, his great-grandson became Norway’s finest composer. In January 1874, Norway’s pre-eminent playwright, Henrik Ibsen, asked the now 30-year-old composer to compose incidental music for Ibsen’s latest drama Peer Gynt. Grieg at first hesitated — he initially declared the play “the most unmusical of all subjects” — but ultimately threw himself into the task of creating more than 20 musical numbers for the work’s theatrical premiere. Despite the fact that the two men’s creative styles were extremely different — Grieg was a Romantic master of lyrical melody while Ibsen wrote starkly uncompromising dramas with an almost contemporary view point — their joint efforts triumphed at the play’s premiere on February 24, 1876. Eventually, the composer fashioned two suites of Peer Gynt music that rivaled his Piano Concerto in popularity. With its fantastic globetrotting plot, Peer Gynt indeed lends itself very well to musical treatment. Based on a real person living in southwestern Norway in the early 19th century, Peer is no solid, hardworking Norwegian, but an unreliable yet lovable scamp who gets into plenty of trouble in his home village and then abandons his sweetheart, Solveig, to seek adventure in the wider world. Suites 1 and 2 contain eight excerpts. Though “Morning Mood” sounds like the perfect musical evocation of morning
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dawning over a Norwegian fiord, this exquisite lyrical melody actually depicts sunrise shimmering on the sands of Northern Africa at the beginning of Act IV; Peer’s sojourn in the desert is one of his many peripatetic efforts to win a fortune. After tangling with Norway’s vicious trolls, Peer decides it’s time to get out of his native land, but first he visits home for the last time. “Åsa’s Death” is the profoundly sorrowful music for the death of his adored mother. Built from a simple, poignant melody, it is scored for strings with mutes attached to veil their sound. Suite one’s third piece takes us back to Act IV’s African desert setting. Anitra is a desert beauty with whom Peer falls in love; she eventually abandons him after robbing him of all the riches he has acquired. Her seductive powers are revealed in “Anitra’s Dance,” in which pizzicato strings add to the delicacy of her alluringly feminine music. In Suite 2, we will also hear the “Arabian Dance,” performed by Anitra and her companions. Its prominent use of shrill piccolos and flutes, drums and tambourine makes use of an exotic style known as “Turkish music,” which Mozart and Beethoven also used in several of their scores. Suite 1 closes with the hypnotic “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” Further back in the story, Peer is attracted to a mysterious woman, who turns out to be the daughter of
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the King of the Trolls. He follows her to her subterranean home, where her father and a rowdy group of trolls are waiting. Beginning pianissimo in the lowest instruments, this relentless dance uses one menacing little melody to build a steady acceleration and crescendo as the trolls threaten the intruder. Suite 2 contains some lesser-known excerpts. The powerful “Abduction of the Bride — Ingrid’s Lament,” is the prelude to Act II. Visiting a village wedding, the amoral Peer is attracted to the bride and abducts her. This furious music represents Peer later berating the hapless Ingrid before abandoning her on a mountain pass. At the beginning of Act V, Peer, now a penniless old man, is finally returning to his homeland. But the North Sea throws one of its typical tempests at him, and he barely escapes with his life. “Peer Gynt’s Homecoming: Stormy Night at Sea” vividly describes the raging winds and waters. In Peer’s home village, the devoted Solveig faithfully loves Peer and has waited patiently over the decades for his return. At the play’s conclusion, they are reunited as old people near death. “Solveig’s Song,” originally scored for soprano and so characteristic of Grieg in its gentle melancholy, is a superb example of the composer’s gifts as a songwriter. Notes by Janet E. Bedell copyright 2020
VIOLETTA TODOROVA, VIOLIN
An emerging voice of her generation, Violetta Todorova has performed as a soloist with orchestras and ensembles across the USA, Russia, Europe and Asia. She is currently the Concertmaster of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and an Artist Violin professor at Taylor University. In February 2019, she won the Arts United Emerging Artist Award. She also holds top prizes from several violin competitions, including the International Competition for Young Violinists in Estonia and the All-Russian Competition for Young Violinists in Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia. Originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Violetta Todorova started playing violin at the age of five. By the time she was eleven, Todorova had performed in most major concert halls of St. Petersburg, including an engagement as soloist performing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at the S.K.K Arena. When she was twelve, Todorova was invited to the prestigious Interlochen Summer Arts Festival in Michigan, attending for six summers on full scholarship where she won the concerto competition in both the Intermediate and High School divisions. After her studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory Preparatory School, Ms. Todorova attended Interlochen Arts Academy and DePaul University School of Music in Chicago, where she earned her Bachelor (summa cum laude) and Master (with distinction) Degrees in violin
performance, studying with one of the world’s top concert violinists and pedagogues, Ilya Kaler. During her studies at DePaul, Ms. Todorova also served as an assistant concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. After graduation, Ms. Todorova held the Concertmaster position with the Illinois Symphony, was a part of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the Minnesota Orchestra. She has also been the guest concertmaster with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Chicago Arts Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Iowa, South Shore Orchestra, and Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Todorova’s musical interests extend beyond classical music to such genres as rock and jazz. Her collaboration with the owner of House Harp in Michigan was featured in the New York Times magazine and she has appeared in the role of a violinist in the pilot episode of the television series “Boss”, directed by Gus Van Sant.
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FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC AND CONDUCTORS GUILD INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTOR WORKSHOP CONCERT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020
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7:30 p.m. | ARTS UNITED CENTER Each season the Fort Wayne Philharmonic joins the Conductors Guild to present an international conductor training workshop designed to provide young conductors - from across the United States and beyond - with instruction on the principles and techniques of the most celebrated conducting teacher of the twentieth century, Ilya Musin. Over a legendary teaching career spanning 60 years, Ilya Musin’s students included Vassily Sinaisky, Valery Gergiev, Ennio Nicotra, Yuri Temirkanov, Sian Edwards, Semyon Bychkov, Andrew Constantine, Konstantin Simeonov, Victor Fedotov, Martin Brabbins and many others. The Conductor Workshop will be led by Musin protégé and internationally renowned conducting teacher, Ennio Nicotra. Also featured is Fort Wayne Philharmonic Music Director Andrew Constantine.
PERFORMANCE MADE POSSIBLE BY: Presented in conjunction with:
Sponsored by:
Ilya Musin Society
The Donald F. Wood and Darlene M. Richardson Foundation
See last season’s winner perform live!
With additional support from:
WINNER CONDUCTS MOZART February 8, 2020
7:30 p.m. | First Wayne Street U.M.C. Hyeyoun Jang, conductor Megan Shusta, horn
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IN MEMORIAM: DARLENE M. RICHARDSON February 13, 1938 – November 24, 2019
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic mourns the passing of Darlene “Dar” Smith Richardson who passed away on Sunday, November 24, 2019. Dar was a devoted friend to the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and a member of its Board of Directors. Her generous support of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Conductors Guild International Conductor Workshop and leadership in promoting youth education and engagement represent a legacy which will be felt for generations.
FREE RIDE SERVICE
Thanks to the Donald F. Wood and Darlene M. Richardson Foundation and Community Transportation Network (CTN), qualifying patrons who find it difficult to drive at nighttime or have mobility issues will be eligible for the service that will meet patrons at two locations prior to every Masterworks Series concert. Reservations are required two weeks in advance. Those interested should contact the Box Office at 260.481.0777 for more information. LOCATIONS: North Georgetown Square in the parking spaces adjacent to the sidewalk bordering E. State Blvd. 6704 E. State Blvd. | Fort Wayne, IN South Stein Mart parking lot across from Covington Plaza 6325 W. Jefferson Blvd. | Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Pick up time will be 5:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. before all Masterworks Series performances.
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LEARNING FROM PROFESSIONALS
Choral students had a once-in-a-lifetime experience singing back-up for Hugh Jackman at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The experience was made possible by our well-connected faculty and their professional experiences.
TRAVELING THE GLOBE
Encouraging our students to study abroad and traveling with them are ways we help prepare them for the future. Theatre students studied at the IUGTW International Physical Theatre Workshop in Retzhof Castle, Austria, in June.
DISCOVERING CREATIVE AVENUES
Ceramic students networked with potters from across the region at the First Annual Potters Conference held on the Purdue Fort Wayne campus.
EDUCATION WITH PURPOSE CREATE A BRILLIANT FUTURE
Every student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts is part of a vibrant arts culture— one where we strive to elevate their passion for the arts every day. These emerging artists, musicians, vocalists, actors, and directors learn, create, and flourish in this environment, preparing to go out and enhance our world.
LEARN MORE AT PFW.EDU/CVPA EA/EOU
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From community arts to economic development, we believe great performances and ideas create vibrant communities. That’s why we proudly support the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Their dedication to excellence brings joy to our hearts and business to our city.
And that is sweet music to our ears.
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FLYING WITH E.T. AND PETER PAN SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2020
STAR
Family Series
2:00 p.m. | RHINEHART MUSIC CENTER, PURDUE FORT WAYNE Caleb Young, conductor Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, Jonathan Busarow, director Shelby Lewis, narrator WILLIAMS
E.T.: Adventures on Earth
RESPIGHI
The Cuckoo from “The Birds”
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumblebee from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyries
MONTGOMERY Starburst HOWARD Peter Pan Suite Fort Wayne Children’s Choir Shelby Lewis, narrator WILLIAMS
The Flight to Neverland from “Hook”
See biography for Jonathan Busarow and Shelby Lewis on page 12, and Children’s Choir roster on page 13.
PERFORMANCE MADE POSSIBLE BY: Series sponsor:
Concert sponsor:
FREE PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES AT 1:00 P.M.
Jim & Gloria Nash,
in memory of John L. Verweire, Emel Verweire, and Wade John Verweire, Jr.
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ANDREW CONSTANTINE, MUSIC DIRECTOR
“The poise and hushed beauty of the London Philharmonic’s playing was one of the most remarkable qualities of Constantine’s direction. He has an exceptional gift for holding players and listeners on a thread of sound, drawing out the most refined textures.” Edward Greenfield.
-The Times of London
Born in the northeast of England, Andrew Constantine began his musical studies on the cello. Despite a seemingly overwhelming desire to play football (soccer) he eventually developed a passion for the instrument and classical music in general. Furthering his playing at Wells Cathedral School he also got his first sight and experience of a professional conductor; “for some reason, the wonderful Meredith Davies had decided to teach in a, albeit rather special, high school for a time. Even we callow youths realized this was worth paying attention to!” After briefly attending the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, a change of direction took him to the University of Leicester where he studied music, art history and politics. A chance discovery at an early age of a book about the great conductor John Barbirolli in his local library had instilled in him yet another passion – conducting. Later, as he began to establish his career, the conductor’s widow Evelyn Barbirolli, herself a leading musician, would become a close friend and staunch advocate of his work. His first studies were with John Carewe and Norman Del Mar in London and later with Leonard Bernstein at the SchleswigHolstein Music Festival in Germany. At the same time, he founded the Bardi Orchestra in Leicester. With this ensemble he performed throughout Europe and the UK and had his first taste and experience of conducting an enormous range of the orchestral repertoire. A British Council scholarship took Constantine to the Leningrad State Conservatory in 1991 where he studied with the legendary pedagogue Ilya Musin. He cites Musin as being the strongest influence on his conducting, both technically and philosophically. “Essentially he taught how to influence sound by first creating the image in your head and then transferring it into
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your hands. And, that extracting your own ego from the situation as much as possible is the only true way of serving the music. He was also one of the most humble and dedicated human beings I have ever met.” In turn, Musin described Andrew Constantine as, “A brilliant representative of the conducting art.” Earlier in 1991, Constantine won first prize in the Donatella Flick-Accademia Italiana Conducting Competition. This led to a series of engagements and further study at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and a year working as assistant conductor for the late Giuseppe Sinopoli. His Royal Festival Hall debut in 1992 with the London Philharmonic was met with unanimous critical acclaim and praise. The Financial Times wrote: “Definiteness of intention is a great thing, and Constantine’s shaping of the music was never short of it.” The Independent wrote: “Andrew Constantine showed a capacity Royal Festival Hall audience just what he is made of, ending his big, demanding program with an electrifying performance of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.” Described by the UK’s largest classical radio station, Classic FM, as “a Rising Star of Classical Music,” Andrew Constantine has worked throughout the UK and Europe with many leading orchestras including The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Danish Radio Orchestra. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree by the University of Leicester for his “contribution to music.” Constantine’s repertoire is incredibly broad and, while embracing the standard classics, spans symphonic works from Antheil and Bliss to Nielsen and Mahler. His affinity for both English and Russian
music has won him wide acclaim, particularly his performances of the works of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. His “Made in America” series in 2013/14 at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic included works by eight US composers, four of whom are still living, and one world premiere. In 2004, he was awarded a highly prestigious British NESTA Fellowship to further develop his international career. This was also a recognition of Constantine’s commitment to the breaking down of barriers that blur the perceptions of classical music and to bringing a refreshed approach to the concert going experience. This is a commitment that he has carried throughout his work and which continues with his advocacy for music education for all ages. “Taste is malleable; we only have to look at sport to see the most relevant analogy. It’s pretty rudimentary and not rocket science by any stretch of the imagination. The sooner you are shown the beauties of something, whether it be football or Mozart, the greater is the likelihood that you’ll develop a respect or even passion for it. It complements our general education and is vital if we want to live well-rounded lives. As performing musicians our responsibility is to not shirk away from the challenge, but to keep the flame of belief alive and be a resource and supporter of all music educators.” Another project created by Constantine, geared towards the ‘contextualizing’ of composers’ lives is, The Composer: REVEALED. In these programs the work of well-known composers is brought to life through the combination of dramatic interludes acted out between segments of chamber, instrumental and orchestral music, culminating with a complete performance of a major orchestral work. 2015 saw the debut of Tchaikovsky: REVEALED. In 2004, Andrew Constantine was invited by the great Russian maestro Yuri Temirkanov to become Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Within a year he became Associate Conductor and has enjoyed a wonderful working relationship with
the orchestra since that time. As Temirkanov has said, “He’s the real thing. A serious conductor!” In 2007, he accepted the position of music director of the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania - after the RSO considered over 300 candidates and recently helped the orchestra celebrate its 100th Anniversary as they continue to perform to capacity audiences. In addition, in 2009 he was chosen as the Music Director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Indiana from a field of more than 250 candidates. Other orchestras in the US that he has worked with include the Baltimore Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Chautauqua Festival Orchestra and Phoenix Symphony. Again, critical acclaim has been hugely positive, the press review of his Phoenix debut describing it as “the best concert in the last ten years.” Other recent engagements included concerts with the New Jersey Symphony, a return to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Filarmonica de Gran Canarias, and recordings with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
“Masterly, insightful, compelling.”
MUSIC DIRECTOR ANDREW CONSTANTINE’S NEW RECORDING FOR SALE IN THE EMBASSY THEATRE LOBBY
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CALEB YOUNG, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Caleb Young joined the Fort Wayne Philharmonic as Assistant Conductor in the fall of 2016. For the 75th Anniversary Season Young has been promoted to Associate Conductor. He serves as cover conductor to all Masterworks and other selected programs and conducts various concerts throughout the season including pops, education, family, ballet, film and other specials. Young is dedicated to attracting younger audiences to the Philharmonic, pioneering the “Music and Mixology” series. Young has conducted the Oregon Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, and the Asheville Ballet. He has assisted and covered such organizations as the Cincinnati Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Van Cliburn Competition, Atlanta Opera, Portland Symphony and the National Music Festival.
as a participant conductor in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where he performed and worked with Marin Alsop.
In 2016 Young was selected by members of the Vienna Philharmonic for the American Austrian Foundation’s (AAF) Ansbacher Conducting Fellowship Prize, which takes place during the prestigious Salzburg Festival. Young was also selected
A native of Asheville, North Carolina, Young started his musical training on piano at the age of three. He received his master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with David Effron and Arthur Fagen.
Young serves as founder and conductor of KammerMahler, a mobile chamber orchestra, founded in 2013. KammerMahler recorded and released the world premier album of Klaus Simon’s arrangement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9.
STAR
Family Series JIM MARCUCCILLI
Chairman & CEO, STAR Bank “STAR is proud to call Fort Wayne home. As the only bank headquartered in Fort Wayne, we are dedicated to making our city an ideal place to raise a family. That is why we created Family of STARS, our community involvement initiative that supports family-oriented programming. The Family Series showcases classical music to families in a fun, relaxed setting. The perfect fit for a culturally rich family experience.”
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TROY WEBDELL, DIRECTOR OF YOUTH ORCHESTRAS
American born and trained, Maestro Troy Webdell continues to enthrall audiences and connect people through the language of music. His innovative programming and balance between contemporary music, world music, and the standard orchestral repertoire has created a welcomed niche in the world of classical music. In May 2018, Webdell was selected to become the new Director of Youth Orchestras for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Under his leadership, the Youth Symphony Orchestra will travel to New York City in April 2020 and perform a featured concert in the Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. Webdell is also the founder, music director, and conductor of South Shore Orchestra, a regional professional orchestra of 70+ musicians located in Valparaiso, Indiana. The South Shore Orchestra is currently in its 15th season and has performed numerous concerts throughout the USA and China featuring national and international guest artists. Webdell’s interest in world music and culture has taken him on multiple orchestral concert tours throughout China to conduct in renown concert halls in over 40 major cities including Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Qingdao, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Xian, where his interpretations of the Chinese classical music repertoire have been received with critical acclaim. His orchestral concerts have been nationally televised and broadcast on CCTV throughout China and the USA. In 2013, Maestro Webdell conducted the world premiere and 26 performances of Max Lee’s modern interpretation of the Chinese classic opera Romance of the Western Chamber which was completely sung and spoken in Mandarin Chinese. In 2015, Maestro Webdell and the SSO performed a sold out celebration concert in Chicago’s Symphony Center for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The concert featured a 600 member Chinese chorus and SSO performing Xian Xinghai’s Yellow River Cantata, the American premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s Since We Parted, and was broadcast internationally via radio from Chicago to China.
In January 2018, Webdell was invited to conduct the inaugural concert at the opening of the new Ulanhot Grand Theatre in Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia which also featured the world premiere of Xiao He’s Long Song. Maestro Webdell has earned acclaim for his orchestral conducting in the USA, receiving outstanding musical/orchestral direction awards for staged and concert productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2001 & 2004), Jason Robert Brown’s PARADE (2005), and Mitch Leigh’s Man of La Mancha (2006). In 2015, Webdell was awarded the “Global Harmony Through Music” award from the Confucius Institute (Beijing) for his work and dedication to create cultural understanding and acceptance through music. As an educator, Webdell taught band and orchestra students for 24 years in the Crown Point Community School Corporation and Portage Township School Corporation in Indiana. His students had consistently earned Gold ratings at ISSMA contests, including the All-Music Orchestra Award for excellence in all areas of chamber, jazz, and ensemble performance. In 2017, Webdell was named the Honorary Director of Orchestral Programs for the Nanjing Qinxing Arts Academy in Nanjing which has recently become one of the largest music academies in China. Additionally, Maestro Webdell has been a collaborator in developing El Sistema based youth orchestras in the USA, interactive educational symphony concerts, and community “Unity Event” concerts featuring over 500 community chorus and orchestra musicians. In August 2019, Webdell joined the faculty of the Purdue University Fort Wayne School of Music to conduct the University and Community Orchestra.
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BENJAMIN RIVERA, CHORUS DIRECTOR
Benjamin Rivera has served as Chorus Director and regular conductor of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic since 2013, and has appeared multiple times as Guest Chorus Director of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago and Guest Music Director of Chicago a cappella. Rivera also serves as Choirmaster of Chicago’s Church of the Ascension and High Holidays Choir Director at Temple Sholom, both featuring fully professional ensembles. After completing a one-year engagement as the Associate Conductor of GRAMMYwinner The Washington Chorus, where he prepared the ensemble for performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap, Rivera joined the conducting staff of the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 2018. Rivera joins the Florentine Opera Company in the fall of 2019 as their Chorus Master, ad interim. A member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus for over twenty seasons—including twelve as bass section leader—Rivera also sings professionally with the Grant Park Chorus. He sang for many years with Chicago a cappella and other ensembles, appearing as a soloist on numerous programs, and singing on dozens of recordings.
Rivera has been on the faculty of several colleges and universities, directing choirs and teaching conducting, voice, diction, music theory, and history. In addition, he has adjudicated competitions (solo and ensemble) and led master classes and in-school residencies. Especially adept with languages, Benjamin Rivera frequently coaches German, Spanish, and Latin, among others. He holds degrees in voice and music theory from North Park University and Roosevelt University, respectively, and a DMA in choral conducting from Northwestern University. His studies have also included the German language in both Germany and Austria; conducting and African American spirituals with Rollo Dilworth; and workshops, seminars, and performances in early music.
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC CHORUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
Sarah Reynolds, President Sara Davis, Vice President Greg White, Treasurer Carrie Veit, Secretary
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BOARD MEMBERS Tom Cain Caitlin Coulter Sara Davis Joseph Foltz Katy Hobbs Sarah Reynolds
Cynthia Sabo John Sabo Sunny Stachera Carrie Veit Greg White
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
BENJAMIN RIVERA, CHORUS DIRECTOR LOUISE BONTER PODIUM SOPRANO Alyssa Anzelmo Sheila Chilcote-Collins Nicole Cocklin Nicoline Dahlgren Sara Davis Janel Fitzgerald Natasha Kersjes Katie Littlejohn Meg Moss Brenda Potter Clarissa Reis Sarah Vetter Joanna Abel Ashley Adamson Karen Campbell Elaine Cooper Kathy Dew Crystal Harter Amy Heading Katy Hobbs Carol Jackson Margo Kelly Maria Kimes (Chase) Sara Kruger Kaitlin Lamison Jane Meredith LeeAnn Miguel Rebecca Smith Mary Snow Sherrie Steiner Carrie Veit
JONATHAN EIFERT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
ALTO Nancy Archer Nancy Brown Alison Case Caitlin Coulter Cassie Daniels Lenore DeFonso Darah Herron Karen Hirschy Jody Jones Elena Parker Katie Reilly Paula Neale Rice Rita Robbins Cindy Sabo Denise Snider Cecelia Snow Frédérique Ward Mary Winters Cathryn Boys Jeri Charles Ronnie Greenberg Sandra Hellwege Joy Jolley Joanne Lukas Sharon Mankey Cheryle Phelps-Griswold Sarah Reynolds Hope Swanson Smith Sue Snyder Ann Morrison Spinney Sunny Stachera Lea Woodrum
TENOR Tom Neuer Thomas Cain Benjamin Cunningham David Eisenhauer Charles (Chuck) Goddard Sarah Kindinger David Arthur Persley John Sabo Nathan Schall Joshua Sommermeyer Greg White Matthew Bowman Eddie Foggs John T. Moore Mark Richert BASS Thomas Baker Thomas Callahan Joe Foltz Jonathan Haggis Gerrit Janssen Steve Kaduk Jacob Landi Johnathan Liechty Fred Miguel Ewing Potts Gabriel Selig David Tovey John Brennan Jon Eifert Michael F. Popp Keith Raftree David Tovey
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FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
ANDREW CONSTANTINE, MUSIC DIRECTOR
CALEB YOUNG, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
BENJAMIN RIVERA, CHORUS DIRECTOR LOUISE BONTER PODIUM
VIOLIN Violetta Todorova, Concertmaster Frank Freimann Chair
CELLO Andre Gaskins, Acting Principal Morrill Charitable Foundation Chair
Johanna Bourkova-Morunov, Associate Concertmaster Michael & Grace Mastrangelo Chair
Deborah Nitka Hicks, Assistant Principal Judith & William C. Lee Family Chair
IONE BREEDEN AUER FOUNDATION PODIUM
Timothy Tan, Assistant Concertmaster John & Julia Oldenkamp Chair Christine Chon, Principal Second Wilson Family Foundation Chair Betsy Gephart, Assistant Principal Second Eleanor & Lockwood Marine Chair Marcella Trentacosti Wayne L. Thieme Chair Michael Acosta Tomer Marcus Alexandra Tsilibes Pablo Vasquez Kristin Westover Lipeng Chen Daniel Colbert Janet Guy-Klickman Linda Kanzawa Ervin Orban Colleen Tan VIOLA Derek Reeves, Principal Debra Welter, Assistant Principal Charles & Wilda Gene Marcus Family Chair Bruce Graham Debra Graham S. Marie Heiney & Janet Myers Heiney Chair Theodore E. Chemey III Erin Kipp Erin Rafferty
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Jane Heald Elizabeth Lee David Rezits Brian Klickman Linda & Joseph D. Ruffolo Family Foundation Chair Martin Meyer BASS Adrian Mann, Principal Anita Hursh Cast Chair Honoring Adrian Mann Kevin Piekarski, Assistant Principal Giuseppe Perego Chair Brian Kuhns Andres Gil FLUTE Luke Fitzpatrick, Principal Rejean O’Rourke Chair Vivianne Bélanger Virginia R. & Richard E. Bokern Chair Hillary Feibel Mary-Beth Gnagey Chair OBOE Orion Rapp, Principal Margaret Johnson Anderson Chair Pavel Morunov Fort Wayne Philharmonic Friends’ Fellow Rikki and Leonard Goldstein Chair ENGLISH HORN Leonid Sirotkin Marilyn M. Newman Chair
CLARINET Campbell MacDonald, Principal Howard and Marilyn Steele Chair Cynthia Greider Georgia Haecker Halaby Chair BASSOON Dennis Fick, Principal Anne Devine Joan and Ronald Venderly Family Chair
BASS TROMBONE Andrew Hicks TUBA Chance Trottman-Huiet, Principal Sweetwater Sound, Chuck & Lisa Surack Chair
TIMPANI Eric Schweikert, Principal William H. Lawson Chair
Alex Laskey John D. Shoaff Chair
PERCUSSION Alison Chorn, Principal June E. Enoch Chair Kevin Kosnik North American Van Lines funded by Norfolk Southern Foundation Chair
Michael Galbraith Walter D. Griest, MD Family Chair
Kirk Etheridge Patricia Adsit Chair
HORN Michelle Hembree, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Swanson Chair
Katherine Loesch TRUMPET Andrew Lott, Principal Gaylord D. Adsit Chair Daniel Ross George M. Schatzlein Chair Akira Murotani Charles Walter Hursh Chair TROMBONE Vacant, Principal W. Paul and Carolyn Wolf Chair
HARP Anne Preucil Lewellen, Principal Fort Wayne Philharmonic Friends Chair ORGAN Irene Ator Robert Goldstine Chair PIANO Alexander Klepach Robert & Harriet Parrish Chair
CHAMBER MUSICIANS
Brian Johnston, Second Trombone
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC CONTRIBUTING MUSICIANS VIOLIN Jessica Bennett Shana Brath Gina Buzzelli Nicole Deguire Amber Dimoff Regan Eckstein Janice Eplett Emelinda Escobar Marley Haller Renee Henley Taishi Namura Linda Oper Sam Petrey Anna Poitrowski Joachim Stepniewski Michelle Taylor Emily Thompson Lauren Tourkow
VIOLA Rachel Goff Emily Mondok Charlie Pikler Ashley Ray Anna Ross Liisa Wiljer CELLO Martyna Bleke Michael Frigo Peter Opie Heather Scott iris Ji BASS Nick Adams Brad Kuhns John Tonne
FLUTE Janet Galbraith Patricia Reeves Jessica Warren OBOE Jennet Ingle Jonathan Snyder Stephanie Patterson CLARINET Gavin Arnold Laurie Blanchet Sergey Gutorov Dan Healton Dan Won
BASSOON Alex McCrory Alan Palider Keith Sweger Mike Trentacosti
TROMBONE Kevin Dombrowski John Grodrian David Parrilla Tyler Vahldick
HORN Kurt Civilette Amy Krueger Charlotte O’Connor Renèe Vogen
TUBA Paul Mergen
TRUMPET Matt Anklan Matt Baker Alex Carter Dan Price Charles Roberts
PERCUSSION Matt Hawkins Renee Keller Ben Kipp Dan Zawodniak Jason Yoder KEYBOARD Jonathan Mann
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHILHARMONIC FRIENDS
Hello Friends and welcome to the Holiday Season! In the last Prelude, I shared some of the ways that the Philharmonic Friends help to support music education in our next generation by providing scholarships for private lessons and getting instruments into the hands of kids who might not otherwise have access to them. And, we do some pretty cool things for the grownups too. Have you ever attended Musically Speaking? If not, you are missing a fun, free opportunity to learn more about the composers and music selections for that night’s program. Musically Speaking begins at 6:30 p.m. prior to each Masterworks program. It’s hosted by Associate Conductor, Caleb Young and frequently you will get to meet the guest musicians or composers who are invited to talk about their lives, backgrounds and music they are playing. Caleb also teaches us about the composers and the selections being played. His insights really enhance your concert experience. All ages and levels of musical knowledge will enjoy this program! For concerts at the Embassy, Musically Speaking is held in The Gallery at the Grand Wayne Center and for those at the Auer Performance Hall, meet in Instrumental Rehearsal room 120, both at 6:30 p.m. This program is entirely sponsored by The Philharmonic Friends. One of the ways we raise funds that support Musically Speaking are bus trips. We have a great time and get to see
amazing programs. Our next trip will be to see Bandstand at the Stranahan Theater in Toledo, Ohio on January 11, 2020. Bandstand tells the story of a group of veterans returning home to the U.S. after W.W.II and how they use the swing music of the times to move forward from the effects of the war. The cost is $135 and includes luxury motor coach transportation, driver gratuity, Bistro Nota box lunch, matinee reserved main level seat, wine appetizers, door prizes and raffle on the return trip. The bus leaves from the New Haven High School at 11:00 a.m. and returns about 6:30 p.m. No early mornings or late night returns makes for an easy, fun day! Interested? Contact me at either 260.433.1992 or carolkellerrealtor@gmail.com. And finally, a HUGE Thank You to everyone who responded by returning membership dues! Do you want to be a Friend? Contact me at the above email for more info. Carol Keller,
President, Philharmonic Friends
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC FRIENDS OFFICERS Carol Keller – President Sara Davis – Vice President Education Jayne Van Winkle – Vice President Hospitality Patty Arata – Recording Secretary Kathy Sessions – Corresponding Secretary Sarah Reynolds – Treasurer
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BOARD MEMBERS Patty Arata ClarAnn Bengs Barbara Boerger Ana Bowman Tadd Bowman Mary Campbell Sara Davis Emily Elko Cynthia Fyock Sandra Hellwege Pat Holtvoigt
Carol Keller Peggy Lee Judy Lopshire Nellie Bee Maloley John McFann Sarah Reynolds Kathie Sessions Marcella Trentacosti Alexandra Tsilibes Julie VanLue Jayne Van Winkle Galen Yordy
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chuck Surack – Chair Mary Fink – Treasurer Sherrill Colvin – Vice Chair Mark Hagerman – Vice Chair Kendall Dudley Billows – Vice Chair Vicki James – Secretary Ben Eisbart – Immediate Past Chair Sharon Peters – Vice Chair
Anita Hursh Cast Sherrill Colvin Kendall Dudley Billows Raymond Dusman, MD Ben Eisbart Ron Elsenbaumer Mary Fink Carole Fuller Michael Galbraith Mark Hagerman Jonathan Hancock Vicki James Carol Keller Carol Lindquist Andrew Lott
Scott Miller, MD Dan Nieter Tammy O’Malley Sharon Peters Judy Pursley Sarah Reynolds Dar Richardson* Jeff Sebeika Carol Shuttleworth Philip Smith Steve Smith Nancy Stewart Chuck Surack Barb Wachtman
HONORARY BOARD
Patricia Adsit Howard L. & Betsy* Chapman Will & Ginny Clark Drucilla (Dru) S. Doehrman William N. & Sara Lee* Hatlem Diane S. Humphrey
Jane L. Keltsch Dorothy Kittaka William Lee Carol Lehman Elise D. Macomber Michael J. Mastrangelo, MD
Jeanette Quilhot Richard & Carolyn Sage Howard & Marilyn Steele Zohrab Tazian W. Paul Wolf Donald F. Wood*
PAST CHAIRMAN OF THE PHILHARMONIC
1944-1945 1945-1947 1947-1948 1948-1950 1950-1951 1951-1953 1953-1955 1955-1958 1958-1960 1960-1962 1962-1964 1964-1967 1967-1968 1968-1972 1972-1973 1973-1975 1975-1977 1977-1979 1979-1981
Carl D. Light* Frank Freimann* Byron H. Somers* James M. Barrett, III* Frederick A. Perfect* Miss Helene Foellinger* Robert C. Hanna* J. Francis Cahalan, Jr.* John S. Sturgeon* Allen C. Steere* Alfred Maloley* James F. Anglin* Howard A. Watters* Janet H. Latz* John H. Crocker, Jr.* Mrs. Robert L. Greenlee* George T. Dodd Anita Hursh Cast Jackson R. Lehman*
1981-1983 1983 1983-1985 1985-1987 1987-1989 1989-1991 1991-1993 1993-1995 1995-1997 1997-1999 1999-2001 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2007 2007-2011 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
James K. Posther* Mrs. Donald R. Sugarman John H. Shoaff Howard E. Steele Willis S. Clark The Hon. William C. Lee Leonard M. Goldstein* David A. Haist Scott McGehee Michael J. Mastrangelo, MD Thomas L. Jones Michael E. McCollum Peter G. Mallers Michael J. Mastrangelo, MD Eleanor H. Marine Greg Myers Carol Lindquist Ben Eisbart *Indicates Deceased
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FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC STAFF
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
DEVELOPMENT
James W. Palermo Managing Director
Brittany Hall Assistant Managing Director
Roxanne Kelker Executive Assistant to the Managing Director & Music Director
Stephanie Wuest Annual Fund Manager
ARTISTIC OPERATIONS Jim Mancuso General Manager Lorenzo Kleine Director of Operations Timothy Tan Orchestra Personnel Manager Adrian Mann Orchestra Librarian/Staff Arranger Joel Dreyer Stage Manager Dalen Wuest Artistic & Development Coordinator
Ann Cavalancia Development Associate FINANCE & TECHNOLOGY Beth Conrad Director of Finance Kathleen Farrier Accounting Clerk MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Emily Shannon Director of Marketing & Public Relations Brooke Sheridan Publications & Graphics Manager
EDUCATION
Doug Dennis Communications & Public Relations Manager
Jason Pearman Director of Education & Community Engagement
Daniel Cavalancia Ticket Operations & Sales Manager
Anne Preucil Lewellen Education & Ensemble Coordinator
MaryAnne Skora Patron Services Associate
Aaron Samra Club Orchestra Program Manager
Hayley Johnson Patron Services Associate
Troy Webdell Director of Youth Orchestras Photo/Video Disclaimer: During your visit, you or members of your family may be filmed, videotaped, and/or photographed by a Fort Wayne Philharmonic employee, contract photographer or the media. Your attendance at Fort Wayne Philharmonic events serves as permission for the use of your image, or the image of your family members, by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Content Disclaimer: Fort Wayne Philharmonic does not offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person. If you have any questions about content, age-appropriateness or stage effects that might have a bearing on patron comfort, please contact the box office at 260.481.0777. Sensory Friendly Kits: Sensory friendly kits are available at the Embassy Theatre; please inquire at the Box Office to check out a kit. Sensory friendly kits contain noise reducing headphones, several small fidget items, a communications deck, identification wristband, a weighted comfort item and sanitizing wipes.
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FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC SPONSORS
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic thanks these sponsors for their generous contributions over the past twelve months. Please call 260.481.0774 to become a sponsor. SERIES SPONSORS The Paul Yergens and Virginia Yergens Rogers Foundation
Chuck & Lisa Surack
The Robert, Carrie and Bobbie Steck Family Foundation
APPASSIONATO ($150,000 TO $249,999)
The Paul Yergens and Virginia Yergens Rogers Foundation
Chuck & Lisa Surack
ALLEGRETTO ($50,000 TO $149,999) Anonymous (1) June E. Enoch Foundation
Robert, Carrie, and Bobbie Steck Family Foundation
FOUNDER’S SOCIETY ($25,000 TO $49,999) Rick & Vicki James
VIRTUOSO SOCIETY ($10,000 TO $24,999)
FRIENDS
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The Donald F. Wood and Darlene M. Richardson Foundation Miller Family Fund O’Malley Charitable Fund
STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY ($5,000 TO $9,999) Jim & Gloria Nash, in memory of John L. Verweire, Emel Verweire, and Wade John Verweire, Jr.
Janice H. Eplett, in memory of Winifred Howe and F. Russell Eplett
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($2,500 TO $4,999) Anonymous (1) Bose McKinney & Evans LLP Fort Wayne TinCaps
James W. Palermo Jeff Sebeika
Carol Shuttleworth & Michael Gavin
PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE ($1,000 TO $2,499) Anita & Bill Cast Parrish Leasing, Inc. Physicians Health Plan
Purple Blaze Enterprise, LLC Judy Pursley Jeremy & Clarissa Reis
Alfred Zacher
CONCERTMASTER ($500 TO $999) Edward & Kristen Brower
Mr. David Krabach & Cosmopolites Business & Professional Women’s Club Dr. Susan Steffy
CONTRIBUTOR ($1 TO $99) Debra F. Russell IN KIND DONATIONS A Party Apart Arby’s BluSpoon Catering Bravas The Clyde
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Don Hall’s Catering Excell Color Graphics Firefly Coffee House Markey’s Rental & Staging Pizza Hut
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Subway Taco Bell Wendy’s
PHILharmonious AUCTION SPONSORS AMC Theatres Arena Dinner Theatre Auburn City Steakhouse B. Antonio’s Pizza BakerStreet Belmont Beverage Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano Ana & Tadd Boman Hope Bowie Bradley Gough Diamonds Judi Bruck Bussick Orthodontics Casa Ristoranti Italiano Bill & Anita Cast Catablu Grille Christopher James Menswear Cinema Center Ginny Clark Andrew Constantine Crestwoods Frame Shop Nicole Croy Cunningham Optical One North Irwin F. Deister Pat Demond Family Edwin Coe Spirits Madelane Elston Fort Wayne Ballet Fort Wayne Civic Theatre Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo Fort Wayne Dance Collective
Fort Wayne Komets Fort Wayne Philharmonic Board of Directors Free Wind Farm French-Deal Fine Art French Kande Natalee Fuller Doug & Cynthia Fyock Grandma Sue’s Pies and More Grant Park Music Festival Habegger Furniture Hall’s Restaurants Holiday World Honeywell Center The Hoppy Gnome Diane Humphrey Emma Hyndman Indiana Caverns Fred Inman Katharos Art & Gift Pamela Kelly Mad Anthonys/Shigs In Pit Eleanor Marine Mike’s Car Wash Scott Miller Moose and Mollies Café Dan & Beth Nieter The North End Olive Twist
Tammy O’Malley The Oyster Bar James W. Palermo Paper Moon Papier Creative Framing Parkview Health Pebblestone Retro, Sarah Schwaiger Peekaboo Lane Peg Perego Pizza Hut Proximo Sarah Reynolds Rick & Vicki James Rolling Pin Bakehouse Ruth’s Chris Steak House San Martin Designs, Steven & Susan Shaikh Chuck & Lisa Surack/ Sweetwater Three Rivers Music Theatre Two EE’s Winery Vera Bradley Viva Vintage 4U Stephanie Wuest The Yergens Rogers Estate Al Zacher Robyn Zimmerman
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Annual Fund 2019 | 2020
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FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUALS
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their generous gifts received within the past twelve months. Every attempt is made to include donors who supported the Philharmonic during that time. Please contact the office if errors have been made. For information about supporting the Philharmonic’s 2018-2019 Annual Fund, contact the Development Office at 260.481.0774. ALLEGRETTO (GIFTS OF $50,000+) Vicki & Rick James
Chuck & Lisa Surack, Sweetwater Sound
FOUNDERS SOCIETY (GIFTS OF $25,000 TO $49,999) Anonymous (1) VIRTUOSO SOCIETY (GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $24,999) Anonymous (1) Wayne & Linda Boyd Howard & Betsy* Chapman Tod Kovara
Floyd & Betty Lou Lancia Eleanor H. Marine Winifred Mayes
Dr. Evelyn M. Pauly* Judy Pursley Russ & Jeanette Quilhot Virginia Lee Zimmerman
STADIVARIUS SOCIETY (GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $9,999) Dr. & Mrs.* Alfred Allina Drs. David Paul J. & Jeneen Almdale George & Linn Bartling David & Janet Bell Sherrill & Sarah Colvin Mr. & Mrs.* Irwin F. Deister Jr.
Ben & Sharon Eisbart David & Mary Fink Fort Wayne Metals Mark & Mary Kay Hagerman Drs. Kevin & Pamela Kelly Chris & Kirsten LaSalle
Antoinette & Dr. H. S.* Lee Kevin & Tamzon O’Malley Michael & Carla Overdahl Jeff Sebeika John Shoaff & Julie Donnell
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE (GIFTS OF $2,500 TO $4,999) Holly & Gil Bierman David Billows & Kendall Dudley Billows Emily & Michael Elko David S. Goodman Patricia S. Griest William N. & Sara Lee* Hatlem Dr. Rudy & Rhonda Kachmann
Dorothy K. Kittaka Scott A. & Susan C. Miller James W. Palermo David & Sharon Peters Carolyn & Dick Sage Carol Shuttleworth & Michael Gavin
Philip & Rebecca Smith W. E. Spindler Robert & Donna Streeter Barbara Wachtman & Tom Skillman Al Zacher Bryan & Kyla Zehr
PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE (GIFTS FROM $1,000 TO $2,499) Anonymous (5) Jeane K. Almdale Tim & Libby Ash Family Foundation Norma & Tom Beadie Donna & Charlie Belch Katherine Bishop
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Barbara L. Boerger Janellyn & Glenn Borden Dr. & Mrs. Todd P. Briscoe Mr. & Mrs. Craig D. Brown Barbara Bulmahn Anita & Bill Cast Willis S. Clark
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Tom & Margaret Dannenfelser Keith & Kyle Davis Tim & Ann Dempsey Sandra K. Dolson George & Ann Donner Jack & Tammy Dyer
Mrs. J. Robert Edwards Robert & Carol Fawley Fred & Mary Anna Feitler Susan & Richard Ferguson Ronald B. Foster Elizabeth Frederick Jane Gerardot & Jeff Leffers Thomas E. Green Eloise Guy Brittany A. Hall Jonathan & Alice Hancock Bob & Liz Hathaway James & Anne Heger Leonard Helfrich Sattar & Marlene Jaboori Marcia & Andy Johnson Ginny & Bill Johnson Bruce & Mary Koeneman Jim & Barbie Lancia
Suzanne Light Drs. David & Carol Lindquist Anne Longtine & Marco Spallone Mr. & Mrs. Duane Lupke Anne & Ed Martin Michael Mastrangelo Scott & Donna Mattson Susan & David Meyer Kathryn Miller Greg & Barbara Myers Daniel & Beth Nieter Josh & Cristina Parrish Norma J. Pinney Joseph & Lindsay Platt The Rev. C. Corydon Randall & Mrs. Marian Randall Caroll & Bill Reitz Dr. Peter M. Rothman Dr. Janet Schafer
Jeanette D. Schouweiler Tracy & Gretchen Shellabarger Stephen R. & Anne S. Smith Nancy & David Stewart Kathleen M. Summers Arthur & Karen Surguine Carol Terwilliger Rachel A. Tobin-Smith Mark Troutman & Ann Wallace Lewie Wiese Nancy Vendrely Wayne & Helen Waters Joseph Weaver Dr. James C. Wehrenberg Herbert & Lorraine Weier Matthew & Sara Wilcox Leslie & John Williams Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Zollinger
CONCERTMASTER (GIFTS FROM $500 TO $999) Anonymous (2) David Anzelmo Nancy F. Archer Scott & Barbara Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. William Arnold Richard & Matoula Avdul Jim & Ellen Barr Matt, Beth, & Grace Bechdol Michael & Deborah Bendall David W. Bischoff Richard & Cathryn Boys Nelson & Mary Coats Mrs. Virginia Coats Dr. & Mrs. Fred W. Dahling Sara Davis Erica Dekko Susan Devito George & Nancy Dodd Anita G. Dunlavy Bruce & Ellen England Joseph P. Fiacable John D. & Jane G. Foell
Mr. & Mrs. Herb Fuller G. Irving Latz II Fund Steven & Nancy Gardner Tim & Ann Gibson Mrs. Lois Guess Sharon Gustin Linda Hansen & Tim McElwee Ms. Susan Hanzel William & Sarah Hathaway Mr. & Mrs. Addison Johnson Gordon Johnson Kenneth & Martha Johnson Larry & Annette Kapp Richard & Mary Koehneke Ed & Linda Kos David Krabach & Dr. Susan Steffy Jon & Kathy Lassus Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lee David & Melissa Long Anne Lovett Paul & Pauline Lyons
Thomas & Dianne May Lusina McNall Jim & Alice Merz Ed & Martha Miller Paul & Bonnie Moore Suzon Motz Kenneth & Linda Moudy Old Crown Brass Band Joan K. Olinghouse William & Melinda Peiserich Keith Raftree Bill & Sue Ransom Dr. Stephen & Carmen Reed Maryellen M. Rice Kay Safirstein Frederica Schaefer Melissa & Peter Schenkel Scot C. Schouweiler & Julie Keller Dr. Sharon J. Singleton Ruidong Sun & Xue Zhang Carolyn & Larry Vanice
FIRST CHAIR (GIFTS FROM $100 TO $499) Anonymous (16) Max M. Achleman* Fran & Irv Adler David & Ellen Ahlersmeyer Larry Allen Dr. Michael & Alysia Alter Thomas E. Alter & Maryanne Alter Mr. & Mrs. Brad Altevogt Ambulatory Medical Management Patty Arata Ms. Mary Jo Ardington Tom & Pamela Armbuster Mel & Ruth Arnold Milton & Barbara Ashby Lonnie & Mary Au Dick & Adie Baach
Mr. & Mrs. A. Gerald Backstrom Craig & Peggy Balliet Linda Balthaser Cheryl Bartkavage John & Cathy Batuello Michael & Kay Bauserman Greg & Lydia Beer Amy & John Beatty Tony & Pat Becker Mr. & Mrs. Don Bendel Robert Benninghoff Bix & Anita Benson Diana Berich Jim & Gay Berlien Larry & Martha Berndt Norb & Melissa Berninger Mr. H. Stephen Beyer
Vivan Bickley Mr. & Mrs. Don Bieberich Stan & Janalee Bieberich Matthew & Tracy Bilodeau Joyce Bir Sheldon Bixler David Blackwell Sherry L. Blake Norma Bloom Steven Bloomfield Ann Blue Barbara Boggs Mr. & Mrs. John P. Boerger Dr. Charles & Nonda Bolyard Jon Bomberger & Kathryn Roudebush Bruce Bone Rebecca Bouse
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Dennis Bowman Anne Marie Bracht James Bradley Ruth A. Braun Dr. Helene Breazeale Mr. & Mrs. David C. Brennan John P. Brennan & SuzAnne Runge Roberta Brokaw Evelyn Brosch-Goodwin Mark Bruhn & Valerie Kirby Mr. David Brumm & Ms. Kim McDonald Mr. & Mrs. William & Joan Bryant William & Dorothy Burford Carol E Burns Dr. David & Gayle Burns Barbara W. Bushnell Joyce & Paul Buzzard Andy & Peg Candor John & Jill Case Janice Cave Mike & Nancy Caywood Barbara Chamberlin David & Patricia Childers Steve Christman Dennis Chubinksi John Clarke David Coats Mark & Michele Colchin Barbara Collins Nathan Comsia Joseph & Nancy Conrad Matt & Kim Converse Dr. John N. Crawford Wendell & Mary Cree Bob & Margita Criswell Curt & Amy Crouch Dan & Marjorie* Culbertson Pat Darif & Sally Thomas Janet Dawson & Jerry Smith Lenore DeFonso Tom & Holly DeLong Martha Derbyshire Mrs. Kathy Dew Sharon Dietrich Barbara Doehrman Steven Doepker Gene & Carol Dominique Mr. & Mrs. Donald L Duff Kirk Dunkelberger Ann H. Eckrich Sally & Ned Edington Don & Mary Kay Ehlerding Susan Eickenberry Cynthia Elick Robert Ellison Lillian C. Embick Albert & Jeanne Emilian EPCO Products Pam Evans-Mitoraj Pauline Eversole Dave & Yvonne Fee Beverly Fetcko Fitzharris Family
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Michael & Marcia Flood Dick Florea & Sandy Shearer Robert Forte Jeff Frappier William Freeman Sheryl A. Friedley Eugene Fulmore Michael Galbraith Elizabeth Garr Leonard Garrett Robert & Barbara Gasser Sharran Gavin Betsy & Geoff Gephart Doug & Ruby Gerber Mark & Susyn Giaquinta Thomas GiaQuinta Michele Gillespie Roy & Mary Gilliom Lynne Gilmore Tertuliano & Marcia Giraldo Robert & Constance Godley William & Mary Goudy Janelle & Steven Graber Larry Graham Norm & Ronnie Greenberg James B. Griffith David & Myra Guilford Mary K. Gynn Jay & Sandra Habig Svetlana Hagan Susan Halley Tiia Harvey Vince & Dianne Hansen Barbara & Brian Harris Dennis & Joan Headlee David Heath Franklin & Dorothy Heath John Heath Jacqueline Heckler John & Susan Hein Kelly Heller Marsha Heller Sandy Hellwege Greg & Emma Henderson Ms. Julie Henricks Mayor Tom C. & Cindy Henry Frederick & Sharon Hepler Lois Hess Lucille Hess Mark & Debbie Hesterman Bob & Karen Hoffman Tom & Jane Hoffman Steven & Becky Hollingsworth Philip Hudson Marlene Huffman Tom & Mary Hufford Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Huge Mark & Karen Huntington Ed & Mary Lou Hutter Hyndman Industrial Products Inc. George & Jane Irmscher Kenneth Ivan Carol Jackson Tom Jaquish Jill Jeffery
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Mike Johnson David & Kathleen Johnston Alex & Sharon Jokay Don & Joyce Jordan Susan Kaiser Lois Kaufmann-Hunsberger Emily & Ryan Keirns Charles & Carol Keller Luann R. Keller Kendall & Davis, Inc. Bridget Kelly John & Andrea Kelley Jane L. Keltsch Mr. & Mrs. Chris Kidd Sheila D. Kiefer Michael & Sarah Kindinger Stephen King John Kirchhofer Audrey Kirk Karen Knepper James & Janice Koday Ronald & Patricia Kohart Arthur & Elaine Konwinski Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Krach Carolyn Krebs Toni Kring & Larry Hayes Hedi Krueger John Kruk Georgia Kuhns Dr. Larry H. Lambertson Miriam Larmore Scott & Amy Lazoff Drs. Chung-Seng & S. Sage Lee William & Judith* Lee Brad & Donna Lehman Douglas Lehman Steve & Rhonda Lehman Mrs. Frances LeMay Michael & Mary Lewis Al & Janet Lindsten Arthur & Marcia Litton Marlene Lobsiger Chuck Logar Dr. Joshua Long Judith Lopshire Andy & Rachel Lott Tom & Sue Lough Frank Luarde Jerry L. Mackel M.D. Larry & Janet Macklin Peg Maginn Peter & Christine Mallers Ginny & Nellie Bee Maloley Harry & Barbara Manges Rob & Natalie Manges Gale Mann Linda Marshall Jane Martin Cheryl Mathews Elmer & Patsy Matthews David & Kathie Matz Judith E Maxwell Linda McArdle Dr. & Mrs. Michael L. McArdle Susan J. McCarrol
Mary McDonald John H. & Shelby McFann Mr. Scott McMeen Samuel & Anita Medici Leanne Mensing Elizabeth Meyer Jane A. Meyer Sharon Michael David & Ann Miller Kerry A. Miller CJ & Andrea Mills Mr. & Mrs. Carl Moellering David & Linda Molfenter Mary Helen Moore Noel & Diane Moore Mr. & Mrs. Ray Moore Deborah Morgan Eleanora Moricz Chuck & Becky Morris Charles & April Morrison Marylee Morton Dr. David Moser John & Barb Mueller Kevin & Pat Murphy Ryan C. Murray Mr. Michael Mushett Paul Nalliah Steve Naragon & Pam Higgins Sean & Melanie Natarajan Ted & Deb Neuenschwander Ed Neufer Bob Nicolai David Griebel & Cathy Niemeyer Margaret Nolan Beverly Norton Mary Novosel Dr. Kay Novotny Elizabeth Nygaard & Travis M. Sims Dewayne & Betty Oakes Don & Jenny Oberbillig John O’Connell & James Williams Kristy Ohneck Ron & Nancy Orman Mrs. Mary Jane Ormerod Betty O’Shaughnessey Marvella Overfield Dr. C. James & Susan J. Owen Jan Paflas Emmanuel & Noemi Paraiso Pat & Mac Parker Rick Partin Brian & Sue Payne Penny Pequignot John & Liat Peters Katherine Phillips David & Billie Pierre Beverly Pigott Raymond & Betty Pippert Marianne P. Platt Anthony Porter Edwin & Cynthia Powers Tresa M. Pricer Marvin & Vivian Priddy
Sara Pulse Linda Pulver Marlene Purdy Helen F. Pyles Cindy & Fred Rasp John & Diana Reed Paul & Lu Reiff Jeremy & Clarissa Reis Bev Renbarger Carl & Jaci Reuter Paul Rexroth Madonna Reynolds Sarah & Richard Reynolds Ruth & Phillip Rivard Rita Robbins Gwenn Roberts Karen Roberts Richard & Ann Robinson Janet Roe Suzanne & John Rogers Jim* & Beth Rohrer Ron & Rhonda Root Susan Rosenberg Stanley & Enid Rosenblatt Stan & Gretchen Roth Shari Roy David & Patricia Rumon Brenda Ryland Marilyn Salon Marshall Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Robert Savage Jo Ann Schall Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scheimann Gail Scheithauer Albert & Ruth Ann Schlitt Tom & Mary Ellen Schon Chuck & Patty Schrimper Ed Schultz Richard & Ruth Schwartz Richard & Suzanne Shankle Ms. Elizabeth Sheets Amanda & Charles Shepard Ms. Cornelia L. Shideler Wayne & Ann Shive Eunice Shoaff Katherine Sider David T. & Nancy Sites Ramona & Dick Sive Mary Jane Slaton Jan Sloan Craig Smith Dr. Darryl & Sharon Smith Hope Swanson Smith Keston Smith & Sandra Guffey Lynda D. Smith Sharon M. Snow Julia Snyder Drs. David A. & Judith J. Sorg Michael E. Sorg Sal & Jackie Soto Rachel Starr Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Stedge Mrs. Lois A. Steere David & Beth Steiner
Tom & Mary Jane Steinhauser Don Steininger Sylvia Stell Annetta Stork Michael & Cheryl Summers Angela Boerger & Jeffrey Strayer Daniel Swartz Lynn & David Syler Steven & Ruth Anne Teeple Judge Philip R. Thieme Carl & Cynthia Thies Andrea Thomas Craig Tidball Larry Till Larry & Robin Tinsley Mr. Jarod Todd Julianne Toenges Robert Toth Carmen Tse & David Broerman Scott & Jenny Tsuleff J. Phillip Tyndall Susan & Bob Ueber Don & Amy Urban Jayne Van Winkle Walter Vandagriff Ronald VanDiver Alan Wagmeister Ted & Robin Wagner Andrea Waingold Daniel & June Walcott Carol Ward Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Weber John & Pat Weicker Angela Weidler William Weinrich Keitha & Steve Wesner Thomas & Tamara Wheeler Dr. & Mrs. Alfred A. Wick David Wiegman John & Nancy Wilhelm Ellen K. Wilson Hope Wilson Jason Wilson John & Deb Wilson Sue & Matt Wojewuczki Debbie L. Woodroof Lea B. Woodrum Bette Worley Franklin & Judith Wright Phil & Marcia Wright Stephen & Marsha Wright Rudy Wuttke Mark Yde Mr. Galen Yordy Bob & Jan Younger Barb Zabel Regina Zartman Mary Ann & Mike Ziembo Dodie Zonakis
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FOUNDATION AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
MAESTOSO ($250,000+) The James Foundation APPASSIONATO ($150,000 TO $249,999) Anonymous (1)
English Bonter Mitchell Foundation
The Paul Yergens and Virginia Yergens Rogers Foundation
ALLEGRETTO ($50,000 TO $149,999) June E. Enoch Foundation Anonymous (2) Edward D. & Ione Auer Foundation Foellinger Foundation Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne W. Gene Marcus Trust The Dekko Foundation
Steel Dynamics Foundation The Robert, Carrie, and Bobbie Steck Family Foundation
FOUNDER’S SOCIETY ($25,000 TO $49,999) AWS Foundation Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne
The Huisking Foundation Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts
Lincoln Financial Foundation The Rifkin Family Foundation
VIRTUOSO SOCIETY ($10,000 TO $24,999) Eric A. & Mary C. Baade Charitable Purposes Trust Olive B. Cole Foundation K. Robert Ehrman Endowment Fund
Edward M. and Mary McCrea Wilson Foundation The Rea Charitable Trust The Donald F. Wood and Darlene M. Richardson Foundation
Edward and Hildegarde Schaefer Foundation O’Rourke Schof Family Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation
STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY ($5,000 TO $9,999) Ecolab Foundation
Ian & Mimi Rolland Foundation
Journal-Gazette Foundation
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($2,500 TO $4,999) 3Rivers Credit Union Foundation
BAE Systems Community Investment
Community Foundation of Whitley County
PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE ($1,000 TO $2,499) Adams County Community Foundation Arthur and Josephine Beyer Foundation Community Foundation DeKalb County
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Gerald M. and Carole A. Miller Family Foundation Noble County Community Foundation Porter Family Foundation The Salin Foundation
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Steuben County Community Foundation Jennie Thompson Foundation Mary E. Van Drew Charitable Foundation
CONCERTMASTER ($500 TO $999) City of Angola Kappa Kappa Kappa Zeta Upsilon
Kosciusko County REMC Operation RoundUp Fund Psi Iota Xi - Theta Theta Chapter
Randall L. & Deborah F. Tobias Foundation
FIRST CHAIR ($100 TO $499) Psi Iota Xi - Rho Chapter
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC REGIONAL PARTNERS
The Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges the follow regional supporters who invest in the cultural vibrancy of their own communities. The Philharmonic is honored to perform for enthusiastic audiences throughout the Northeast Indiana region and welcomes and values each contribution that makes these concerts and education performances possible. Thank you! MULTIPLE COUNTY SUPPORT Dekko Foundation English Bonter Mitchell Foundation
Parkview Health
Steel Dynamics
Antoinette K. Lee Porter Family Foundation
Joe & Janell Schwartz
Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Hathaway The James Foundation Rick & Vicki James Kim’s Korner Music
Dr. Keith & Phyllis Perry Scheumann Dental Associates
Omer & Susan Kropf Cindy & Fred Rasp The Salin Foundation in Memory of Bill Salin Smoker Craft, Inc. STAR Financial Bank Jim & Patrice Marcuccilli and Tom & Joan Marcuccilli
Randall & Deborah Tobias Foundation, Inc. Wawasee Property Owners Association Dr. & Mrs. Leamon D. Williams Al Zacher
ADAMS COUNTY Adams County Community Foundation Eichorn Jewelry, INC. DEKALB COUNTY Auburn Moose Family Center Beth, Grace, & Matt Bechdol Community Foundation of DeKalb County FULTON COUNTY Psi Iota Xi - Eta Mu Chapter KOSCIUSKO COUNTY Ann S. Borne Donn & Linda Baird Irwin F. Deister, Jr. Ben & Elaine Johnston Kosciusko REMC Operation Round-up Fund Fritz Kreutzinger & Sharon Brennan
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NOBLE COUNTY Campbell & Fetter Bank
Dekko Investment Services
Jennie Thompson Foundation
Pat & Bill Culp Carol & Joe Frymier Suzi Hanzel Karen & Jim Huber Javets Inc. Lake James Association Gerald M. and Carole A. Miller Family Foundation
Max & Sandy Robison Rho Chapter of Psi Iota Xi Steuben County Community Foundation Vestil Mfg. Jim & Kathy Zimmerman
AdamsWells Internet Telecom TV
Troxel Equipment
Community Foundation of Whitley County
Copp Farm Supply STAR Financial Bank
STEUBEN COUNTY Charles & Ruth Ann Sheets Indiana Arts Commission Angola American Legion Post 31 City of Angola Kappa Kappa Kappa, Inc. Zeta Upsilon Chapter Dr. & Mrs. Jonathon Alley Dr. & Mrs. Todd P. Briscoe WELLS COUNTY Anonymous (1) John & Jolin Whicker WHITLEY COUNTY ChromaSource, Inc. Churubusco Family Dentistry Dr. & Mrs. Richard Zollinger
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ENDOWMENT FUND
The Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges the following friends who have recently contributed gifts in honor of loved ones. All memorial, honorariums, and bequests are directed to the Endowment Fund unless otherwise specified by the donor. These gifts are so meaningful and appreciated. SPECIAL ENDOWMENTS The Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges these special endowments, which are in addition to the musician chair endowments. See pages 50-51 for musician chair endowments. Chorus Director Podium Louise Bonter
Freimann Chamber Series In Memory of Frank Freimann
Philharmonic Center Rehearsal Hall In honor of Robert and Martina Berry, by Liz and Mike Schatzlein
Youth Symphony Walter W. Walb Foundation
Music Library Josephine Dodez Burns and Mildred Cross Lawson Music Director Podium Ione Breeden Auer Foundation Guest Violinist Chair Nan O’ Rourke
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Family Concerts Howard and Betsy Chapman Young People’s Concerts The Helen P. Van Arnam Foundation Philharmonic Preschool Music Program Ann D. Ballinger Radio Broadcasts Susan L. Hanzel
BEQUESTS The Fort Wayne Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges recent bequests from the following estates: Oscar H. & Elda A. Albers* Marjorie R. Cavell* Frederick Beckman* Frank Freimann*
Charlotte A. Koomjohn* Doris Latz* Betty Okeson* Sanford Rosenberg*
Lynne Salomon* Alice C. Thompson
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC TRIBUTES
The Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges the following friends who have recently contributed gifts in honor of loved ones. All memorial, honorariums, and bequests are directed to the Endowment Fund unless otherwise specified by the donor. These gifts are so meaningful and appreciated. In Memory of Elizabeth (Betsy) Chapman Janellyn & Glenn Borden Anita & Bill Cast Sarah & Sherrill Colvin Eleanor H. Marine Russ & Jeanette Quilhot In Memory of Don Goldner Eleanor H. Marine In Memory of Sara Lee Hatlem Janellyn & Glenn Borden Eleanor H. Marine Russ & Jeanette Quilhot In Memory of William Haines Kimberley Haines In Memory of Carolyn Hoffman Anonymous (1) Karl & Diane Blust Carol Bower Karen K. Butler Roy Cooksey Paul & Eva Correll Pam Dager Barbara A. Griffin Linda W. Harmon Arden & Cathy Hoffman Rodney & Susan Hoffman Jane L. Keltsch Jennifer Keltsch Rebecca Klenke
Shirlie R. Schmidt In Memory of Winifred F. Howe and F. Russell Eplett Janice Eplett In Memory of Lorene Kelley John Kelley In Memory of Judith Lee Sarah & Sherrill Colvin In Memory of Naida MacDermid Mary Campbell Fred & Mary Anna Feitler Kenneth & Martha Johnson Lan-Con Electric Mary Parker Max Platt Ford-Lincoln Barbara Wachtman & Tom Skillman Jack & Joyce Walker In Memory of Gerladine Raufer Ms. Nigel Perry In Memory of Donald F. Wood Anita & Bill Cast In Memory of Olga Yurkova Fred & Mary Anna Feitler Kenneth & Martha Johnson Carl & Jaci Reuter Paula Neale Rice Benjamin & Alexia Rivera
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FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ENDOWMENT CONTRIBUTORS
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges and thanks the many contributors to its Endowment Fund, who for generations have been a lasting financial bedrock for the institution. The Endowment Fund ensures the Philharmonic’s future for succeeding generations as a symphonic ensemble, an educational leader, and a cultural ambassador for the entire Northeast Indiana region. Due to space limitation, the full list of Endowment Contributors will be shared in the first and last Prelude program books of each season. A full Endowment Fund listing is available year round on the website at fwphil.org. To learn more about specific naming opportunities or to discuss how you might make your own unique contribution to the future of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, please contact the Development office by phone at 260.481.0770, or by email at info@fwphil.org for further information. Comprehensive Campaign: Music for Everyone Anonymous (4) Edward D. & Ione B. Auer Foundation George & Linn Bartling David Billows & Kendall Dudley Billows Brotherhood Mutual Foundation Anita Hursh Cast Will & Ginny Clark Sarah & Sherrill Colvin Sara Davis Mr. & Mrs.* Irwin F. Deister, Jr. Ben & Sharon Eisbart English Bonter Mitchell Foundation David & Mary Fink Fort Wayne Metals Franklin Electric Carole Fuller The Goldstein Family Foundation
Mark & Mark Kay Hagerman Family Alice & Jonathan Hancock Leonard Helfrich Rick L. & Vicki L. James Drs. Pamela & Kevin Kelly Tod S. Kovara Suzanne Light Carol & David Lindquist Eleanor H. Maine Michael J. Mastrangelo The Miller Family Fund Scott A. Miller, MD Dan & Beth Nieter Kevin & Tamzon O’Malley O’Rourke Schof Family Foundation James W. Palermo Parkview Health Robert J. Parrish, Harriet A. Parrish and David T. Parrish Charitable Foundation
David & Sharon Peters Owen & Jean Pritchard Foundation Judy Pursley Russ & Jeanette Quilhot Sarah & Richard Reynolds Carol Shuttleworth & Michael Gavin The Robert, Carrie and Bobbie Steck Family Foundation Chuck & Lisa Surack, Sweetwater Barbara Wachtman & Tom Skillman Charlie & Jeanne’ Wickens Donald F. Wood* & Darlene* M. Richardson Paul Yergens and Virginia Yergens Rogers Foundation, Inc. Daryl Yost Alfred J. Zacher
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC LAUREATE CLUB
The Philharmonic honors planned giving donors with membership in the Laureate Club. A planned gift can provide an ideal opportunity to support the orchestra you love at a higher level, benefitting both you and your family. The Philharmonic welcomes the opportunity to assist you and your advisors in planning a contribution that suits your particular needs. Anonymous (23) Patricia Adsit Richard* & Sharon Arnold Dick & Adie Baach George & Linn Bartling Kevin Paul Beuert Ana Luisa Boman Janellyn & Glenn Borden Carolyn & Steven Brody Anita Hursh Cast Howard & Betsy* Chapman Fred & Mary Anna Feitler
Richard & Susan Ferguson Mrs. Edward Golden Leonard* & Rikki Goldstein Jay & Sandra Habig Susan Hanzel Jeff Haydon Donald Hicks Tom & Shirley Jones Diane Keoun Mrs. Bruce Koeneman Tod S. Kovara John Kurdziel
Antoinette Lee Jeff Leffers & Jane Gerardot Lockwood* & Eleanor Marine Mick & Susan McCollum John & Shelby McFann Donald Mefford John Shoaff & Julie Donnell Chuck & Lisa Surack Herbert & Lorraine Weier Mr. & Mrs. W. Paul Wolf *Indicates deceased
Please contact the Development Office at 260.481.0770 or by email at info@fwphil.org to find out more about specific planned giving strategies and arrangements.
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