M A G AZINE MAY s 2012
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Official Program Magazine of the Houston Symphony 615 Louisiana, Suite 102, Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 224-4240 • www.houstonsymphony.org
May • 2012
Programs 10 May 3-4 13 May 11-13 16 May 17, 19-20 22 May 25-27
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On Stage and Off
Former Houston Grand Opera Studio alumna, Albina Shagimuratova, returns this month to perform with the Houston Symphony in a colorful all-Mozart program.
5 Credits 27-35 Donors 8 From the Orchestra 8 Hans Graf 24 Houston Symphony Chorus 9 Letter to Patrons 4 Orchestra and Staff 26 Symphony Society
Features 6 2012 Symphony Ball Thank You 18 2012 Summer Preview 6 Annual Fund 36 Backstage Pass
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Orchestra and Staff. .......................................................................................... Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO
Hans Graf, Music Director Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair Michael Krajewski,
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Sponsor, Beth Madison
double Bass: David Malone, Acting Principal Mark Shapiro, Acting Associate Principal Eric Larson Robert Pastorek Burke Shaw Donald Howey Michael McMurray
First Violin: Frank Huang, Concertmaster Max Levine Chair Eric Halen, Associate Concertmaster Ellen E. Kelley Chair Assia Dulgerska, Assistant Concertmaster Cornelia and Meredith Long Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker, Hewlett-Packard Company Chair Alexandra Adkins MiHee Chung Sophia Silivos Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin
Flute: Aralee Dorough, Principal General Maurice Hirsch Chair John Thorne, Associate Principal Judy Dines Allison Jewett** Rebecca Powell-Garfield*** Piccolo: Allison Jewett** Rebecca Powell-Garfield*** Oboe: Anne Leek, Acting Principal Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Xiaodi Liu, Acting Associate Principal* Colin Gatwood Adam Dinitz
Second Violin: Jennifer Owen, Principal Tina Zhang, Associate Principal Hitai Lee Kiju Joh Mihaela Oancea-Frusina Ruth Zeger Margaret Bragg Martha Chapman Kevin Kelly Tong Yan Christine Pastorek Amy Teare Viola: Wayne Brooks, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Legacy Society Chair Joan DerHovsepian, Associate Principal George Pascal, Assistant Principal Wei Jiang Linda Goldstein Sheldon Person Fay Shapiro Daniel Strba Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Chair Thomas Molloy Phyllis Herdliska
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Timpani: Ronald Holdman, Principal Brian Del Signore, Associate Principal Percussion: Brian Del Signore, Principal Mark Griffith Matthew Strauss
Orchestra Personnel Manager: Steve Wenig Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager: Michael Gorman Librarian: Thomas Takaro
Bassoon: Rian Craypo, Principal Stewart Orton Chair Eric Arbiter, Associate Principal American General Chair J. Jeff Robinson** Elise Wagner Benjamin Atherholt*
Assistant LibrarianS: Erik Gronfor Michael McMurray
Contrabassoon: J. Jeff Robinson** Benjamin Atherholt*
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E-Flat Clarinet: Thomas LeGrand
Cello: Brinton Averil Smith, Principal Janice and Thomas Barrow Chair Christopher French, Associate Principal Haeri Ju Jeffrey Butler Kevin Dvorak Xiao Wong Myung Soon Lee James R. Denton Anthony Kitai
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2012 Symphony Ball Thank You. .....................................................................
Co-chairs David & Alexandra Pruner, Chairs David & Tara Wuthrich and Co-chairs Audrey & Brandon Cochran
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Hans Graf Biography.......................................................................................... Photo by Sandy Lankford
Known for his wide range of repertoire and creative programming, distinguished Austrian conductor Hans Graf—the Houston Symphony’s 15th Music Director—is one of today’s most highly respected musicians. He began his tenure here on Opening Night of the 2001-2002 season. Prior to his appointment in Houston, he was music director of the Calgary Philharmonic, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest with all of the major North American orchestras, Graf has developed a close relationship with the Boston Symphony and appears regularly with the orchestra during the subscription season and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Houston Symphony in January 2006 and returned leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in March 2007. He and the Houston Symphony were invited to appear at Carnegie Hall in January 2010 to present the New York premiere of The Planets—An HD Odyssey and will return on May 7, 2012, to participate in Carnegie’s Spring for Music Festival. Internationally, Graf conducts in the foremost concert halls of Europe, Japan and Australia. In October 2010, he led the Houston Symphony on a tour of the UK to present the international premiere of The Planets—An HD Odyssey. He has participated in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bregenz, Aix en Provence and Salzburg Festivals. His U.S. festival appearances include Tanglewood, Blossom Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and the Grant Park Music Festival in downtown Chicago. An experienced opera conductor, Graf first conducted the Vienna State Opera in 1981 and has since led productions in the opera houses of Berlin, Munich, Paris and Rome, including several world premieres. Recent engagements include Parsifal at the Zurich Opera and Boris Godunov at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg. Born in 1949 near Linz, Graf studied violin and piano as a child. He earned diplomas in piano and conducting from the Musikhochschule in Graz and continued his studies with Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Arvid Jansons. His career was launched in 1979 when he was awarded first prize at the Karl Böhm Competition. His extensive discography includes recordings with the Houston Symphony, available through houstonsymphony.org: works by Bartók and Stravinsky, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, Berg’s Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite, a DVD of The Planets—An HD Odyssey and most recently, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Graf has been awarded the Chevalier de l’ordre de la Legion d’Honneur by the French government for championing French music around the world and the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria. Hans and Margarita Graf have homes in Salzburg and Houston. They have one daughter, Anna, who lives in Vienna.
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Eric Larson Double bass
Julie Thayer Horn
Welcome to Jones Hall and to the Houston Symphony! While this month’s exciting lineup of concerts marks the end of our subscription season, the summer will bring a whole new array of music! We will continue to perform a variety of concerts all over Houston and (air conditioned!) Jones Hall, and you can read all about our full schedule of activities on pages 18 and 19. Also this summer, we are very excited to be representing Houston and the United States at the Festival of the World’s Symphony Orchestras in Moscow, Russia, on June 8 and 9! We’re joining an exclusive group of great American orchestras that have performed in Russia, and we look forward to building bridges between our cultures with the language of music. While we stay pretty busy with the orchestra during the summer, we want to share with you what we do when we’re not performing with the Houston Symphony: Julie Thayer: “I’ll perform on the Fontana Chamber Music series; I’m looking forward to playing great music with great friends, which is what chamber music is all about. I also love having time to practice only what I want to play. I dig up old etude books, play Bach cello suites, spend entire days working on random horn skills like lip trills...the freedom is important to my health as a musician.”
Adam Dinitz Oboe and English horn
Brinton Averil Smith Principal cello
Eric Larson: “When I am not playing with the orchestra in the summer, I will spend my time teaching at two summer music festivals, The Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston and the Wabass Institute in Wabash, Indiana, helping to train young musicians for careers in orchestral performance.”
Adam Dinitz: “In past summers, I’ve performed at music festivals like the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and with the Cleveland Orchestra, but it is also valuable for me to spend a bit of time away from my instrument. When I return in the fall, I feel renewed and approach my playing with a fresh start.” Brinton Smith: “I am looking forward to performing at the Aspen Music Festival. Although it is a working vacation, the festival is where I was first inspired to become a musician. My family and I love the town as well, which in August seems to be largely made up of Houstonians anyway!” As you can see, even when we are away from the Symphony, we never leave music far behind, and always have the goal of returning as better musicians when we play those first notes of opening night for you. We look forward to seeing all of you at our concerts in June and July and wish you a wonderful summer! www.houstonsymphony.org
Letter to Patrons................................................................................................ Photo by bruce bennett
Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO Photo by jenny antill
Phoebe & Bobby Tudor
With this month’s cover, we are celebrating the contributions of Bobby and Phoebe Tudor. For the past three years, Bobby has provided exceptional leadership as the Symphony’s Board President – a period that has included concerts in Houston, New York, Florida and the United Kingdom; two HD Odyssey multi-media projects; and a range of community partnerships with Holocaust Museum Houston, NASA, Rice University, University of Houston, Houston Public Media, Anti-Defamation League, City of Houston, Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Congregation Beth Israel, Sugar Land Baptist Church, Grace Community Church, area youth orchestras and schools and many other organizations. As a couple, Bobby and Phoebe became founding members of the Ima Hogg Society and made an extraordinary $1 million gift to the Houston Symphony’s Sustainability campaign. Their philanthropic leadership has inspired others in the Symphony family and has been key to our institution’s growth. As President, Bobby has stressed the importance of growing artistic quality and community engagement while building a strong financial foundation. Incoming Board President Bob Peiser and I extend our deepest thanks to Bobby and Phoebe even as we look forward to their continued involvement! As the Houston Symphony approaches its 100th season, we are honored to have Bobby and Phoebe as Honorary Centennial Chairs and as chairs of the 2013 Symphony Ball. We will also be honoring the Tudors during the annual Maestro’s Wine Dinner on May 20. As we enter the final month of the 2012-13 season, we are excited to announce our next international tour! On June 8 and 9, Hans Graf will lead the Houston Symphony in two performances in Moscow as a part of the 7th Annual Festival of the World’s Symphony Orchestras. The Houston Symphony will be the first-ever American orchestra to participate in the festival, which is known as the highlight of the Moscow musical season. Please stay tuned for reports from Russia! Also in June is our annual Ima Hogg Competition. This year, there are 10 semi-finalists from as far away as Russia and Taiwan who will perform concertos for piano, violin, flute, harp and marimba. Don’t miss the exciting finals concert with the Houston Symphony on Saturday, June 2, at Stude Concert Hall at Rice University. As we near the end of the season, we are also closer to achieving important financial goals. When we raise $9 million from 5,000 donors by May 31, Houston Endowment will award the Symphony a second $1 million challenge grant. If you have not already considered a gift to the Annual Fund, please do so today. This funding will help enrich the lives thousands of Houstonians and inspire the next generation of musicians and audiences. A gift of any amount counts towards the challenge and can easily be made at www.houstonsymphony. org/annualfund.
May 2012
Program
Recording: Vladimir Spivakov conducting the Moscow Virtuosi (Capriccio)
Thursday, May 3, 2012 8 pm Friday, May 4, 2012 8 pm Jones Hall Monday, May 7, 2012 7:30 pm Carnegie Hall
Instrumentation: two oboes, two horns, percussion, piano and strings The act of being publicly censured twice in his career had a devastating effect upon Dmitri Shostakovich. Pravda’s 1936 condemnation of his opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, after Josef Stalin witnessed a performance of the work, left Shostakovich in fear for his life. Twelve years later, at the First Congress of USSR Composers, party function-
Two Faces of Shostakovich Hans Graf, conductor Mikhail Svetlov, bass Anti-Formalist Rayok
INTERMISSION Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Opus 103 (The Year 1905) I The Palace Square: Adagio— II The Ninth of January: Allegro— III In Memoriam: Adagio— IV The Tocsin: Allegro non troppo Hans Graf’s biography appears on page 8. Total Gold Classics Series
Friday evening’s appearance by Mikhail Svetlov is supported in part by Leslie Barry Davidson and W. Robins Brice. The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham. These concerts are being recorded for future broadcast on Classical 91.7 FM, the Radio Voice of the Houston Symphony and Classical Season Media Sponsor. These performances will be repeated as part of the Houston Symphony’s 2012 Carnegie Hall Tour when the Symphony appears as part of Carnegie Hall’s 2nd annual Spring for Music Festival. The Houston Symphony gives special thanks to the consortium of donors whose generosity has made our 16th visit to Carnegie Hall possible: Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Mrs. Marie T. Bosarge Spec’s Charitable Foundation George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Monzer Hourani, Medistar Corporation Beth Madison Nancy & Robert Peiser Mr. Gary V. Beauchamp & Ms. Marian Wilfert Beauchamp Captain & Mrs. W. A. “Cappy” Bisso III Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Gene & Linda Dewhurst Houston First Corporation Allen & Almira Gelwick – Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse J. LeGrange 10 www.houstonsymphony.org
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ANTI-FORMALIST RAYOK Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Arranged by: Vladimir Milman
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.................................................................................................................... ary Andrei Zhadnov’s censure of his music for its Western-style recourse to “formalism” cost him a forced recantation, the loss of his teaching positions at the Moscow and Leningrad conservatories and the loss of numerous performances of his music. This time, a secret plan of revenge emerged in Shostakovich’s mind. He began sketching a satirical little cantata lampooning those who had trampled upon his reputation. During this repressive era in Soviet musical circles, his little parody was intended only “for the drawer”—secretly shelved in Shostakovich’s desk, like many of his most serious works. But in 1957, when Dmitri Shepilov, Central Committee representative at a Second Congress of Soviet Composers, mispronounced RimskyKorsakov’s name, Shostakovich’s creative bile was roused to engage his friend, the writer Lev Lebedinsky, to assist in fashioning a libretto for the satire. Though the work was largely completed at that time, Shostakovich wrote a finale on an unknown date in the 1960s. It apparently received a few private performances for his close friends, but was not publicly performed until 1989, when an incomplete manuscript reached Mstislav Rostropovich in Washington, D.C., long after Shostakovich’s death. His Kennedy Center premiere was followed by performances in New York and the complete work in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on the 83rd anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth, September 25, 1989. The title, Anti-formalist Rayok, is thought to derive from a satirical song by Modest Mussorgsky, also titled Rayok. A rough translation of “rayok” is “little paradise,” and may carry the further meaning of the upper balcony in a theater—a place where irreverent works are most likely to be appreciated. Though the score was originally composed for four basses, Shostakovich permitted it to be performed as is done at this performance—by a single bass soloist who merely changes characters representing the Chairman, Yedinitsin (Stalin), Dvoikin (Zhadnov) and Troikin (Shepilov), implying that they and the small chorus of Musical Functionaries all mouth the same party line. The original piano accompaniment is replaced by a chamber-orchestra arrangement provided by Milman. The simple musical score becomes progressively more hilarious, moving from a bumptious march for the Chairman to a take-off on “Suliko,” Stalin’s favorite folksong, then through a series of pompous vocal cadenzas (Yedinitsin) and dance tunes for the other characters, and ending with a raucous can-can when they all decide to dance.
Auditorium, Houston; EMI Classics, #65206 (CD and MP3); also available on Urania, #114 Instrumentation: three flutes (third doubling piccolo), three oboes (third doubling English horn), three clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), three bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, percussion, two harps, celesta and strings More than anything, the Shostakovich symphonies stand as great moral documents of music in the former Soviet Union. Once decried as facile, exhibitionistic statements by musi-
cal scholars and critics in the Western hemisphere, they have become objects of sober study and intense interest in the years following the prolific composer’s death. Six of the 15 symphonies carry descriptive subtitles directly relating to major events in the history of revolution, violence and death that marked the lives of Soviet citizens. Several of the remaining nine symphonies are widely attributed as having hidden meanings associated with the repression and fear Russian people experienced, including Shostakovich himself. Symphony No. 11, subtitled The Year 1905,
SYMPHONY NO. 11 IN G MINOR, OPUS 103 (THE YEAR 1905) First commercial recording: Leopold Stokowski conducting the Houston Symphony, April 1958, City May 2012 11
Notes continued........................................................................................... was composed in 1957 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Politically, it was a time when Shostakovich had been rehabilitated, following two periods of severe public censure under Josef Stalin’s rule in 1936 and 1948. Stalin had been dead for four years, and it was a period of relative calm in the composer’s life. Nevertheless, his normally fertile imagination and prolific talent seemed to have momentarily dried up, and he appeared to be turning out a number of superficial, politically ingratiating scores—at least according to accusations coming from Western ears during those Cold
War years. Shostakovich’s recourse to popular revolutionary and prison songs for use as thematic material was especially decried in the West, but he won praise in Soviet society for choosing accessible, well-known melodies as the basis for a symphony. Overtly, the symphony deals with the failed Russian revolution of 1905 and the horrifying massacre that greeted oppressed workers and peasants who filled the square fronting the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, delivering a peaceful petition to the Tsar to relieve their suffering. Instead, they were fired upon by
palace guards on that morning of January 22 (January 9 according to the Russian calendar still in use at the time), which became known as “Bloody Sunday.” However, the symphony was composed the year after the abortive Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and statements attributed to Shostakovich have led some scholars to claim that the prison songs he used as themes in the symphony also secretly excoriated the Soviet regime for its parallel massacre of Hungarian citizens. The symphony is divided into four descriptive movements, set in a slow/fast/slow/fast plan and played without interruption. The eerie opening movement, “The Palace Square,” offers a bleak, chilling tonal picture of the site in a series of hushed string-orchestra phrases, interleaved with several important thematic motives. A little motto heard in the timpani becomes a recurrent theme unifying the whole symphony. A soft trumpet fanfare conveys the notion of reveille or a distant muster for the palace guards. Finally, the flute enters quoting the tune of the first prison song, “Listen.” The second movement, “The Ninth of January,” depicts the actual massacre and begins with the somber tune of “Bare Your Heads,” taken from Shostakovich’s 1951 choral setting of Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets. This movement rises to a fever pitch, vividly describing the sound of gunfire in percussive outbursts from the side drum and the confusion of battle in a fugal passage based on the opening thematic motto. When the fury of the movement has exhausted itself, Shostakovich surveys the carnage in a chilling epilogue recalling the main themes of both movements in the celesta, harp, a lonely flute duet, distant trumpet fanfares, and the recurrent motto theme in a muffled timpani statement. Muted violas state the melody of a new song, “You Fell as Victims,” in the sad, resolute funeral march that forms the third movement. At the center of the movement, the music rises to a huge, defiant climax, and then gradually subsides as it flows into the finale, “The Tocsin.” Its opening theme is quickly swept up in a bristling, vengeful allegro of immense power, typifying Shostakovich’s talent in building enormous musical structures from mere scraps of material. When its fury has been spent, the coda begins with a long, lonely English horn solo that is followed by a last, furiously defiant orchestral blast, powered by clanging church bells at the very end. ©2012, Carl R. Cunningham
Biography................... Mikhail Svetlov, bass
Metropolitan Opera bass Mikhail Svetlov is known for his outstanding acting abilContinued on page 23 12 www.houstonsymphony.org
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SYMPHONY NO. 31 IN D MAJOR, K.297 (PARIS) Wolfgang Amadè Mozart (1756-1791)
Fidelity Investments Classical Series Friday, May 11, 2012 8 pm Saturday, May 12, 2012 8 pm Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:30 pm Jones Hall
Totally Mozart Hans Graf, conductor Albina Shagimuratova, soprano Rian Craypo, bassoon Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major, K.297 (Paris) I Allegro assai II Andante III Allegro Mozart Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!, K.418 Mozart Bella mia fiamma . . . Resta, oh cara, K.528 INTERMISSION Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, K.191 I Allegro II Andante ma Adagio III Rondo: Tempo di Menuetto Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major, K.504 (Prague) I Adagio—Allegro II Andante III Presto Hans Graf’s biography appears on page 8. Shell Favorite Masters Series Totally Mozart is generously supported in part by The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts in honor of Katherine Cullen Burton. Albina Shagimuratova’s performances with the Houston Symphony are generously supported by Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Long. This weekend’s performances are generously supported in part by Andrews Kurth LLP. The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham. The printed music for Mozart’s Bella mia fiamma...Resta, oh cara was donated by Mr. Gary L. Clark. The printed music for Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major was donated by Dr. Philip D. Scott and Dr. Susan E. Gardner. The printed music for Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D major was donated by Charles and Naomi Black, in memory of Alan Ryder and Charles and Althea Black. The Houston Symphony currently records under its own label, Houston Symphony Media Productions, and for Naxos. Houston Symphony recordings also are available on the Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and Koch International Classics labels. These concerts are being recorded for future broadcast on Classical 91.7 FM, the Radio Voice of the Houston Symphony and Classical Season Media Sponsor.
Recording: Sir Charles Mackerras conducting the Prague Chamber Orchestra (Telarc) Instrumentation: pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets, timpani and strings In 1777-78, the 21-year-old Mozart made a fruitless journey to Munich, Augsburg, Mannheim and Paris in search of employment. Not only did he fail in his quest for a musical appointment in southern Germany or France, he lost his mother who had been sent along to chaperone him but died during their stay in Paris. This reckless, expensive trip might have been written off as a total loss, were it not for a few bold masterpieces, like the Paris Symphony, that resulted from it. Artistically, the trip brought Mozart into contact with the big, brilliant virtuoso orchestras in Mannheim and Paris, and this provided a wonderful creative stimulus he had not encountered in provincial Salzburg. In his letters, Mozart tended to belittle Parisian tastes for noisy, ostentatious orchestral music, but with typical ingenuity, he catered to those tastes by providing his French audience one of his most extroverted symphonies. The thunderous timpani part and sweeping scale passages that dominate the opening of the symphony attest to the bold character of the music. But there are other traits that subtly imply Mozart’s deference to Parisian tastes. The texture of the music is relatively transparent, lacking the contrapuntal involvement that stems from German and Austrian musical traditions. And there is an aura of sweetness, delicacy and frivolity about subsidiary themes in the first movement that honors French tastes of the period. It also marked Mozart’s first use of clarinets in this medium, adopting a Mannheim/Paris novelty of that period. The symphony’s leisurely pastoral slow movement became the center of controversy when Joseph Le Gros, the director of the Concert Spirituel series where the symphony was performed, objected to its length. In order to placate him, Mozart wrote an alternate slow movement after the premiere, although the original movement is customarily performed today. While Mozart privately mocked the vaunted French orchestral tradition of beginning a movement with perfectly synchronized bow strokes (the so-called “premier coup d’archet”), he decided to surprise the audience while testing the abilities of French orchestral musicians. Thus, the final movement opens quietly with a running figure in the second violins, accompanied by a tricky May 2012 13
Notes continued................................................................................................... syncopated figure in the first violins. Suddenly the whole orchestra erupts into action, with the entire string section racing off in unison. VORREI SPIEGARVI, OH DIO!, K.418 Recording: Natalie Dessay, soprano; Theodor Guschlbauer conducting the Lyon National Opera Orchestra (Virgin Classics) Instrumentation: pairs of oboes, bassoons and horns and strings Mozart composed “Vorrei spiegarvi” in 1783 as a substitute aria for his sister-in-law, soprano Aloysia Weber Lange, to sing in Pasquale Anfossi’s comic opera, The Indiscreet Snoop. Though the insertion was apparently done honorably with Anfossi’s permission, Mozart had to demand that an explanation be printed in the program book, to quell malicious gossip about the circumstances. The plot and the text deal with a girl who outwits her fiancé by rejecting the courtship of his friend, who was sent by her fiancé to test her fidelity. The work itself is a lovely lyric aria with some very high melodic peaks and a tasteful accompaniment punctuated by some very decorative oboe solos. BELLA MIA FIAMMA . . . RESTA, OH CARA, K.528 Recording: Kiri Te Kanawa with Gyorgy Fischer conducting the Vienna Chamber Orchestra (Decca) Instrumentation: flute, pairs of oboes, bassoons, horns and strings
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Instrumentation: pairs of oboes, horns and strings Mozart’s charming Bassoon Concerto holds the distinction of being the first of his numerous concertos for wind instruments and one of the earliest of his concertos for any solo instrument. It was preceded only by the first of Mozart’s original piano concertos (K.175) and two concerted works for one or more violins. The concerto is dated June 4, 1774, and was evidently composed for one of the two bassoonists in the court orchestra maintained by the prince/archbishop of Salzburg. Despite Mozart’s youth (he was only 18 when he composed it), the concerto shows his awareness of the bassoon’s capabilities and its special requirements when placed as a soloist in front of an orchestra. The solo line takes advantage of the nimble bassoon’s ability to make large leaps and to play very florid scale passages with perfect ease. On the other hand, its tone is very light, and Mozart adapted to this limitation by scaling back the orchestra’s wind section to a pair of oboes and horns, and largely confining their use to those passages where the soloist is not featured. The concerto’s thematic content relates very much to the galant style of Mozart’s early musical output. The opening movement is a neatly designed sonata form, with the orchestra presenting all the themes before the soloist enters. The slow movement features a poignant duet between the bassoon and a muted solo violin, set in a sonatina form with no real central development section. The scintillating finale anticipates a French rondeau form found in some of Mozart’s early concertos for piano and violin. Though not given that specific label, it is laid out in a series of refrains separated by couplets that present variants on its thematic material. SYMPHONY NO. 38 IN D MAJOR, K.504 (PRAGUE) Recording: Trevor Pinnock conducting the English Concert (Archiv Production) Instrumentation: pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns and trumpets, timpani and strings Though Mozart’s last years in Vienna were marked by increasing neglect, poverty and finally illness, he was simultaneously a beloved and celebrated musical personality in nearby Prague. His opera, Le nozze di Figaro, had a limited run in Vienna in 1786, but it took the Bohemian capital by storm later that year, prompting commissions for two other operas,
Don Giovanni in 1787 and La clemenza di Tito in 1791. Mozart was invited to Prague to attend a performance of Figaro toward the beginning of 1787. He had just completed the Symphony K.504 in D major the preceding month and decided to take it along. As part of the festivities celebrating his visit, he conducted the premiere of the new symphony in Prague’s National Theater on January 19. Several things set the Prague Symphony apart from most Mozart symphonies. It is his only mature three-movement symphony and was known in his lifetime as “the symphony without a minuet.” It is one of four successive symphonies in which he prefaced the opening movement with a slow introduction (the others are Number 36, Number 39 and the socalled “Symphony Number 37”—actually a symphony by Michael Haydn for which Mozart composed a slow introduction). The Prague Symphony is also regarded as a more contrapuntal work than Mozart’s previous symphonies, as well as being more serious in its nature. The somber, imposing D minor introduction, offers a foretaste of the Don Giovanni score he composed for his Prague audiences later that year, and the texture of the entire symphony is thickly woven with contrapuntal ideas and thematic motives that constantly dovetail one another. All three movements are in sonata form, and all three are especially rich in thematic ideas. And although the Symphony No. 38 was not intentionally composed for an orchestra in Prague, its notably prominent, colorful wind parts were especially suited to the superior talents of Bohemian wind players in the late 18th century. The massed wind chords that Mozart periodically sounded in the development and recapitulation of the third movement are a prime example of the boldness of his wind orchestration in this symphony. ©2012, Carl R. Cunningham
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Mozart composed this aria in Prague, just a few days after the premiere of Don Giovanni in the fall of 1787. During preparations and the first performances for the opera, the Mozarts were houseguests of noted Bohemian soprano Josephine Duschek and her husband. Though the text was intended for a male singer and the aria was composed for a bass voice, Duschek persuaded Mozart to let her perform it. The text comes from the opera, Ceres Appeased, by Stuttgart composer Niccolò Jommelli, in which the ancient Greek goddess breaks up a romance between her daughter, Proserpina, and the earthling, Titano, forcing him to sacrifice his life. Mozart set the words in the most elevated manner of the time. An emotional declamatory recitative is followed by a two-part aria, beginning with a plaintive slow cavatina that contains many perilous vocal leaps and expressive chromatic tones. It is followed by a faster, vocally brilliant cabaletta as the doomed lover rushes off to slay himself in the temple.
Abbado conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon)
Albina Shagimuratova, soprano
Dazzling Russian coloratura soprano Albina Shagimuratova first gained attention as
..................................................................................................................... Gold Medal winner in the 2007 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. A recent graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, she has sung both the Queen of the Night and Musetta with the company to great acclaim. Other roles in Houston have included the Sandman and Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel in a production by celebrated puppeteer Basil Twist. She made her European operatic debut as Mozart’s Queen of the Night at the Salzburg Festival in 2008. As today’s reigning Queen of the Night, Shagimuratova makes her San Francisco Opera debut in The Magic Flute during summer 2012. She performed her signature role in concert at the Lucerne Festival and in productions at the Wiener Staatsoper and the Gran Teatro del Liceu. Also at the Wiener Staatsoper this season, she makes her role debut as Adina in Otto Schenk’s production of L’elisir d’amore, sings Musetta in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La bohème, and appears in recital. She returned to the Bolshoi Opera in Ruslan and Ludmilla and to Houston Grand Opera in La traviata. In 2004, Shagimuratova became a member of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theater. She has sung the Swan in The Tale of Tsar Saltan and the Queen of Shemakha in The Golden Cockerel of Rimsky-Korsakov. Her extensive orchestral experience includes solo performances in the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini and Fauré. In 2005, she sang Mozart’s Requiem in the opening concert of the famed December Nights of Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow. She has also sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. Born in Tashkent, USSR, Shagimuratova began her musical studies as a pianist and attended the Music College Auhadeez in Kazan and later Kazan State University where she received a degree in vocal and opera performance. Her later studies were at the Moscow Conservatory, where she graduated with honors and completed her doctoral work in 2007.
in Virginia, she moved to Texas at 10 months of age and grew up east of Austin on a small farm. After studying at the University of Texas at Austin with Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Craypo attended Rice University, where she received her master’s degree under former Houston Symphony principal bassoonist Benjamin Kamins. Craypo’s versatility as a performer has led to appearances in a variety of roles in the United States and abroad. In 2001, she was awarded a Federation of German/American Clubs Scholarship, which led to a year of study
and performances in Germany. She was a finalist in the Gillet-Fox Bassoon Competition in 2004 and 2006. She and her husband, Sean, have two children, a dog who pretends she’s a cat and a large garden.
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Craypo Rian Craypo, bassoon
Principal bassoonist Rian Craypo has been with the Houston Symphony since 2007. Born May 2012 15
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ES IST GENUG Melody by: J. R. Ahle Arranged by: J. S. Bach (1685-1750) Instrumentation: Sung by unaccompanied fourpart chorus. The chorale concluding Bach’s Cantata Number 60 is a seraphic piece, accepting death in a spirit of peace and trust in God. It is also one of the most forward-looking melodies Bach ever harmonized, because its melody line threatens to soar beyond the standard tonal system Bach and generations of his successors employed. This melody was originally composed as a hymn by the Mülhausen-based composer, Johann Rudolf Ahle (1625-1673). It has fascinated composers and musical scholars ever since, and it became uniquely well qualified to serve as a musical tribute to the young woman Alban Berg memorialized in the final movement of his tonally advanced Violin Concerto more than 200 years later. VIOLIN CONCERTO Alban Berg (1885-1935) Recording: Vladimir Spivakov, with James Conlon conducting the Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra (Capriccio) Instrumentation: two flutes (both alternating on piccolo), two oboes (second alternating on English horn), three clarinets (third alternating on alto saxophone), bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones, bass tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings A young Russian-American violinist owed his fame to his initiative in commissioning one of the most noteworthy violin concertos of the 20th century. Though Louis Krasner had emigrated to America with his parents in 1908 and was trained at the New England Conservatory, he traveled and performed in Europe and continued his studies in Vienna during the early 1930s. While visiting there, he heard Alban Berg’s first opera, Wozzeck, and was overwhelmed by the experience. Judging Berg to be the most lyrical of Vienna’s three 12-tone composers, Krasner approached him with the offer of a commission for a violin concerto in 1934. The moment was ripe, since Berg was suddenly suffering severe financial and artistic reverses under the encroaching power of the Nazi government in neighboring Germany. But he hesitated to accept the commission, telling Krasner he was a young performer just beginning his career. “What you require for your programs are brilliant compositions by Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps,” Berg said. “You know, that is not my kind of music.” Krasner 16 www.houstonsymphony.org
Fidelity Investments Classical Series Thursday, May 17, 2012 8 pm Saturday, May 19, 2012 8 pm Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:30 pm Jones Hall
Carmina Burana Hans Graf, conductor Frank Huang, violin *Sherezade Panthaki, soprano *Marc Molomot, tenor Hugh Russell, baritone Houston Symphony Chorus Charles Hausmann, director J. R. Ahle/J. S. Bach Es ist genug Berg Violin Concerto I Andante—Allegretto II Allegro—Adagio INTERMISSION Orff Carmina burana Fortuna imperatrix mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) 1 O Fortuna: Pesante— 2 Fortune plango vulnera I. Primo vere (In Springtime) 3 Veris leta facies— 4 Omnia Sol temperat— 5 Ecce gratum: Con ampiezza—Quasi allegretto Uf dem Anger (On the Green) 6 Tanz: Pesante— 7 Floret silva— 8 Chramer, gip die varwe dir: Quasi andante— 9 Reie: Andante poco esitante— Swaz hie gat umbe: Allegro molto— Chume, chum geselle min— Swaz hie gat umbe: A tempo come prima— 10 Were diu werlt alle min: Allegro molto II. In taberna (In the Tavern) 11 Estuans interius: Allegro molto— 12 Olim lacus colueram— 13 Ego sum abbas— 14 In taberna quando sumus
Program III. Cour d’amours (The Court of Love) 15 Amor volat undique: Largo— 16 Dies, nox et omnia— 17 Stetit puella— 18 Circa mea pectora— 19 Si puer cum puellula: Allegro buffo— 20 Veni, veni, venias: Allegro— 21 In trutina— 22 Tempus est iocundum: Allegro molto— 23 Dulcissime— Blanziflor et Helena (Blanziflor and Helena) 24 Ave formosissima— Fortuna imperatrix mundi 25 O Fortuna: Pesante *Houston Symphony debut Hans Graf’s biography appears on page 8. Carmina Burana is generously supported in part by: Margaret Alkek Williams Betty and Jesse Tutor and Helen and James Shaffer Vinson & Elkins LLP Saturday’s concert is generously supported in part by Brett and Erin Busby. Sunday’s concert is generously supported in part by Dr. Margaret Waisman and Dr. Steven S. Callahan. The SoundPlusVision series is generously supported by Margaret Alkek Williams and The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Endowed Fund for Creative Initiatives, part of the Houston Symphony Endowment. The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham. The conductor’s scores for Orff’s Carmina Burana were donated by Ms. Kelly Reynolds in memory of her grandparents: Fisher and Hazel Reynolds, Rosa Brand, Roy Callaway, Rubin Brand, and Miles and Elaine Strickland. The choral parts for Orff’s Carmina Burana were donated by Ms. Melanie S. Wiggins. The Houston Symphony currently records under its own label, Houston Symphony Media Productions, and for Naxos. Houston Symphony recordings also are available on the Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and Koch International Classics labels. These concerts are being recorded for future broadcast on Classical 91.7 FM, the Radio Voice of the Houston Symphony and Classical Season Media Sponsor.
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2012 Summer Concert Preview....................................................................... Community Concerts
Sounds Like Fun!
2012 Ima Hogg Competition Stude Concert Hall - Rice University
Semi-Final round
Finals Concert
Saturday, June 2, 7 pm Daniel Hege, conductor
Thursday, May 31, 9 am-4 pm Tickets: FREE
Tickets: Students: $10, Seniors: $15 and General Admission: $25
This summer, the Houston Symphony comes to your neighborhood and continues its commitment to the community with its annual Sounds Like Fun! series. These FREE performances are relaxed, dynamic and designed for the whole family. Visit houstonsymphony.org for information about dates and locations.
Houston Chronicle Dollar Concert
Sunday, July 15, 7:30 pm Jones Hall Thomas Søndergård, conductor Gold Medalist, 2012 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition Join the Houston Symphony and the winner of the 2012 Ima Hogg Competition for a special one-night only performance. Program to include: Shostakovich Tchaikovsky
Festive Overture Symphony No. 4
ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre
100 Concert Drive, Hermann Park Houston, TX 77030 For more information, call (281) 373-3386 or visit milleroutdoortheatre.com. For more than six decades, the Houston Symphony has thrilled Houstonians with live performances at Miller Outdoor Theatre. Sponsored in part by the City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board, these concerts are FREE and open to the public. Hear the world’s greatest classical music under the stars on June 15, 16, 22 and 23. Plus, join us on the 4th of July for the annual Star-Spangled Salute Concert. Details are below. For more information, please visit www.houstonsymphony.org.
Star-Spangled Salute
Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 8:30 pm Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor Jonathan Beedle & AJ Swearingen, vocalists Half & Half Saxophone Quartet (Fidelity Young Artist Competition Winners) Mitchell Brackett, Oscar Gonzalez, Zachary Martinez and Chase Skweres Enjoy an evening with Michael Krajewski and the Houston Symphony listening to patriotic, toe-tapping music. We’ll tip our hats to the London Olympics and welcome Jonathan Beedle & AJ Swearingen, who perform an outstanding tribute to the iconic duo, Simon & Garfunkel. Make sure to stay for the booming cannons in the 1812 Overture and wonder at the magnificent firework display provided by the City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board. An annual tradition not to be missed! Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 7:30 pm Seven Lakes High School, Katy Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 11:00 am Miller Outdoor Theatre Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 7:30 pm The Centrum, Spring Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 11:00 am Pershing Middle School Thursday, June 28, 2012, 7:30 pm The Church Without Walls Saturday, June 30 2012, 7:30 pm St. Bernadette Church, Nassau Bay
Program to include:
Kabalevsky Overture Pathétique Sibelius Suite from Karelia Beethoven Overture to Egmont Márquez Conga del Fuego Nuevo Anderson Chicken Reel Barber Overture to The School for Scandal Offenbach Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann D. A. Earnest Turbulence J. Williams Flying Theme from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Puccini/ Viva Puccini R. Wendel Sounds Like Fun! concerts are funded in part by grants from Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Sounds Like Fun! is also sponsored by: CenterPoint Energy, ExxonMobil, Randalls Food Markets, Inc. and Swift Energy Company.
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Symphony Summer in the City The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses
Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7
7:30 pm 7:30 pm
Jones Hall Jones Hall
For tickets: (713) 224-7575
Eímear Noone, conductor houstonsymphony.org Houston Symphony Chorus Charles Hausmann, director Featuring dynamic and compelling video on a large screen accompanied by a live symphony orchestra, “The Legend of Zelda™: Symphony of the Goddesses” brings the world’s most popular video game series to life! Enjoy original music spanning 25 years of adventure from the celebrated Zelda franchise, uniting music and visuals in a way never before realized. Every performance to date of “The Legend of Zelda™: Symphony of the Goddesses” has sold out far in advance. Don’t miss your opportunity to get great seats early! Tickets from: $35
Three Dog Night
Friday, July 13 7:30 pm Jones Hall Larry Baird, conductor Legendary music icons and Grammy®-nominated band, Three Dog Night, celebrates their fourth decade in popular music. Hear founding members Cory Wells and Danny Hutton on lead vocals, as well as original keyboardist Jimmy Greenspoon and guitarist Michael Allsup perform their greatest hits like “Mama Told Me (Not To Come),” “Joy to the World,” “Black and White,” “Shambala” and “One.” Tickets from: $29
Wizard of Oz—Film with Live Orchestra Saturday, July 21 7:30 pm Jones Hall
Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor Travel down the yellow brick road with the Houston Symphony! See one of the most beloved films of all time on a giant screen above the orchestra, stunningly re-mastered by Warner Bros. The vibrantly restored images are accompanied by full symphony orchestra playing entirely new transcriptions of Harold Arlen’s brilliant original scores. Hear Judy Garland backed by lush, live orchestration which will transport children and adults alike. With this version of The Wizard of Oz on the big screen, moviegoers will be treated to the Oscar-winning film as it has never been seen before. Tickets from: $25
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Orbit—An HD Odyssey Plus Star Wars & More!
Saturday, July 28 7:30 pm Jones Hall Duncan Copp, producer/director Join us for a special encore performance of the second film in our HD Odyssey series. With striking images taken from NASA missions to Earth’s orbit and accompanied by J. Adams “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” and Strauss’ epic tone poem “Also sprach Zarathustra,” this must-see multimedia event combines the latest HD images of the Earth projected on a giant screen. Plus, enjoy the music from Star Wars and more! Tickets from: $25
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CARMINA BURANA Carl Orff (1895-1982) Recording: Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Choruses, with soprano Judith Blegen, tenor Kenneth Riegel and baritone Peter Binder as soloists (Sony) Instrumentation: three flutes (second and third alternating on piccolo), three oboes, (third doubling English horn), three clarinets (one doubling E-flat clarinet) (one doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, two pianos and strings A baron, sent to oversee the secularization of the Benedictine monastery at Beuron in Bavaria in 1803, discovered a manuscript collection of some 250 poems and put it in his luggage to read on the trip home to Munich. He duly deposited it in the Bavarian Court Library, where it rested peacefully until 1846. Then, the court librarian published it in a modern edition called Carmina Burana (Lyric Poetry of Beuron.) Nearly another 90 years passed before Orff noticed the fourth edition of the collection listed in the catalog of a Würzburg second-hand bookseller in 1934. Selecting and grouping these poems into four tableaux, he completed his throbbing choral/orchestral setting two years later, and the work scored an instant hit at its staged premiere in Frankfurt in 1937. During the late Middle Ages, many young Europeans aspired to improve their station in life by entering a monastery or university. But those who were unsuited for either a religious or intellectual life dropped out and became wandering, dissolute, often embittered “goliards.” Medieval scholar Lynn Sebesta speculates that the term might have come from the word gula (gluttony) or might have been taken from the name of the biblical monster, Goliath. The poems they wrote, including those chosen by Orff, are a linguistic mixture of Latin, old French and German. The content of the texts is, at times, sensual and erotic. At other times, it reflects debauchery and irreverent parodies of the religious life the goliards abandoned, along with a fatalistic attitude about their current existence. Above all, their submission to the whims of chance is exemplified in the opening and closing poems acknowledging the goddess, Fortuna, who spins them to the height of power on her fateful Ferris wheel, then dashes them to the ground as their spoke on the wheel passes its crest. ©2012, Carl R. Cunningham
Frank Huang, violin
First Prize winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Violin Competition and the 2000 International Violin Competition Hannover, Frank Huang has established a major career as a violin virtuoso. At age 11, he performed with the Houston Symphony in a nationally broadcast concert and has since performed with orchestras throughout the world, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Hannover, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra and the Genoa Youth Orchestra. He has performed on NPR’s Performance Today, ABC’s Good Morning America and CNN’s American Morning with Paula Zahn. Huang’s first commercial recording, comprising Fantasies by Schubert, Ernst, Schoenberg and Waxman, was released on Naxos in 2003. He has had great success in competitions since age 15 with top prize awards in the International Violin Competition “Premio Paganini” and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He also received Gold Medal awards in the Kingsville International String Competition, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition and the D’Angelo International Competition. Recent concerts include debuts in Wigmore Hall (London), Salle Cortot (Paris), Kennedy Center (Washington), Herbst Theatre (San Francisco) and his second recital in New York’s Alice Tully Hall that featured the world premiere of Donald Martino’s Sonata for Solo Violin. In addition to his solo career, Huang is deeply committed to chamber music. He has attended the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, The Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival and the Caramoor Music Festival; he frequently participates in Musicians from Marlboro tours. He was selected by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be a member of the prestigious Chamber Music II program. Before joining the Houston Symphony, Huang held the position of first violinist of the Grammy® Award-winning Ying Quartet and was a faculty
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trast in a series of broken-chord passages that outline various triadic harmonies while ingeniously setting forth the 12-tone row upon which the concerto is based.
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diplomatically countered that Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart also wrote significant violin concertos, none of which were composed in the showy virtuoso idiom. After considering the matter while Krasner enlisted the support of Berg’s publisher and friends, the composer reluctantly agreed to the proposal, warning the young violinist that the process of composing the concerto would be long and arduous. Then, just as Mozart set aside his never-to-be-completed Requiem to accept a commission for an opera, Berg set aside his never-to-becompleted opera, Lulu, to accept Krasner’s commission for his Violin Concerto. But as Berg’s biographer, Mosco Carner, has pointed out, the idea of an abstract instrumental concerto was initially slow in coming, because Berg was a composer of dramatic music and needed a human element to inspire him. Fortuitously, that element suddenly came with the lamented death on April 22, 1935, of Manon Gropius, the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler Gropius. The girl had contracted poliomyelitis the preceding year, leaving her legs paralyzed. Berg was suddenly inspired to write his Violin Concerto as a requiem for her, dedicating it “to the memory of an Angel.” Work then proceeded very quickly, and the entire concerto was composed by midJuly and orchestrated by August 11, a little over four months from the time he began work on it. But Berg began to be troubled by a series of illnesses—notably a wasp sting during the summer that gradually developed into a series of abscesses, ultimately resulting in his death from general blood poisoning the day before Christmas. The concerto is laid out in two movements, each divided into two sections, so that the general plan of the work is slow-fast/fastslow. It blends tonal and atonal principles in music, and two borrowed melodies are worked into the fabric of the piece: a folksong from Austria’s Carinthian Alps in the Scherzo section at the end of the first movement, and J. S. Bach’s elegaic chorale, “Es ist genug” (“It is enough”) in the concluding slow section of the second movement. While the text of the chorale expresses a yearning for a reunion with God in death, the Carinthian folksong tells an earthy tale of a young fellow bedding down with a girl. These two very different songs are thought to portray the personality of Manon Gropius before her paralyzing illness and at the moment of her death. They are separated by a lengthy, agitated cadenza for the solo violin during the concerto’s third section, possibly representing her suffering. The remaining section at the very beginning of the concerto, poses the tonal/atonal con-
..................................................................................................................... member at the Eastman School of Music. He began his tenure as concertmaster of the Houston Symphony in 2010 and is on the faculty at Rice University and the University of Houston. During the summer, he teaches at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Texas Music Festival and the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea. Huang performs in a trio with pianist Gilles Vonsattel and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and serves as concertmaster of Sejong, a conductorless chamber orchestra based in New York.
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
She is a founding member of the early music vocal quartet, Gravitación, with which she has recorded medieval, Renaissance and Baroque works.
Marc Molomot, tenor
Possessed of a rare high-tenor voice and a stage persona that comfortably embraces both comedic and dramatic roles, Marc Molomot enjoys an international opera and concert career. While best known for appearances with early music ensembles and conductors, including William Christie, John Eliot Gardiner, Nicholas
McGegan, Andrew Parrott, Apollo’s Fire, Les Boréades and Les Goûts Réunis, Molomot ventures far beyond Baroque. He has performed repertoire from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Auber’s 1830 opera Fra Diavolo to the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring. Other significant roles include the protagonist in Evan Ziporyn’s 2009 A House in Bali; a new role in Jean-Marc Singier’s Chat perché, presented in March 2011 at Paris’ Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille and on tour in France and Switzerland; and this debut performance with the Houston Symphony. Continued on page 25
The emergence of Sherezade Panthaki as a soprano to watch has been fueled in equal measure by superbly honed musicianship, a “radiant” voice (The Washington Post) and deeply informed interpretations. In 2011, she graduated with an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize.
Panthaki Panthaki was born in India and grew up learning piano, but at age 14, she fell in love with singing and discovered that by performing with her voice, “I could touch people more directly and invite them into the music.” After earning a master’s degree in voice performance from the University of Illinois at ChampagneUrbana, she was in great demand, winning several Young Artist awards and appearing with the American Opera Theater and at the Bloomington Early Music Festival. Recent engagements have included solos in repertoire from Hildegard von Bingen to Stravinsky with the Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon), the COGE Choir and Orchestra (Paris), the Carmel Bach Festival (California), Ars Musica (Chicago), Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute (Toronto) and the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concerts. As a frequent guest with the Bostonbased La Donna Musicale, Panthaki has championed works by Baroque women composers in recordings and in live performance at the Utrecht Early Music Festival (Holland), the Murten Classics Festival (Switzerland) and the Banco de La República series (Colombia). May 2012 21
Program
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Friday, May 25, 2012 8 pm Saturday, May 26, 2012 8 pm Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:30 pm Jones Hall
Tiempo Libre: Hot in Havana! Michael Krajewski, conductor Jorge Gomez, musical director, keyboard Raúl Rodríguez, trumpet Leandro Gonzalez, congas Tebelio (Tony) Fonte, bass Armando (Pututi) Arce, drums Joaquin (El Kid) Diaz, lead vocal Luis Beltran Castillo, saxophone, flute Z. Abreu/Dragon
Tico Tico
Arr. G. Prechel
Aranjuez/Spain
S. Routenberg
Mad About Mambo
E. Daniel/Routenberg
Theme from I Love Lucy
Arr. K. Meuller
Santana Suite
Arr. V. Vanacore
Samba In Blue
INTERMISSION This portion of the evening’s program will be announced from the stage.
Michael Krajewski, conductor
Much in demand across the United States and Canada, Michael Krajewski delights concertgoers with his imaginative and entertaining programs and his wry sense of humor. Audiences leave his concerts smiling, remembering the evening’s music and surprises. Maestro Krajewski joined the Houston Symphony as Principal Pops Conductor in 2000. His fans especially enjoy his Star Spangled Salute at Miller Outdoor Theatre and The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, and the Houston holiday tradition, Very Merry Pops. Krajewski also serves as principal pops conductor of the Jacksonville and Atlanta symphony orchestras. He previously held that position with the Long Beach, New Hampshire and New Mexico symphony orchestras. With degrees from Wayne State University and the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, Krajewski furthered his training at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians. He was a Dorati Fellowship Conductor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and later served as that orchestra’s assistant conductor.
Tiempo Libre Pops Presenting Sponsor
Friday evening’s performance is supported in part by Memorial Hermann. Appearances by Principal Pops Conductor Michael Krajewski are generously sponsored by Cameron Management. The Houston Symphony currently records under its own label, Houston Symphony Media Productions, and for Naxos. Houston Symphony recordings also are available on the Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and Koch International Classics labels. 22 www.houstonsymphony.org
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Krajewski
POPS
Cynthia Woods Mitchell at Jones Hall
This three-time Grammy®-nominated Cuban music group is one the hottest young Latin bands today. Seven extraordinary musicians joined together to realize their collective musical dream: to create the first, authentic, all-Cuban timba band in the U.S. Classically trained at Cuba’s premiere conservatories, the group is celebrated for its incendiary performances of timba, an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of high-voltage Latin jazz and the seductive rhythms of song. Tiempo Libre’s debut album, Arroz con Mango (Shanachie) began the success. It was
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ity and the unique range and beauty of his voice, described by The Washington Post as “…Titanic, all encompassing, penetrating.”
Svetlov
nominated for a 2006 Grammy® for Best Salsa/ Meringue Album. Within a year, the group’s second album, Lo Que Esperabas—What You’ve Been Waiting For, was nominated for a second Grammy® for Best Latin Tropical album. The third nomination recognized Bach in Havana (Sony Masterworks) for Best Tropical Latin Album. The group performed “Tu Conga Bach” from the CD in 2009 on Dancing with the Stars. The group’s newest timba recording, My Secret Radio (Sony Masterworks), was inspired by the members’ youth in Cuba when the government forbade its citizens to listen to American music. As teenagers, they fashioned homemade antennas and secretly listened to Miami radio stations that played Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Gloria Estefan and Earth, Wind & Fire. In 2007, Tiempo Libre created Rumba Sinfónica, for symphony orchestra and Cuban band. A collaboration with Venezuelan composer Ricardo Lorenz, it was commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival and the Festival of the Arts Boca. They have performed it with orchestras throughout the U.S. In addition to performing, Tiempo Libre is committed to sharing its music through outreach and educational activities and has participated in artist-in-residence programs at Michigan State University and Interlochen Arts Academy.
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Svetlov was nominated for a 2003 Grammy® Award for a Stravinsky recording and was honored by Télérama for recordings of the world premiere of Rachmaninoff’s The Miserly Knight and Serov’s Judith on the Le Chant du Monde label. He is well known for his performances of Verdi’s Requiem and is the first Russian bass to perform the title roles in Don Giovanni and The Flying Dutchman. His international career began with a successful debut at the Wexford Festival Opera. Since winning the prestigious Gian Battista Viotti International Opera Singing Competition and being praised for his rare
technique in the bel canto style, Svetlov was immediately admitted to the permanent troupe of The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia as a principal soloist. There he has performed numerous engagements, including tour performances at New York‘s Metropolitan Opera and critically acclaimed debuts at Teatro alla Scala and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Svetlov has performed with Houston Grand Opera as Mephistopheles in Faust and Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Other significant performances include Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival; Zaccaria in Nabucco for Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice, Arena di Verona and for the Bregenz Festival; a new production of Rigoletto at the Hamburg State Opera; and Don Giovanni at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. He has appeared as Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos with Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bavarian State Opera. With the London Symphony, he has performed Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich in the Britten Festival at the Barbican Centre. His discography includes Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony (Virgin Classics Limited), Shostakovich’s The Gamblers (Delta Music), Betrothal in a Monastery (BMG), Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans (BBC) and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (Deutsche Gramophone).
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Houston Symphony Chorus.............................................................................. Photo by jeff fitlow
Hausmann Charles Hausmann, director
Dr. Charles S. Hausmann was named director of the Houston Symphony Chorus in 1986 and is celebrating his 25th anniversary in the 2011–12 season. He has prepared the group for more than 600 concerts, led them on numerous tours to Mexico and Europe, and worked with more than 40 acclaimed conductors, including Hans Graf, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor and Robert Shaw. His extensive repertoire includes most of the major choral/orchestral masterworks. As director of graduate choral studies and professor of conducting at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music since 1985, Hausmann supervises the master’s and doctoral programs in choral conducting, teaches choral conducting and literature and conducts the Moores School Choral Artists— a graduate chamber choir. An active church musician, he has conducted church choirs in Colorado, Kentucky, New Jersey and Texas. He currently serves as Director of Choral Music at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston where he led the Houston Symphony and Chorus in a performance of Mendelssohn’s St. Paul (Spring 2008). Hausmann frequently appears as a guest conductor, lecturer, clinician and soloist. He led the Chorus on its fourth European tour in 2007, appearing as guest conductor during the Prague Spring Festival. He and the Chorus share a 24-year collaboration with Mexico City’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, recently performing Mendelssohn’s Elijah with former Houston Symphony Associate Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto.
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Charles Hausmann, Director Paulo Gomes Assistant Director First Soprano Ramona Alms Alice Beckstrom Sarah Berggren Robyn Branning Laura Christian Monica M. Davis Anna Diemer Clarice Gatlin Marta Giles Amanda Harris Amy Ingram Allison Jewett Sarah Keifer Jennifer Klein Salyer Veronica Lorine * • Pamela Magnuson Rita Minter Theresa Olin Megan Owen Karen Rennar Wendy Ridings Rhonda Ryan Heidi Sanders Beth Slaughter Deborah Spencer Lisa Trewin Tania Van Dongen Beth Anne Weidler Pamela Wilhite Second Soprano Yoset Altamirano Lisa Anders Laura Bohlmann • Nancy Bratic Anne Campbell Debby Cutler Vickie Davis Corita Dubose Karen Fess-Uecker Kellie Garden Lorraine Hammond Debbie Hannah • Megan Henry Amanda Hopping * • Sylvia Hysong Yukiko Iwata Natalia Kalitynska Sapna Kumar Rashida Moore • Carol Ostlind Linda Peters Susan Scarrow Vicki Seldon Megan Kennedy Shedden Paige Sommer Veronica A. Stevens Cecilia Sun Caryssa Treider Megan Truelson Nancy Vernau
Sarah Berggren Chorus Manager First Alto Krista Borstell Jami Bruns Patricia Bumpus Barbara Bush Thea Chapman Elizabeth Chitwood Nancy Christopherson Robin Clarkson Christine Economides Mary Gahr • Susan Hall Linda Herron Judy Hill Berma Kinsey Joyce Lewis Ashley Maack Gene Marie Matthews Lisa Morfin Cynthia Mulder Linda Renner Linda Richardson Carolyn Rogan Holly Rubbo June Russell Maria Schoen Andrea Slack Shelby Stratman Vicki Westbrook Kat White Bonnie Wilson Patsy Wilson Shelby Wilson Second Alto Melissa Bailey Adams Rhonda Armor • Sarah Wilson Clark M. Evelyn Clift Rochella Cooper Cecilia Corredor Andrea Creath Robin Dunn Holly Eaton Rachel El-Saleh Thi Ha Denise Holmes Catherine Howard Lois Howell * • Crystal Meadows Lynne Moneypenny Nina Peropoulos Laurie Reynolds Holly Soehnge Mary Voigt Kaye Windel-Garza First Tenor Robert Browning James R. Carazola Patrick Drake Richard Field • Robert Gomez James Patrick Hanley Steven Hazel Donald Howie Francisco J. Izaguirre
Scott Holshouser Accompanist Darrell Mayon * • Jim Moore Peter Peropoulos Bradley Persinger Douglas Rodenberger Gottfried Schiller David Schoen Tony Sessions Charles Thornburg Aaron Verber Second Tenor Bob Alban Jeff Bingham Randy Boatright Harvey Bongers William Cole Donn Dubois Jorge Fandino Mark Ferring Joseph Frybert John Grady Craig Hill Philip Lewis Micah Meads William L. Mize Dave Nussmann Greg Railsback Allen Roberts Rick Selby Lesley C. Sommer Dewell Springer Tony Vazquez Leonardo Veletzuy John W. Werner * • Lee Williams First Bass Joe Anzaldua Rich Arenschieldt Greg Barra Justin Becker Claude Bitner John Bond Bruce Boyle Peter Christian Steve Dukes Leigh Fernau Will Hailey Taylor Harper Scott Hassett Stephen M. James Clemente Mathis William McCallum Chris Ming Matt Neufeld Kevin Newman David Salazar David Schoen Gary Scullin Stephen Shadle Mark Standridge Paul Van Dorn Joe Villarreal Kevin Wallace Sean Warley
Tony Sessions Librarian Second Bass Steve Abercia * • Wilton T. Adams Bill Cheadle John Colson Roger Cutler Paul Ehrsam Tom Everage Chris Fair Ian Fetterley David M. Fox Yevgeny Genin Michael Gilbert Matt Henderson Terry Henderson George Howe Cletus Johnson Nobuhide Kobori Alan MacAdams • Ken Mathews Bryan J. McMicken Scott Mermelstein Clyde L. Miner Greg Nelson Bill Parker John Proffitt • Robert Reynolds Daniel Robertson Doug Sander Andrew Shramm Eric Skelly Richard White James Wilhite
* Section Leader • Council Member
As of March 1, 2012
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Russell
Molomot Molomot’s comedic gifts have been showcased in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Les Arts Florissants and William Christie), Offenbach’s Les brigands (Opéra Toulon and Paris’ Opéra Comique with François-Xavier Roth), and Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias (Opéra de Lyon and Opéra Comique with Ludovic Morlot). Concert appearances have included the U.S. premiere of Dov Seltzer’s Lament for Yitzhak with the New York Philharmonic and signature performances of the evangelist in Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions—most recently with Andrew Parrott in New York; Kraków, Poland; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Trondheim, Norway. Molomot’s recording of Lully’s Thésée with the Boston Early Music Festival was nom-
inated for a 2007 Grammy® Award. He is featured on recordings with Les Arts Florissants, Les Boréades and Apollo’s Fire.
Hugh Russell, baritone
Canadian baritone Hugh Russell is widely acclaimed for his performances in the operas of Mozart and Rossini, and regularly performs with orchestras throughout North America. At the center of his orchestral repertoire is Orff’s Carmina Burana, which Russell has performed with The Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the Pittsburgh, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, among others. In the current season, in addition to these appearances in Houston, Russell
is heard in performances of Carmina Burana with the Indianapolis, National and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He returns to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for concerts of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. He adds John Adams’ The Wound-Dresser in performances with the Toledo Symphony and will be heard in the title role of Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Hamilton. Russell has performed with the New York City Opera, where he debuted singing the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia, as well as the Los Angeles Opera, where he sang Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos. He was an Adler Fellow and a member of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, where he was heard in Ariadne auf Naxos and in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise. As a member of the Pittsburgh Opera Center, Russell sang the roles of Malatesta in Don Pasquale, the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. On the orchestral concert stage, he has performed in Fauré’s Requiem with the Real Orquestra Sinfónica de Sevilla, and in Tobias Picker’s Tres sonetos de amor with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, among many others.
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Symphony Society Board. ................................................................................. Executive Committee............................................................................................... President Chairman of the Board Robert B. Tudor III Jesse B. Tutor President-elect and Vice President, Finance Robert A. Peiser
Executive Director/CEO Mark C. Hanson Chairman Emeritus Mike Stude
Vice President, Artistic and Orchestra Affairs Brett Busby
Vice President, Board Governance and Secretary Steven P. Mach
Vice President, Volunteers Barbara McCelvey
Vice President, Popular Programming Allen Gelwick
Vice President, Education Cora Sue Mach
Vice President, Development David Wuthrich
Vice President, Audience Development and Marketing Gloria G. Pryzant
General Counsel Paul R. Morico
President, Endowment Gene Dewhurst
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Martha García, Assistant Secretary Mark Hughes, Orchestra Representative Rodney Margolis Burke Shaw, Orchestra Representative Donna Shen, President, Houston Symphony League Brinton Averil Smith, Orchestra Representative Ed Wulfe, Immediate Past Chair
At-Large Members Ulyesse LeGrange Jay Marks Helen Shaffer
Governing Directors..................................................................................................... * Janice Barrow Danielle Batchelor Darlene Bisso Marie Bosarge Terry Ann Brown Ralph Burch Prentiss Burt Brett Busby * John T. Cater Janet Clark Michael H. Clark Scott Cutler Lorraine Dell Viviana Denechaud Gene Dewhurst Michael Doherty Susanna Dokupil
Kelli Cohen Fein Julia Frankel David Frankfort Allen Gelwick Mauro Gimenez Stephen Glenn Susan Hansen Gary L. Hollingsworth Ryan Krogmeier Ulyesse LeGrange Rochelle Levit Nancy Littlejohn Cora Sue Mach Steven P. Mach Beth Madison Rodney Margolis Jay Marks
Mary Lynn Marks Jackie Wolens Mazow Billy McCartney Barbara McCelvey Gene McDavid * Alexander K. McLanahan Kevin Meyers Paul Morico Arthur Newman Robert A. Peiser Fran Fawcett Peterson Geoffroy Petit David Pruner Stephen Pryor Gloria G. Pryzant Kathi Rovere John Rydman
Manolo Sanchez Helen Shaffer Jerome Simon Jim R. Smith David Steakley Mike Stude Robert B. Tudor III * Betty Tutor * Jesse B. Tutor Margaret Waisman Fredric A. Weber Vicki West Margaret Alkek Williams * Ed Wulfe David Wuthrich Robert A. Yekovich
Samuel Abraham Philip Bahr Devinder Bhatia Anthony Bohnert Meherwan Boyce Walter Bratic Lynn Caruso Audrey Cochran Ryan Colburn Mark Day Louis Delone Tom Fitzpatrick Craig A. Fox Stanley Haas Kathleen Hayes
Brian James Catherine Kaldis Joan Kaplan I. Ray Kirk Roslyn Larkey Carolyn Mann Paul M. Mann Judy Margolis David Massin Brian McCabe Marilyn Miles Tassie Nicandros Scott Nyquist Edward Osterberg Jr. Ron Rand
Roman F. Reed Richard Robbins J. Hugh Roff Jr. Michael E. Shannon Jule Smith David Tai Michael Tenzer L. Proctor (Terry) Thomas Stephen G. Tipps Ileana Treviñio Mrs. S. Conrad Weil Robert Weiner David Ashley White James T. Willerson Steven J. Williams
Ex-Officio Martha García Mark C. Hanson Mark Hughes Susan Osterberg Burke Shaw Donna Shen Brinton Averil Smith Glenda Toole
Trustees. .................................................................................................................
* Life Trustee
............................................................................................................................ ENDOWMENT TRUSTEES Gene Dewhurst, President Prentiss Burt Janet Clark Marilyn Miles Michael Mithoff Jesse B. Tutor Past Presidents of the Houston Symphony Society Mrs. Edwin B. Parker Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. H. M. Garwood Joseph A. Mullen, M.D. Joseph S. Smith Walter H. Walne H. R. Cullen Gen. Maurice Hirsch Charles F. Jones
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Fayez Sarofim John T. Cater Richard G. Merrill Ellen Elizardi Kelley John D. Platt E. C. Vandagrift Jr. J. Hugh Roff Jr. Robert M. Hermance Gene McDavid Janice H. Barrow Barry C. Burkholder Rodney H. Margolis Jeffrey B. Early Michael E. Shannon Ed Wulfe Jesse B. Tutor
Past Presidents of the Houston Symphony League Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. John F. Grant Mrs. J. R. Parten Mrs. Andrew E. Rutter Mrs. Aubrey Leon Carter Mrs. Stuart Sherar Mrs. Julian Burrows Ms. Hazel Ledbetter Mrs. Albert P. Jones Mrs. Ben A. Calhoun Mrs. James Griffith Lawhon Mrs. Olaf La Cour Olsen Mrs. Ralph Ellis Gunn Mrs. Leon Jaworski Mrs. Garrett R. Tucker Jr. Mrs. M. T. Launius Jr.
Mrs. Thompson McCleary Mrs. Theodore W. Cooper Mrs. Allen H. Carruth Mrs. David Hannah Jr. Mary Louis Kister Ellen Elizardi Kelley Mrs. John W. Herndon Mrs. Charles Franzen Mrs. Harold R. DeMoss Jr. Mrs. Edward H. Soderstrom Mrs. Lilly Kucera Andress Ms. Marilou Bonner Mrs. W. Harold Sellers Mrs. Harry H. Gendel Mrs. Robert M. Eury Mrs. E. C. Vandagrift Jr. Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Terry Ann Brown Nancy Strohmer
Mary Ann McKeithan Ann Cavanaugh Mrs. James A. Shaffer Lucy H. Lewis Catherine McNamara Shirley McGregor Pearson Paula Jarrett Cora Sue Mach Kathi Rovere Norma Jean Brown Barbara McCelvey Lori Sorcic Nancy Willerson Jane Clark Nancy Littlejohn
Houston Symphony Donors.............................................................................. The Sustainability Fund
The Houston Symphony pays special tribute to those who support our Sustainability Fund, whose extraordinary leadership investment has made it possible for the Symphony to provide the deep level of cultural service so richly deserved by the communities of the greater Houston area and Gulf Coast region. For further information about The Sustainability Fund, please contact Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, at (713) 238-1412.
Houston Endowment The Estate of Jean R. Sides
Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell Jr.
Annual Support
The Houston Symphony gratefully acknowledges those who support our artistic, educational and community engagement programs through their generosity to our Annual Fund and our Special Events. Donors receive a wide array of benefits for the current season and recognition for one year following the date of their gifts. Below is a listing of those who have so generously given within the past 12 months. We are honored to count these donors among our closest Houston Symphony friends, and we invite you to consider becoming a member of one of our giving societies. For more information, please contact David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, at (713) 337-8525.
Leadership Gifts
Ima Hogg Society $150,000 or More
Dr. & Mrs. W. E. Bosarge Lieutenant Governor David H. Dewhurst Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Beth Madison Mr. George P. Mitchell John & Lindy Rydman/Spec’s Wine’s Spirits & Finer Foods Mr. M. S. Stude Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Margaret Alkek Williams Anonymous Centennial Society $100,000 - $149,000 Jane & Robert Cizik Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor
President’s Society $75,000 - $99,999 Nancy & Robert Peiser
Maestro’s Society $50,000 - $74,999 Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Janice Barrow Gene & Linda Dewhurst Maestro Hans Graf & Mrs. Graf Mr. Monzer Hourani Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Rochelle & Max Levit Anonymous
Concertmaster’s Society $25,000 - $49,999
Captain & Mrs. W. A. “Cappy” Bisso III Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Griswold Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse J. LeGrange Meredith & Cornelia Long
Joella & Steven P. Mach Jay & Shirley Marks Barbara & Pat McCelvey Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Mr. & Mrs. David R. Pruner Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Alice & Terry Thomas Anonymous (2) May 2012 27
Houston Symphony Donors........................................................................................ Principal Musician’s Society $15,000 - $24,999 Mr. Gary V. Beauchamp & Ms. Marian Wilfert Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. J. Brett Busby Mr. Ralph Burch Janet F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Cochran Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Dell Angel & Craig Fox
Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Cora Sue & Harry Mach Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Billy McCartney Ann & Hugh Roff Mr. Walter & Mrs. Maryjane Scherr Laura & Michael Shannon
Mr. Louis H. Skidmore Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Dede & Connie Weil
Artist/Conductor’s Society $10,000 - $14,999 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Abraham Mr. & Mrs. David J. Beck Dr. Alan Bentz & Ms. Sallymoon S. Benz Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black III Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bratic Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Carter IV Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark Ms. Jan Cohen Dr. Scott Cutler Mr. Richard Danforth Leslie Barry Davidson & W. Robins Brice Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dokupil Mrs. William Estrada Aubrey & Sylvia Farb
Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein & Martin J. Fein Mr. David Frankfort & Ms. Erika Bermeo Dr. & Mrs. William D. George Mr. & Mrs. Melbern G. Glasscock Susan & Dick Hansen Mr. Brian James Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Lykos Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Michael Mann Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Betty & Gene McDavid Miss Catherine Jane Merchant Mr. & Mrs. James Postl Gloria & Joe Pryzant
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Rovere Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Haag Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Simon Julia & Albert Smith Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Tad Smith David & Paula Steakley Paul Strand Thomas Stephen & Pamalah Tipps Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Vicki West Mr. & Mrs. Steven Jay Williams Anonymous (2)
Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Moynihan Bobbie & Arthur Newman Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Mr. & Mrs. Ron R. Rand Mrs. Lila Rauch Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ken N. Robertson Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Dr. Carlos Rossi Ms. Amanda Savo Donna & Tim Shen Dr. Alana R. Spiwak & Sam Stolbun
Mr. Stephen C. Tarry Ann & Joel Wahlberg Stephen & Kristine Wallace Robert G. Weiner Dr. Jim T. Willerson Nancy Willerson Wallace S. Wilson Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Mr. & Mrs. Ed Wulfe Nina & Michael Zilkha Anonymous (1)
William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Bert & Julie Cornelison Mr. Denis A. DeBakey & Ms. Lavonne Cox J.R. & Aline Deming Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Ms. Sara J. Devine Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Egner Jr. Mr. Roger Eichhorn Mary Ann & Larry Faulkner Ms. Bernice Feld Mr. Shane T. Frank Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Fusillo Mr. George B. Geary
Mrs. Aileen Gordon William A. Grieves & Dorothy McDonnell Grieves Ms. Kathleen Hayes Debbie & Frank Jones Drs. Blair & Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Kinder Mary Louis Kister Mr. Alfred Lasher III Marilyn Lummis Mr. & Mrs. Stevens Mafrige Mr. & Mrs. William L. Maynard Mrs. Beverly T. McDonald
Musician’s Society $7,500 - $9,999 Mrs. Bonnie Bauer Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Ms. Terry A. Brown Roger & Debby Cutler Mr. & Mrs. David Denechaud Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Christina & Mark Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Mr. & Mrs. Kevin O. Meyers Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Cameron Mitchell Sidney & Ione Moran Sue A. Morrison Conductor’s Circle $5,000 - $7,499 Eric S. Anderson & R. Dennis Anderson Robin Angly & Miles Smith Mr. & Mrs. Karl H. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Ruth White Brodsky Mrs. George L. Brundrett Jr. Barry & Janet Burkholder Toba Buxbaum Marilyn Caplovitz David & Nona Carmichael Mrs. Lily Carrigan Margot & John Cater Ms. Donna Chapman 28 www.houstonsymphony.org
..................................................................................................................................... Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas McMurrey Jr. Mr. Gary Mercer Stephen & Marilyn Miles Ginni & Richard Mithoff Paul & Rita Morico Mr. & Mrs. Lucian L. Morrison Jr. Terry Murphree Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Nickson Ms. Peggy Overly & Mr. John Barlow Mr. Howard Pieper Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Mr. & Mrs. Allan Quiat Drs. Clyde & Mary Ann Reynolds Dr. Carlos Rossi Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Smith Mr. Yale Smith Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Mr. & Mrs. Leland Tate Mr. Jonathan Tinkle Shirley & David R. Toomim Ann Trammell Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Warren Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Woodell Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wuthrich Winthrop A. Wyman & Beverly Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Robert Yekovich Erla & Harry Zuber Anonymous (1)
Grand Patron’s Circle $2,500 - $4,999
Mr. & Mrs. Thurmon Andress Mr. & Mrs. Anthony P. Apollo Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnoldy Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Mr. Richard C. Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Barbieri Dr. & Mrs. Devinder Bhatia Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bolam Mr. Teodoro Bosquez Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bozeman Mr. & Mrs. Sean Bumgarner Dr. & Mrs. William T. Butler Dennis & Susan Carlyle Mr. & Mrs. Thierry Caruso David Chambers & Alexander Steffler Dr. Robert N. Chanon Mr. William E. Colburn Lois & David Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Louis F. DeLone James R. Denton Mr. & Mrs. Carr P. Dishroon Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Mr. William Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan B. Fairbanks Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ference Mr. & Mrs. Jason Few Ron & Tricia Fredman Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs & Ms. Darlene Clark
Thomas & Patricia Geddy Mrs. Lila-Gene George Mr. & Mrs. Bert H. Golding Robert & Michele Goodmark Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Haas Mr. & Mrs. Eric Heggeseth Mrs. Catherine Hennessy Marianne & Robert Ivany Marzena & Jacek Jaminski Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Mrs. Donna P. Josey-Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Francis S. Kalman Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Keeton Mr. & Mrs. Gary Kenney William & Cynthia Koch Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Krogmeier Mr. Willy Kuehn Mrs. Barry Lewis Mrs. Margaret H. Ley Mr. James Lokay Mr. & Mrs. Lance McKnight Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Moore Julia & Chris Morton Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Olfers Edward Oppenheimer Mr. & Mrs. Gary Petersen Mr. Timothy Presutti Mr. Michael H. Price Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Pryor Jeremy & Linsay Radcliffe Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Reckling III Michael & Vicky Richker Allyn & Jill Risley Drs. Alex & Lynn Rosas Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Sawaya Dr. Philip D. Scott & Dr. Susan E. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr. Dr. & Mrs. C. Richard Stasney Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Keith Stevenson Mr. David Tai Dr. & Mrs. Karl Tornyos C. Harold & Lorine Wallace Ms. Elizabeth Wolff Mr. Keith Yanez Mr. & Judge Cary P. Yates Edith & Robert Zinn Anonymous (1) Sustaining Patron’s Circle $1,000 - $2,499
Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Abramson Mr. & Mrs. Edgar D. Ackerman Mrs. Harold J. Adam Joan & Stanford Alexander Mrs. Nancy C. Allen, President Greentree Fund Mr. John Alvarado Frances & Ira Anderson John & Pat Anderson Mr. & Mrs. William J. Anderson Mr. Maurice J. Aresty Mr. & Mrs. John M. Arnsparger Paul H. & Maida M. Asofsky Mr. Jeff Autor Mr. & Mrs. John C. Averett
Mr. & Mrs. Jamil Azzam Mrs. Nancy Bailey Dr. & Mrs. Christie Ballantyne Mr. & Mrs. John A. Barrett Mr. Paul Basinski Ms. Deborah S. Bautch Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Beaudet Mr. James Bell Betty Bellamy Drs. Henry & Louise Bethea Dr. Joan H. Bitar Monica & John Blaisdell Mrs. Thomas W. Blake Mrs. Danya M. Bogart Dr. & Mrs. Milton Boniuk Mrs. Joanie Bowman Mr. Sonny Brandtner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bray Joe Brazzatti Mr. & Mrs. John B. Brent Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Bresenhan Mr. Malcolm Brewer & Mrs. Irina S. Dudley Katherine M. Briggs Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Brophy The Honorable & Mrs. Peter Brown Mr. & Mrs. Terry Bryant Dr. & Mrs. Fred Buckwold Lilia Khakinova & C. Robert Bunch Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Ms. Cathy M. Cagle Ms. Marjorie Carter Cain Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Kent Chevenert Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clamen Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Clarke Mr. & Mrs. James G. Coatsworth Mr. & Mrs. Todd Colter Dr. Carmen Bonmati & Mr. Ben Conner Mr. Mark C. Conrad Ms. Barbara A. Conte Mr. H. Talbot Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Sam Cooper Dr. & Mrs. James D. Cox Sylvia & Andre Crispin Mr. & Mrs. T. N. Crook Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Cullen Jr. Mr. Carl Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Davis Ms. Elizabeth Del Pico John & Tracy Dennis Bruce B. Dice Mr. & Mrs. Mark Diehl Mike & Debra Dishberger Mr. & Mrs. Jack N. Doherty Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn Paul & Debbie Dougharty Drs. Gary & Roz Dworkin John & Joyce Eagle Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Carolyn & David Edgar Tiffany Edwards Mr. Scott Ensell Diane Lokey Farb Mr. & Mrs. Donald Faust Sr. Mrs. Carolyn Grant Fay Dr. Judith Feigin & Mr. Colin Faulkner Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Fischer John C. Fitch Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fitzpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Fleisher May 2012 29
Houston Symphony Donors........................................................................................ Mr. Jeff Fort Mr. & Mrs. William H. Fowler II Ms. Beth Freeman & Mr. Dave Stanard Adrienne Gardner & Michael Zatorski Mr. John Gee Mr. Jerry George Mr. Michael B. George Mrs. Joan M. Giese Dr. & Mrs. Jack Gill Walter Gilmore Mr. Mauro Gimenez & Ms. Connie Coulomb Mr. & Mrs. Morris Glesby Gary & Marion Glober Helen B. Wils & Leonard Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. Herbert I. Goodman Dr. & Mrs. Bradford S. Goodwin Jr. Mr. Carlos Gorrichategui Mr. Kendall Gray Ms. Joyce Z. Greenberg Mr. Charles H. Gregory Mary & Paul Gregory Mr. & Mrs. Doug Groves Mr. Michael Haigh Mrs. Thalia Halen Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Hall Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Bob Hammann Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hanna Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hanson Marion S. Hargrove Mr. & Judge Frank Harmon III Mr. & Mrs. Warren W. Harris David & Claudia Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. David L. Haug Mr. & Mrs. Houston Haymon Mr. & Mrs. David Hemenway Mark & Ragna Henrichs Mr. Azteca Henry Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Herrmann Ann & Joe Hightower Mr. & Mrs. Doug R. Hinzie Mr. Robert Hoff Mr. Tim Hogan Dr. Holly Holmes & Dr. Paul Otremba Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hooks Mrs. Evelyn Howell Mr. & Mrs. Norman C. Hoyer Mr. & Mrs. George Hricik Mr. Mark Hughes Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Hunton Mr. Bradford Irelan Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Isham Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Jackson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic Mr. & Mrs. Okey B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Steve Jones Mr. & Mrs. Walter Kase Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Katz Linda & Frank S. Kelley Mr. & Mrs. Mavis Kelsey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Kennedy Lucy & Victor Kormeier Ms. Deborah Kosich Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Lane Ms. Joni Latimer Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Leighton Dr. & Mrs. Morton Leonard Jr. Ms. Golda K. Leonard H. Fred & Velva G. Levine Mrs. Ann Lewis 30 www.houstonsymphony.org
Mr. William W. Lindley Mr. & Mrs. Michael Linn Ms. Barbara Lister Mr. & Mrs. H. Arthur Littell Ms. Nancey Lobb Mr. & Mrs. John Lollar Mr. John P. Long Robert & Gayle Longmire Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Longstreth Mr. William Looser Mr. & Mrs. Bob Lunn Tom & Kathleen Mach Ms. Alissa Maples Mr. & Mrs. Barry H. Margolis Mr. David Massin Mr. & Mrs. J.A. Mawhinney Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James W. McCartney Mr. Allen McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Andrew McFarland Mr. & Mrs. John M. McGill Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGuire Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Barnett & Diane McLaughlin Ms. Karen McRae Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Mr. & Mrs. John Merrill Melba Hoekstra Miers Estate Mr. & Mrs. David A. Mire Mr. & Mrs. John C. Molloy Mr. David Monk Dr. Eleanor D. Montague Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Moynier Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Mueller Mr. & Mrs. Richard Murphy Daniel & Karol Musher Ms. Jennifer Naae Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Mr. & Mrs. Larry Norman Steve & Sue Olson Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon I. Oster Jane & Kenneth Owen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pacini Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. Robert Pastorek Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Michael & Shirley Pearson Pamela & James Penny Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Perry Mr. Carlton Perry JoAnn & John Petzold Ms. Debra Phillips Mr. & Mrs. W. Hugh Phillips III Ms. Meg Philpot Mr. James D. Pitcock Mr. John Potts Mrs. Dana Puddy Darla & Chip Purchase Mr. & Mrs. David Pursell Mr. Dale Qualls & Mrs. Melissa McWilliams Dr. & Mrs. Henry H. Rachford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Randt Clinton & Leigh Rappole Anne D. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Reeves Mr. Charles M. Reimer Dr. Alexander P. Remenchik & Ms. Frances Burford Ms. Janice Robertson & Mr. Douglas Williams Ms. Franelle Rogers Ms. Regina J. Rogers
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ross Mr. Kent Rutter Carole & Barry Samuels Chris & Don Sanders Harold H. Sandstead, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Schanzmeyer Beth & Lee Schlanger Mr. Ed Schneider & Ms. Toni A. Oplt Drs. Helene & Robert Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Rufus Scott Mr. Ralph D. Sikes Mr. & Mrs. Steve Sims Barbara & Louis Sklar Ms. Marcia Smart Mr. Brinton A. Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Mr. & Mrs. William A. Smith Dean & Kay L. Snider Ms. Aimee Snoots Mr. & Mrs. John Speer Mary Louise Spencer Carol & Michael Stamatedes Richard P. Steele & Mary J. McKerall Cassie B. Stinson & Dr. R. Barry Holtz Mr. & Mrs. Stopnicki Mrs. Christie Sullivan Emily C. Sundt Mrs. Mary Swafford Ms. Jeanine Swift Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas L. Swyka Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. Mark Taylor Mr. Jim Teague & Ms. Jane DiPaolo Jean & Doug Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Ralph B. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Trevor Turbidy Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Mr. Donn K. Van Arsdall Mr. & Mrs. Gene Van Dyke Ms. Barbara Van Postman Mr. & Mrs. William A. Van Wie Ms. Jana Vander Lee Betty & Bill Walker Mr. Danny Ward & Ms. Nancy Ames Mr. & Mrs. Peter S. Wareing Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt Ms. Joann E. Welton Mr. & Mrs. Eden N. Wenig Mr. John Wetsel & Mrs. Joanne Breihan-Wetsel Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Whelan Ms. Melanie S. Wiggins Carlton & Marty Wilde Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Wolinsky Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Wray Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Yankowsky Mr. & Mrs. William A. Young Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Mrs. Betsy I. Zimmer Anonymous (9)
Composer’s Circle $500 - $999
Wade & Mert Adams Ms. Joan Ambrogi Mr. & Mrs. Steve Ameen Dr. & Mrs. Roy Aruffo Corbin & Char Aslakson Julie Ann & Matthew Baker Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Mr. Allen J. Becker Ms. Bernice Beckerman
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen III Carolyn & Arthur Berner Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Berteaud Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bickel Ms. Tara Black Mrs. Noemi Blum-Howard Mr. Edward P. Bornet Ms. Joan Boss Ms. Suzie Boyd Bob F. Boydston Ms. Sally Brassow Mr. Chester Brooke & Mrs. Nancy Poindexter Mr. J. W. Brougher Mr. & Mrs. Jos C. Brown Fred & Judy Brunk Ms. Courtney Brynes Dr. Christopher Buehler & Ms. Jill Hutchison John T. & Elizabeth Burdine Ms. Helen P. Burwell Mr. Carl Butler Ms. Cheryl Byington Mr. & Mrs. Charles Callery Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Mr. Len Cannon Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Cantrell Jr. Mr. John Carmichael Mrs. H. E. Carrico Mr. Petros Carvounis Mr. & Mrs. John M. Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Chaney K.D. Charalampous, M.D. Mr. William H. Choice III Virginia A. Clark Mrs. Cielle Clemenceau Mr. David Coleman Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Coon Ms. Miguel A. Correll Mr. William S. & Dr. Mary Alice Cowan Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Crull Mr. & Mrs. Rene Degreve Dr. & Mrs. Clotaire D. Delery Ms. Aurelie Desmarais Mr. Michael Dooley Elizabeth H. Duerr Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Dumestre Ms. Consuelo Duroc-Danner Ms. Paula Eck Mildred & Richard Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Peter Erickson Dr. Kenneth L Euler Mr. & Mrs. William Evans Dr. Louis & Mrs. Paula Faillace Robert H. Fain Jr., M.D. Mr. Robert Fisher Mr. Dale Fitz Mr. Stephen J. Folzenlogen Mr. Eugene A. Fong Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Francisco Rachel Frazier Mrs. Martha Garcia Mr. Douglas Garrison Martha & Gibson Gayle Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Neil Gaynor Ms. Lucy Gebhart Mr. & Mrs. Duane V. Geis Ms. Carolyn Gibbs & Mr. Rick Nelson William E. Gipson Ms. Melissa Goodman Mr. Bert Gordon Dr. & Mrs. Harvey L. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Mark Gordon
..................................................................................................................................... Mr. Garrett Graham Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Greenan Dennis Griffith & Louise Richman Mr. & Mrs. Steve K. Grimsley Gaye Davis & Dennis B. Halpin Rita & John Hannah Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Harbachick Michael D. Hardin Bruce Harkness & Alice Brown W. Russel Harp & Maarit K. Savola-Harp Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Harrell Dr. & Mrs. William S. Harwell Ms. Ann Lents & Mr. J. David Heaney Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Heard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Heath Ms. Lynn Herbert Mr. & Mrs. Fred D. Herring Mr. & Mrs. John R. Heumann Mr. & Mrs. W. Grady Hicks Mr. & Mrs. Ross K. Hill Mr. John Hodgin Mr. David Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Hoffman Dr. Matthew Horsfield & Dr. Michael Kauth Mr. Steve Hulsey Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Isham Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Janicke Mr. Mark Johansson Mr. & Mrs. Wesley A. Johnson Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Jordon Ms. Karen Juul-Nielsen & Mr. Rick Garnett Mr. Guido Kanschat Mr. & Mrs. Yoshi Kawashima Sam & Cele Keeper Mr. & Mrs. Keith Kelley Mr. John Kelsey & Ms. Gaye Davis Mr. & Mrs. Tom Kelsey Louise & Sherwin Kershman Nora J. Klein M. D. Ms. Malgosia Kloc Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred M. Krenek Mr. Dennis Kroeger Mr. Vijay Kusnoor Ms. Diane Laborde Mr. & Mrs. Joel C. Lambert Dr. & Mrs. Shane Lanys Mr. James Leatherby Mr. & Mrs. William Leighton Mr. James C. Lindsey Lisle Violin Shop Mr. Kelly Bruce Lobley Mrs. Sylvia Lohkamp Ms. Renee Margolin Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Marion Mr. & Mrs. Robert Martin Ms. B. Lynn Mathre & Mr. Stewart O’Dell Dr. & Mrs. Glen E. Mattingly Mr. & Mrs. Rod McAdams Mr. & Mrs. James McBride Lawrence McCullough & Linda Jean Quintanilla Dr. A. McDermott & Dr. A. Glasser Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence McManus William E. Joor, III & Rose Ann Medlin Ms. Maria Carolina Mendoza Mr. Ronald A. Mikita Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller
Ms. Kristen Miller Mr. Willis B. Mitchell John & Ann Montgomery Ms. Deborah Moran Mr. William R. Mowlam Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Neumann Mr. Robert Nichols Ms. Dorothy Nicholson John & Leslie Niemand Nils & Stephanie Normann Mr. & Mrs. Rufus W. Oliver III Ms. Katy Optiks Mr. & Mrs. Morris Orocofsky Mrs. Caroline Osteen Mr. Patrick C. Oxford Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Paige Mr. Jonathan Palmer Ms. Martha Palmer Rachel & Michael Pawson Mrs. Preston A. Peak Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Penn Ms. Glena Pfenning Grace & Carroll Phillips Mr. Carmelo Pieri Mr. Warren B. Pond Jr. Mr. Robert W. Powell Kim & Ted A. Powell Paula & Nico Praagman Hudgins Mr. & Mrs. Gary Prentice Mr. Tom Purves Elias & Carole Qumsieh Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ramirez Dr. Mike Ratliff Mr. & Mrs. William B. Rawl Mr. & Mrs. Hugh M. Ray Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Reeves Ms. Rachaelle Reynolds Mrs. Constance Rhebergen Mrs. Barbara Riddell Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Rinehart Mr. & Mrs. James T. Robinson Drs. Herbert & Manuela Roeller Mr. & Mrs. Keith A. Rogers Rudy & Ellyn Roof Milton & Jill Rose Mr. Autry W. Ross Mrs. Holly Rubbo Brittany Sakowitz Mr. Robert T. Sakowitz Mr. Charles King Sanders Dr. & Mrs. David Sapire Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Schwaab Jean & Robert Schwarz Dr. & Mrs. H. Irving Schweppe Jr. Ms. Donna Scott Charles & Andrea Seay Mr. & Mrs. Vic Shainock Mr. Hilary Smith Mr. Marcus B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Stephen N. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Tom Smith Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Smith Mr. & Mrs. William Smith John L. Snyder Mrs. Donna Sprudzs Ms. Joyce Steensrud Mr. Ronald B. Stein Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Steinman Mr. & Ms. Gary Stenerson Dr. John R. Stroehlein & Ms. Miwa Sakashita Mr. Alan Stuckert
Dr. & Mrs. David Sufian Mr. & Mrs. John F. Sullivan Mrs. Louise Sutton Mr. & Mrs. George Tallichet Ms. Carolyn Tanner Mrs. Nina P. Tate Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Taylor Mr. Kerry Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Van Teeters Mr. Brian Teichman Ms. Betsy Mims & Mr. Howard D. Thames Jacob & Elizabeth Thomas David & Ann Tomatz Mr. & Mrs. Louis E. Toole Mr. Daniel S. Trachtenberg Ms. Cathleen J. Trechter Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Tremant Mr. Gerard Trione Mrs. Eliot P. Tucker Mr. & Mrs. D.E. Utecht Dr. & Mrs. Gage VanHorn Mr. Earl Vanzant Dean B. Walker Mr. & Mrs. David Ward Mr. Kenneth W. Warren Ms. Bryony Jane Welsh J. M. Weltzien Drs. A. & J. Werch Mrs. Johannah Wilkenfeld Mr. Burt Wilson Mr. Randall Wright Mr. & Mrs. Emil Wulfe Anonymous (20))
Patron’s Circle $250 - $499
Mr. & Mrs. W. Kendall Adam Mr. John E. Adkins Jr. William & Nancy Akers Ms. Beth Alfredson Mr. & Mrs. Edward Allen Mr. Richard S. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. William L. Anderson Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Les Antalffy Mr. Robert Arnett Mr. Richard Arsenault Mr. John B. Ashmun Mr. Ketti Awad The Honorable & Mrs. James A. Baker III Mr. & Mrs. John Baker Mr. Fred Bakun Ms. Virginia C. Ballard Mrs. Teresa Barker Ms. Jeanette B. Barlow Mr. & Mrs. Don Barnhill Ms. Anne Barrett Mr. Daniel Barretto Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bast Jr. Barbara & Jim Becker Carole Shivers Ms. Heather Beliveaux Drs. Peter & Sonia Benjamin Ms. Roberta Benson Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Benton Mrs. Robert L. Berge Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Beshears Mr. & Mrs. Randall Beste Mrs. Rita Blumenfeld Mr. & Mrs. George Boerger Mr. Jerry Bohannon Ms. Sarah Bolka Mr. Arno S. Bommer Mr. Philip Booth Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Borman Ms. Leslee Boyd
Mr. James Bragg Mrs. Bobbi Brauner Ms. Tiffany Breeding Mrs. Catherine Campbell Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Ms. Colleen Bronder Mr. & Mrs. Steven Brosvik Sally & Laurence Brown Mrs. Norma Jean Brown Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Mr. & Mrs. William Bumpus Mrs. Shirley Burgher Mr. & Mrs. Robert Burleson Mr. & Mrs. Gerald J. Bush Mr. Eugene Byrd Mr. & Mrs. Robert Cabes Mr. & Mrs. Gary Cacciatore Virginia & William Camfield Ms. Sharon Cammack Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Campbell Mr. Carlos Campo Marjorie H. Capshaw Ms. Katherine Carney Mr. Tom Carradine Mr. & Mrs. Fowler T. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Casey Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Chandler Mr. Erik Channell Mr. & Mrs. Alejandro Chaoul Ms. Anna Charlton Mrs. Ronghui Chen Dr. Diana S. Chow Mr. & Mrs. William L. Clark Dr. & Mrs. Alfred C. Coats Jim R. & Lynn Coe Shirley & Alan Cohn Donna M. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Tulio Colmenares Mr. & Mrs. Clayton A. Compton Mrs. Tracey Conwell Michael T. Coppinger Mr. & Mrs. David Corder Mr. David Corry & Mrs. Farrah Kheradmand Dr. Edward Cox Mr. & Mrs. John F. Crawford Ms. Viola H. Curtis Dr. & Mrs. Joel Cyprus Mrs. Christina Daniels Dr. Lee Daniels Leon Davis Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Davis Ms. Jeannine Dawson Mr. Jose De La Torre Mr. Warren Dean Mr. Michael Deavers Mr. Phillip C. DeBlanc Ms. Caroline Deetjen Mr. Emre Demirors Ms. Kay S. Derry Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Derzapf Ms. Elisabeth DeWitts Ms. Dora Dillistone Ms. Judy Dines Mr. & Mrs. Walt Dishberger Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm Ditto Mr. Peter H. Doe Col. & Mrs. John Jay Douglass Robert J. Doyle Patrick & Risha Dozark Ms. Ramona Dragomir Mrs. Lesa Ducharme Mr. & Mrs. Clifford C. Dukes Mr. & Mrs. Willis G. Dunkum III Mr. Kevin F. Dvorak Mrs. Julie Earley Mr. & Mrs. R. C. Earlougher Jr. Mr. James East Mr. & Mrs. Alfred H. Ebert Jr. Mrs. Christine Eckelkamp Mrs. Karen A. Edgmon Mr. Scott Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Egan Russell Egan Mr. & Mrs. William J. Eggleston
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Houston Symphony Donors........................................................................................ Mr. & Mrs. Dean Eicher Mr. Ramsay M. Elder Ms. Leslie Elkins Ms. Ann Lang Ellis Dr. Lillian R. Eriksen & Dr. James Turley Mr. Gabriel Ermoli Mr. Lee Eubanks Mr. Mike Ezzell Mr. Gregg Fajkus Mr. & Mrs. John R. Farina Ms. Sherry Feldman Ms. Lauren Fernandes Dr. & Mrs. George Ferry Mr. David Fifield Mr. Mark S. Finkelstein Mr. & Mrs. Vladimir Fishel Mr. & Mrs. Joe F. Flack III Ms. Lori Flees Mrs. & Mr. Elvira Fletcher Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Flick Mr. James B. Flodine & Ms. Lynne Liberato Mrs. Lisa Forgan Dewitts Joyce & David Fox Ms. Johnella V. Franklin Mr. Ralph F. Frankowski Ms. Diane L. Freeman Ms. Lee Friedman Mr. Harry Froeber Janet & Mickey Frost Robert A. Furse, M.D. Dr. Abdel K. Fustok Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gallagher Mrs. Holly Garner Mr. David Garza Mr. & Mrs. Lazaro Garza III Karen Ostrum George Mr. & Mrs. John Gerdes Ms. Margaret Wendy Germani Mr. Osman Ghandour Debbie & Kyle Gibson Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Gigliotti Mr. & Mrs. Peter Gillette Mr. Charles J. Gillman Ms. Shari Glover Mr. & Mrs. Paul Good Mr. John Goodwin Mr. Hemant Goradia Dr. & Mrs. David Gorenstein Mr. Jon Kevin Gossett Mr. Ned Graber Mr. & Mrs. Tim Graham Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm Granberry Mr. & Mrs. William Granek Mr. William Grattendick Mr. Dane Grenoble Mr. & Mrs. Laurent Gressot Mr. & Mrs. Ben Guefen Mr. Cesar Guerra Ms. Nandita Guha Ms. Jo Ann C. Guillory Ms. Jenny Guth Dr. & Mrs. Howard Gutstein Zahava Haenosh Mr. John F. H. Hagelman Mr. Teruhiko Hagiwara Mr. & Mrs. Curtis D. Haines Ms. Vickie Hamley Mr. Frank Handy Mr. Jeff Hansen & Mrs. Kelly Marts Mr. Paul Hanson Mr. Franklin J. Harberg Jr. Ms. Karen Harding Mr. & Mrs. Tod P. Harding Mr. Paul Harmon Ms. Anna K. Hathaway-McKee Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hawes Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm Hawk Mr. Myron Hawryluk Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Hecht Mr. David T. Hedges Jr. Mr. John Heiny Mr. & Mrs. Dean Hennings Donald & Rosemary Herron
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Ms. Hilda R. Herzfeld Dr. Janice Hewitt Mrs. Gina Hightower Mr. David Hilditch Mr. Jeffrey Hiller Dr. & Mrs. Herschel Hobson Susan Hodge Ms. Constance Holderer Jacque Holland Ms. Leisa Holland-Nelson S.y. & Y.j. Kim Hong Mr. Ted Hsiao Mrs. Patricia P. Hubbard Ms. Vicki Huff Mr. & Mrs. Dean Huffman Ms. Cynthia Humphries Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Hurd Mr. & Mrs. James R. Hutton Ms. Jennifer Isadore Mr. Joseph Ivey Ms. Ariel James Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Janes Miss Amanda M. Jarolimek Mrs. Paula Jarrett Dr. Margaret S. Jelinek Lewis & Dr. David S. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. George C. John Mr. & Mrs. John W. Johnson Mr. Robert E. Johnson Mr. Raymond Jones Dr. & Mrs. Andrew P. Kant Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kantor Ms. Connie Kao Mr. James Kaufman Dr. Helen K. Kee Ms. Arlette Keene Mr. & Mrs. James A. Keller Mr. & Mrs. Hugh R. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. David Kendall Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Kiley Dr. James Killian Ms. Amy Kirchner Mr. Robert J. Kirner Mr. & Mrs. John Klug Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Koski Mr. & Mrs. Sam Koster Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Krezer Jr. Mr. Quin Kroll Suzanne A. & Dan D. Kubin Mr. Kent Lacy Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lamoreux Ms. Adrienne Lang Mr. Doug Lawing Mr. John Lawrence Dr. & Mrs. William R. Leighton Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Mr. Lindomar Lerner Mr. & Mrs. Earl L. Lester Jr. Paula & Steve Letbetter Charles H. (Eric) & Lucy Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Philip Lewis Mr. John Liles Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lineberry Sharon Lipsky, M.D. Mr. Stephen Liso Ms. Priscilla L. List Mrs. Robin Littman Ms. Judy Liu Renee & Michael Locklar Dr. & Mrs. John Lomonaco Dr. & Mrs. Eberhard C. Lotze Mr. Alberto Lozano Mr. Elario Lozano Mr. Luis Luftop Louise & Oscar Lui Mr. & Mrs. Robin L. Lyon Mr. & Mrs. Peter MacGregor Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Mach III Mr. John Maguire Ms. Barbara Manna Mrs. D.B. Marchant Dr. & Dr. A. J. Marian Carole Nadelman Marmell Ms. Faerie Marston
Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Marten Mr. David Martin Ms. Susan Martin Steve & Linda Massie Mr. Mark Matovich Dr. Toshimatsu Matsumoto Mr. Chad Mavity Mr. R. Scott McCay Mr. & Mrs. Edward McCullough Mr. Donald McDonald Mr. George McKee Mr. & Mrs. James L. McNett Mr. Thomas J. McNulty Mr. Ernie W. McWilliams Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mehlhoff Mr. John Mell Mrs. Dorri Melvin Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. Mills Mr. John Minotti Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mireles Mr. & Mrs. Michael Mithoff Ms. Jenny Mohr & Mr. Matt Parker Mr. & Mrs. John H. Monroe Jr. Dr. & Mrs. C. Hunter Montgomery Mr. & Mrs. Jess R. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Morgan Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Morris Mr. William L. Mudry & Mrs. Vera Ochoa Ms. Joan B. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Murray Alan & Elaine Mut Mr. Gary Nagler & Mr. Cody Bowman Mr. Arturo Narro Mr. & Mrs. R. Michael Nash Mr. W. Martin Nicholas Mr. Thomas O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. John Oehler Marjory & Barry Okin Mr. & Mrs. D. D. Oldham Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ong Ms. Judith Oppenheim Mrs. Louisa Ordway Mr. & Mrs. Ken O’Rear Mr. Edgar J. Ortiz Mr. & Mrs. Enrique Ospina Mr. Austin M. O’Toole & Ms. Valerie Sherlock Ms. Jennifer Owen Linda & Jerry Paine Mr. Sunil Patel Mr. Houston K. Payne Mr. David Peavy & Mr. Stephen McCauley Mrs. Lillian Petty Mark H. & Lynn K. Pickett Mr. Timothy N. Pitts & Mrs. Kathleen Winkler Ms. Mariela Poleo Ms. Antoinette Post Mr. Thomas Power Mr. & Mrs. Andy Pratt Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Pratt Mrs. Michelle Prentice Mr. & Mrs. Richard Prinstein Doris F. Pryzant Mr. Frank Pugliese Mr. & Mrs. Larry Pyle Mr. & Mrs. William M. Ramos Ms. Sina Raouf Mr. & Mrs. Alan Rayner Mr. Frank Rea Loreta & Ronald Rea Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Reans Vicki & J.B. Reber Ralph & Becky Reed Mr. & Mrs. Ron Restrepo Mr. & Mrs. Norman T. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Phil Rice Ms. Verna Richardson Ms. Carole R. Riggs Mr. & Mrs. William F. Rike Mr. James L. Robertson
Ms. Shari Rochen Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rogers John & Peggy Romeo Mr. Daniel J. Romero Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Ross Ms. Charlotte A. Rothwell Mr. & Mrs. John E. Ryall Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Saltzberg Mr. Derek Salvino Mr. Ramon L. Sanchez Mr. James Sandoz Mr. & Mrs. Kent Savage Ms. Carrie Schadle Mr. Donald Schmuck Mrs. Jill Schroeder Sarah Beth & Paul Seifert Vance & Jane Senter Mr. Victor E. Serrato Mr. & Mrs. Paul Shack Mrs. Joanne Shaw Jonathan & Marcia Shear Art & Ellen Shelton Ms. Katherine Shen Pamela & Richard Sherry Mrs. Patricia G. Shields Mr. Barrett Sides Mr. & Mrs. Adam Siegel Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Siegele Mr. Cid Silveira Mrs. Ray Simpson Mr. & Mrs. John Slater Mr. David Smith Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Smith Mrs. Josephine Smith Mr. & Mrs. Richard Smith Mrs. Lynn Snyder Hans C. Sonneborn Mr. R. L. Stark Ms. Blanche Stastny & Ms. VIcki Shepard Mrs. Jeaneen Stastny Ms. Becky Stemper William F. Stern Mr. Myron F. Steves Mr. & Mrs. James W. Stovall Mr. & Mrs. William G. Straight Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Ms. Bobbie Sumerlin Mr. & Mrs. John L. Sutterby Ms. Rhonda J. Sweeney Dr. Jeffrey Sweterlitsch Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Symon Dr. Shahin Tavackoli Ms. Jessica Taylor Mr. & Ms. Gary Teletzke Howard Tellepsen Jr. Mr. Jasen Tenney Mr. & Mrs. Davis Thames Mrs. Marjorie Therrell Ms. Suzanne Thomas Mr. & Mrs. P. H. G. Thompson Mr. Tom Thurman Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Thurmond Ms. Mary Tilson Drs. Eric M. Timmreck & Carol W. Timmreck Mr. & Mrs. M. Dale Tingleaf Mrs. Betty Ruth Tomfohrde Mr. Tom Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. John J. Toomey Mr. Jon D. Totz Mr. Herbert Towning Mr. & Mrs. Edmunds Travis Jr. Mr. Alex Trevino Jr. Mr. James Trippett Mr. Henry Troth Dr. Robert Ulrich & Ms. June R. Russell Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Mr. & Mrs. Paolo Valente Mr. & Mrs. Dixon Van Hofwegen Mr. David Vannauker Mr. Charles Veith Dr. Allen R. Vogt Mrs. Vera Vujicic & Dr. Jovan M. Popovich Jan & Don Wagner Mr. William Walker
..................................................................................................................................... Mrs. Bedelle Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Bill Warburton Ms. Sandria Ward Mr. & Mrs. Ben Watson Leone Buyse & Michael Webster Mr. Paul Wehner Mr. & Mrs. Kane C. Weiner Mr. & Mrs. Morton Weiss Ms. Kathy J. Welch Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. White Mr. Russell White
Mr. Clint Whitlock Mrs. Amber Wilbanks Mr. Ken Williamson Miriam & Marcos Witt Mr. Gerhard R. Wittich Mr. Tony Wong Ms. Angela Wood Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Wood Miss Susan Wood Ms. Laura Woods Mrs. Michael Woolcock
Ms. Kristi Wright Mrs. Peggy J. Wylie Mr. Michael Wynhoff Frank & Michiko Yatsu Mr. Le Roy Yeager Mr. Ray Young Mr. & Mrs. Mark Yzaguirre Mr. Julio Zaccagni Ms. Carmen Zatorski Ms. Aurora Valentina Zenkl Galaz Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Zoll
Mr. Ausonio Zubiani Ms. Valerie Zuckman Anonymous (19) As of April 1, 2012
Houston Symphony Pops Patrons............................................................................................................ Principal Pops Conductor’s Circle $5,000 or More Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Marilyn Caplovitz Bert & Julie Cornelison Ms. Sara J. Devine Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Paul & Rita Morico Terry Murphree Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Nickson Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Mr. & Mrs. Allan Quiat Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ken N. Robertson Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Mr. Walter & Mrs. Maryjane Scherr David & Paula Steakley Mr. & Mrs. Leland Tate
Grand Patron Pops $2,500-$4,999
Rita & Geoffrey Bayliss Mr. & Mrs. Byron F. Dyer Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Rex & Marillyn King Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Mason Roman & Sally Reed Shirley & Marvin Rich Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. William Thweatt Mr. & Mrs. William B. Welte III Sally & Denney Wright
Pops Patron $1,500-$2,499
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dorsett Carol & Larry Fradkin Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mr. & Mrs. Alex Howard Michael & Darcy Krajewski Mr. & Mrs. Robin Lease Mr. & Mrs. Alan May Alice R. McPherson, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Raghu Narayan Mr. Anthony G. Ogden Margaret & V. Scott Pignolet Mr. & Mrs. John T. Riordan Mrs. Annetta Rose Dr. & Mr. Adrian D. Shelley Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mr. Roger Trandell Ms. Jody Verwers
Headliner $1,000-$1,499
Stanley & Martha Bair Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Banks Mr. John S. Beury Ellen Box Mr. & Ms. Bruce Buhler Mr. David Carrier The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Crassas Mr. & Mrs. Robert Creager Ms. Ann Currens Dr. Burdett S. & Mrs. Kathleen C.E. Dunbar Mr. Mark Folkes & Mr. Chris Johnston Paula & Alfred Friedlander Ms. Lillian Gaylor & Mr. Stuart Gaylor Mr. Evan B. Glick Mr. & Ms. Eric J. Gongre Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Hansen Mr. & Mrs. George A. Helland W. R. Purifoy Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Mr. Morris Rubin Ms. Beth Stegle Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Thompson Ms. Virginia Torres Ms. Amanda Tozzi Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence D. Wallace
Producer $500-$999
Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley Agbor Rev. & Mrs. H. Eldon Akerman Ms. Suan Angelo Ann B. Beaudette Mr. Billy Bray Dr. & Mrs. R. L. Brenner Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Carroll Richard & Marcia Churns Mrs. Barbora Cole Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Colton Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Cook Mr. & Mrs. George Dobbin Barbara Dokell Mr. Richard Fanning Mr. Robert Grant Mr. Garland Gray Mr. & Mrs. Dale Hardy Richard & Beverly Hickman Mr. & Mrs. John Homier Mr. Don E. Kingsley Ms. Amy Lacy Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lindgren Mr. & Mrs. Joe T. McMillan Mr. James Miner Jim & Arlene Payne
Mr. & Mrs. Venu Rao Mrs. Pamela Royal Mr. & Mrs. Tim Shaunty Norbert F. Stang James C. Stanka Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Symko Dr. & Mrs. James A. Twining Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Venus Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Viancos Dr. & Mrs. William C. Watkins Anonymous (1)
Director $250-$499
Mr. & Mrs. J. Emery Anderson Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald Mr. & Mrs. Don S. Aron Mr. Donald Bates Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Beard Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Beaty Mr. & Mrs. George Boss Mrs. Barbara Britt Mr. Jay T. Brown Mr. Frank Bryan Ms. Ruth Bryden Mr. Michael Caddell & Ms. Cynthia Chapman W. M. Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Hal Cardiff Mr. Holden Chang Mr. & Mrs. Roy Christmann Ms. Carole Colley Mr. William V. Conover Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Mr. Kim Cranford Mr. & Mrs. William L. Crothers Jr. Ms. Debbie Culp Ms. Christine De Leon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Demeter Ms. Debbie Dill Lamar & Anita Doyle Dr. & Mrs. John E. Frost Mr. John Geigel Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Giardino Mr. & Mrs. Charles Grant Mr. Gary Gross Jim & Johanna Gunther Mr. & Ms. Charles R. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hayward Ms. Erika Herlugson Dr. Jimmy F. Howell Mr. & Mrs. Paul Janish Mr. Larry January Mr. & Mrs. Bill Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Randal E. Jones Ms. Mary Keathley Dr. George S. Knapp, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Kretlow Charles C. & Patricia Kubin Mr. Tom Kvinta Mr. Richard S. Ledermann Ms. Doris M. Magee Bill & Karinne Mc Cullough Mr. & Mrs. Terry McGill Mr. & Mrs. Carrol R. McGinnis Ms. L. Dianne McGreevy Mr. & Mrs. Roger Medors Mr. & Mrs. Martin P. Meer Mr. Gerard & Mrs. Helga Meneilly Ms. Myra Moren Ms. Beth Morita Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Noland Mary Murrill North Mr. Joseph Palm Mr. David Paul Ms. Ada Perwien Mr. Jason Poon Mr. & Mrs. Roland W. Pringle Mr. Robert Schick Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Schnell Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Schroeder Mrs. Lynda G. Seaman Lois & David K. Smith Charlotte Stafford Ms. Judith Starr Mr. William Sterman & Ms. Vicki Wehmeyer Mr. Charles Stewart Mr. Joe Thayer Ms. Jane B. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Mr. Lam Tran Mr. & Mrs. Eugene N. Tulich Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Tusinski Dr. Holly & Mr. Michael Varner Mr. & Mrs. Berten Waggoner Mr. Patrick Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Don Wilton Mr. Elan Yogeswaren Anonymous (3) As of April 1, 2012
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Houston Symphony Patrons............................................................................. Foundations and Government Agencies............................................................. $50,000-$99,999
As of April 1, 2012
$1,000,000 & above * Houston Endowment
* Houston Symphony Endowment * Houston Symphony League The Wortham Foundation, Inc.
The Alkek and Williams Foundation * John P. McGovern Foundation * Ray C. Fish Foundation
$25,000-$49,999
$500,000-$999,999 * City of Houston
Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Hartford Community Foundation The Humphreys Foundation National Endowment for the Arts * Sterling-Turner Foundation
$100,000-$499,999
$10,000-$24,999
Albert & Margaret Alkek Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation * The Brown Foundation, Inc. The Cullen Foundation The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation * M. D. Anderson Foundation
* Bauer Family Foundation Carleen & Alde Fridge Foundation * The Melbern G. & Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation * George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation * Houston Symphony League Bay Area Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation * The Powell Foundation The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation * Vivian L. Smith Foundation
* The Schissler Foundation * Vaughn Foundation
$2,500-$9,999
William E. & Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Trust The Hood-Barrow Foundation Leon Jaworski Foundation William S. & Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation * Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lubrizol Foundation Mithoff Family Foundation * Kinder Morgan Foundation * Lynne Murray, Sr. Educational Foundation Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Strake Foundation * Texas Commission on the Arts $1,000-$2,499 The Mary & Thomas Graselli Endowment Foundation Huffington Foundation The Oshman Foundation State Employee Charitable Campaign * Sponsorsof Houston Symphony Education & Outreach Programs
Corporations...................................................................................................... $25,000-$49,999
As of April 1, 2012
$100,000 and above
BBVA Compass Fidelity Investments The Methodist Hospital * Spec’s Charitable Foundation United Airlines
$50,000-$99,999
American Express Philanthropic Program Baker Botts LLP * Cameron International Corporation Chevron ConocoPhillips * ExxonMobil Frost Bank * GDF SUEZ Energy North America * Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo * JPMorgan Chase * Marathon Oil Corporation * Shell Oil Company TOTAL
Andrews Kurth, LLP * The Boeing Company Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. KPMG LLP Memorial Hermann
San Jacinto College $10,000-$24,999
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Avalon Advisors, LLC * Bank of America Bank of Texas Bisso Marine Co., Inc. Bracewell & Giuliani LLP * CenterPoint Energy Cooper Industries, Inc. Crown Castle International Corp. Ernst & Young Locke Lord LLP * Macy’s Foundation Merrill Lynch Private Bank & Investment Group Metro Bank, N.A. Northern Trust The Rand Group, LLC Regions Bank Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. SPIR STAR, Ltd.
Star Furniture USI Insurance Services LLC Vinson & Elkins LLP * Wells Fargo * Wood Group
$5,000-$9,999
Beck, Redden & Secrest, LLP Bloomberg, L.L.P. * Devon Energy Corporation Google, Inc. Oceaneering International Inc. * Randalls Food Markets, Inc. Stewart Title Company * Swift Energy Company
Gift below $4,999
Air Liquide American Corporation Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp. The Blue Jeans Bar Corp EOG Resources, Inc. GEM Insurance Agencies Geste LLC Intercontinental Exchange Martha Turner Properties Marvin Consulting SEI Global Institutional Group Sense Corp. Smith, Graham & Company Williams Companies, Inc.
* Sponsorsof Houston Symphony Education & Outreach Programs
Corporate Matching Gifts........................................................................................ As of April 1, 2012
Aetna Apache Corporation Bank of America BBVA Compass Boeing BP Foundation Caterpillar 34 www.houstonsymphony.org
Chevron Chubb Group Coca-Cola ConocoPhillips Eli Lilly and Company ExxonMobil General Electric General Mills
Goldman, Sachs & Company Halliburton Hewlett-Packard Houston Endowment IBM ING Financial Services Corporation KBR Merrill Lynch
NAACO Industries, Inc. Neiman Marcus Northern Trust Occidental Petroleum Shell Oil Company Spectra Energy Williams Companies, Inc.
Legacy Society. ................................................................................................. The Legacy Society honors those who have included the Houston Symphony in their long-term estate plans through bequests, life-income gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements. Members of the Legacy Society enjoy a variety of benefits, including an annual musical event, featuring a renowned guest artist. The Houston Symphony would like to extend its deepest thanks to the members of the Legacy Society – and with their permission, we are pleased to acknowledge them below. If you would like to learn more about ways to provide for the Houston Symphony in your estate plans, please contact our Development Department at: (713) 337-8500 or plannedgiving@houstonsymphony.org. Mrs. Jan Barrow George & Betty Bashen Dorothy B. Black Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Ronald C. Borschow Joe Brazzatti Zu Broadwater Terry Ann Brown Dr. Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Eugene R. Bruns Sylvia J. Carroll William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Leslie Barry Davidson Harrison R. T. Davis Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Jean & sJack Ellis The Aubrey and Sylvia Farb Family Ginny Garrett Michael B. George Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gott Randolph Lee Groninger Mrs. Gloria Herman
Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Kenneth Hyde Mr. Brian James Drs. Rita & Blair Justice Dr. & Mrs. Ira Kaufman, M.D. John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse LeGrange Mrs. Frances E. Leland Dr. Mary R. Lewis E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Jay Marks James Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Gene McDavid Charles E. McKerley Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Miss Catherine Jane Merchant
Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Ron Mikita Katherine Taylor Mize Ione Moran Sidney Moran Sue A. Morrison and Children Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Moynihan Gretchen Anne Myers Bobbie & Arthur Newman Dave B. Nussmann Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Joan D. Osterweil Imogen “Immy” Papadopoulos Sara M. Peterson Mr. Howard Pieper Geraldine S. Priest Daniel F. Prosser Gloria & Joe Pryzant Mrs. Dana Puddy Walter M. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Sandeen Charles K. Sanders Charles King Sanders
Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Seay II Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Jule & Albert Smith Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & sAnita Stude Emily H. & David K. Terry Stephen G. Tipps Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Dr. Carlos Vallbona & Children Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. David M. Wax & Elaine Arden Cali Robert G. Weiner Geoffrey Westergaard Jennifer R. Wittman Mr. & Mrs. Bruce E. Woods Mr. & Mrs. David Wuthrich Anonymous (9) As of March 1, 2012 sDeceased
In Memoriam..................................................................................................... We honor the memory of those who in life included the Houston Symphony in their estate plans. Their thoughtfulness and generosity will continue to inspire and enrich lives for generations to come! Mr. Thomas D. Barrow W. P. Beard Mrs. H. Raymond Brannon Anthony Brigandi Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Mrs. Albert V. Caselli Lee Allen Clark Jack Ellis Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Frank R. Eyler
Helen Bess Fariss Foster Christine E. George Mrs. Marcella Levine Harris General & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Miss Ima Hogg Burke & Octavia Holman Mrs. L. F. McCollum Joan B. McKerley Monroe L. Mendelsohn Jr. Mrs. Janet Moynihan
Constantine S. Nicandros Hanni Orton Stewart Orton, Legacy Society co-founder Dr. Michael Papadopoulos Miss Louise Pearl Perkins Walter W. Sapp, Legacy Society co-founder J. Fred & Alma Laws Lunsford Schultz Ms. Jean R. Sides
Philip & Audrey Lewis Gerald & Shirley Mathews Dave B. Nussmann Nina & Peter Peropoulos Karen & Hank Rennar
Holly S. Rubbo Jennifer Klein Salyer Susan Scarrow Paige & Rich Sommer
Mr. Carl R. Cunningham Darryl & Co. DLG Research & Marketing Solutions Deville Fine Jewelry DocuData Solutions Foster Quan LLP Hilton Americas - Houston Houston Chronicle Jackson and Company JOHANNUS Organs of Texas Jim Benton of Houston LLC
The Lancaster Hotel Limb Design Martha Turner Properties Meera Buck & Associates Minuteman Press – Post Oak Music & Arts Neiman Marcus New Leaf Publishing, Inc. Nos Caves Vin PaperCity Pro/Sound
John K. & Fanny W. Stone Dorothy Barton Thomas Mrs. Harry C. Wiess Mrs. Edward Wilkerson
Chorus Endowment Donors........................................................................................... $500 or more
As of April 1, 2012
Nadene & James Crain Paul & Vickie Davis Taylor Faulkner Robert Lee Gomez
Beth Anne Weidler & Stephen M. James Jennifer Young Anonymous
In Kind Donors......................................................................................................... As of April 1, 2012
A Fare Extrodinaire Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Aztec Baker Botts L.L.P. Bergner & Johnson BKD, LLP Bright Star Classical 91.7 FM Cognetic
Rice University Saint Arnold’s Brewery Shecky’s Media, Inc. Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods United Airlines Valobra Jewelry & Antiques Vision Production Group John Wright/Texprint Yahama
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Backstage Pass. ................................................................................................. Joe & Gloria Pryzant, musician sponsors
Jennifer Owen, principal second violin
Birthplace: Joe—Houston, Texas; Gloria—Dallas, Texas
Birthplace: Canberra, Australia
Education: Joe—University of Texas, JD; Gloria—Attended Goucher College, Baltimore, MD; University of Texas, BA; University of Texas, MBA
Education: Canberra School of Music, Diploma of Music Performance; University of North Texas; Hartt School, University of Hartford, Graduate Diploma Music
Joined the Houston Symphony: Gloria—In addition to working in the Symphony’s Marketing department many years ago, I joined the Houston Symphony Board in 1996. Since then, I’ve served on the Executive Committee, and I currently chair the Board Marketing and Centennial Marketing and Visibility committees. I formerly chaired the Strategic Planning and Special Projects committees, and I’ve served on the Education and Legacy Society committees.
Joined the Houston Symphony: October 1999
Looking forward to: My singing debut with the Houston Symphony, performing Shotakovich’s Anti-formalist Rayok. The piece is a fascinating window into the times. It’s Earliest musical memory: Joe—In grade school, I went on a satirical libretto, which could class field trips to the symphony. My parents always listened to never be heard while Shostakovich classical music; I began to discover it in college. Gloria—Piano was still alive, and he apparently lessons with my teacher, Lazelle Light, in Dallas. wrote it to be performed by friends Joe and Gloria Pryzant with in his living room. It will be paired Jennifer Owen and her husband, Ed Benyon. Current listening: Joe—Bach, Bach, Bach! Gloria—I have so with the hugely successful 11th much classical music in my iPod; it is a subset of my home music colSymphony, written in the same year. I’m particularly excited to have lection, a mix of orchestral and chamber music and solo piano. The last the chance to be a part of the “crowd” in Rayok. And then we will take music I listened to on the iPod was the Sibelius Violin Concerto, played the program to Carnegie Hall—another singing debut for me!! by Cho-Liang (Jimmy) Lin. Began playing violin: I was starting second grade and was 7-yearsHobbies & interests: Joe—Travel, read, fish and watch the Houston old, turning 8. Texans during football season. Gloria—I enjoy fly-fishing, tennis, birdChoosing my profession: I have always enjoyed playing my violin with ing and hiking. We like to take our 11-year-old daughter on vacations focused on outdoor activities or seeing great cities of the world. other musicians, in chamber music and orchestra, but it was my experiences with the Canberra Youth Orchestra, which was a wonderful mix of pre-college and college students that convinced me that there was nothFavorite classical music memory: Gloria—By a stroke of luck and ing else I’d rather do. We went on a four week tour to Europe when I was my own curiosity, I was able to attend a rehearsal of the Vienna in year 11, played some of the greatest orchestral repertoire in some of Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the Kennedy Center the greatest European Concert halls, and I came home thinking, “If I can in Washington D.C.; I had never attended a rehearsal before. The do this for a living, why would I want to do anything else?” orchestra was already onstage and 20 or so people were seated in the first rows. Then, Bernstein came out with a sweater draped over his Current listening: The last thing that has been played (over and over shoulders; to my surprise, he spoke in German. It hadn’t occurred to again) in our iPod is the sound track to Oliver! The Musical. Our chilme that a conductor would need to speak various languages in order dren, Zachary and Julia, love to listen to all kinds of music, but when to communicate with the orchestra. Though my musical knowledge they find something they like, they like to play it repeatedly. So it is on was still limited at the time, there was one symphony that I listened to at breakfast time, and then again after school, and through dinner time, nonstop and knew really well, Beethoven’s 6th—the Pastoral. Suddenly, and when not actually listening and singing along with the recording, they began to play it. My jaw dropped—I was stunned to be able to we have our own renditions of “Oom Pah Pah” and “I’d Do Anything” listen to such a familiar piece. It was an experience I will never forget. in the car driving to and from school. Becoming a Musician Sponsor: It was a way to not only support the Meeting my sponsors: Gloria and Joe were actually former Houston Symphony, but to develop a relationship on another level…to get to Symphony Principal Cellist Des Hoebig’s sponsors. When I first joined the know someone who is directly involved in creating the gorgeous music orchestra, I was invited to take part in a fabulous tradition they had started that we hear at every concert. Why wouldn’t anyone want to develop involving turkey chili (post Thanksgiving) and chamber music. They would that type of relationship?! open their house to Des and his musician friends, provide fine wine and beer, and of course the turkey chili, and then the musicians would read Proud support: Joe—I enjoy the music and like supporting an important their way through whatever chamber music they had that night. Gloria and civic and cultural institution. Gloria—I cannot imagine living in Houston Joe invite their friends to hear an evening of informal chamber music per(or anywhere) without the opportunity to hear live classical orchestral formance, and we get to play some of the great chamber music repertoire music. I love to actively listen to music. It is a bridge—getting absorbed with friends in a casual setting. I played at one of these fun events, and into the music lets me forget about the challenges of everyday life; it shortly afterward, Des left the Houston Symphony for his next appointtransports me to another place. The biggest problem I have is that ment as principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra. Gloria and Joe asked when I listen to classical music, I cannot concentrate on other things to have me as their musician after Des had gone, and we have continued simultaneously. This is where I DO NOT want to multi-task…I want to the turkey chili evenings every other year, or whenever the orchestra is LISTEN to the music. There is so much going on in a piece that I like to not working during the Thanksgiving weekend. try to hear as much of it as I can. 36 www.houstonsymphony.org